Maryland Historical Magazine, 1930, Volume 25, Issue No. 4
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/v\sA sc 58^f-1 -\co Edited by J. HALL PLEASANTS, M. D. Ip-ublished by authority of the State VOLUME XLVI (Assembly Series, Volume 22) PEOOEEMNGS AND ACTS OF THE ASSEMBLY, 1748-51. 'IMS volume of the arduves is now ready for distribution. The attention of members of the Society who do not now receive the Archives is called to the liberal provision made by the Legislature, which permits the Society to furnish to its own members copies of the volumes, as they are published from year to year, at the mere cost of paper, presswork, and binding. This cost is at present fixed at one dollar, at which price members of the Society may obtain one copy of each volume published. For additional copies, a price of three dollars is charged. The European background upon which American affairs were projected when the Assembly met in session in 1748, found Great Britain still engaged with Prance in what in the colonies was called King George's War, but when the Assembly met in 1749, Governor Ogle was able to congratulate the province upon the restoration of peace, which had been effected by the recently signed treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. Samuel Ogle, who had entered upon his third term as Governor in 1746, continued to serve in that capacity during the period covered by this volume, and died in office. May 3rd, 1752. He was an excellent governor, and the controversies which took place between him and the members of the Lower House, who were of the Country, or anti-Proprietary party, at the time usually in a slight majority in this body, were due rather to the rising spirit of independence then developing in the colonies, than to any feeling of ill will towards the Governor himself, who was tactful and personally popular. As the General Assembly did not meet in 1752 until after Ogle's death, this volume completes the story of the activities of the Assembly during his last administration. The Country party was continually at loggerheads with the Proprietary party as represented by the Governor, the Upper House and the followers of the Proprietary in the Lower House, usually in the minority here. Charles, the fifth Lord Baltimore, died, April 24th. 1751, and his son Frederick, the sixth and last Lord, then a minor, became Proprietary. With Frederick's delinquencies later volumes will deal. BENEFACTORS AND CONTRIBUTORS TO THE FUNDS OF THE SOCIETY Mrs. Mary Washington Keyset, Gift of the Buildings and grounds of the Society (1916). George Peabody, Gift (1866) $20,000.00 J. Wilson Leakin, Bequest (1923), Historical relics and 10,000.00 Drayton Meade Hite, Gift (1919) 1,000.00 and Bequest (1923) 6,000.00 Mrs. Drayton Meade Hite, Bequest (1927) 4,000.00 Mendes Cohen, Bequest (1915) 5,000.00 Mrs. Caroline J. Lytle (1928) 5,000,00 Van Lear Black, Gift 1,500.00 Mias Eleanor S. Cohen, Gifts (1919 Historical relics and $300, Memorial to her parents, Israel and Cecilia E. Cohen (1926) 1,000.00 Miss Susan Dobbin Leakin 1924), Preparation of J. Wilson Leakin room and contribution to its contents. Charles Exley Calvert, Gift 1,150.00 Mrs. Thomas B. Gresham, Bequest (1926) 1,200.00 Isaac Henry Ford, Bequest (1916) 1,000.00 W. Hall Harris, Gift 1,000.00 Isaac P. Nicholson, Gift (1909) 1,000.00 Isaac Tyson Norris, Gift (1916) 1,000.00 J. Henry Stickney, Bequest (1892) 1,000.00 Mrs. Emilie McKim Reed, Bequest (1926) 1,000.00 Henry Stockbridge, Gift (1920) 1,000.00 DeCourcy W. Thorn, Gift 1,000.00 Mrs. DeCourcy W. Thorn, Gift 1,000.00 W. G. Baker, Gift 500.00 Mrs. W. Hall Harris, Gift 500.00 Adelaide S. Wilson, Gift 500.00 J. Appleton Wilson, Gift 500.00 William Power Wilson, Gift 500.00 Mrs. Rebecca Lanier King, Bequest (1928) 500.00 McHenry Howard, Gift 333.34 Charles McHenry Howard, Gift 333.33 Elizabeth Gray Howard, Gift 333.33 Simon Dalsheimer, Gift 300.00 Miles White, Jr., Gift 300.00 Miss Nellie Williams, Gift $ 200.00 Charles C. Homer, Jr., Gift 150.00 Raphael Semmes, Gifts 140.00 Mrs. George F. Libby, Gifts 125.00 Samuel M. Wilson, Gift 120.00 Louis H. Dielman, Gift 100.00 R. C. Hoffman, Gift 100.00 Henry P. Hynson, Gift 100.00 William Ingle, Gift 100.00 Mrs. Rebecca Littlejohn, Gift 100.00 John H. Morgan, Gift 100.00 Lawrence J. Morris, Life Membership 100.00 Mrs. Charlotte Gilman Paul, Gift 100.00 Mrs. Mary B. Redwood, Life Membership 100.00 Bernard C. Steiner, Gift 100.00 Edwin Warfield, Jr., Gift 75.00 Mrs. Emma U. Warfield, Gift 75.00 Blanchard Randall, Gift 43.42 Ferd. Bernheimer, Gift 30.00 Walter I. Dawkins, Gift 25.00 William J. Donnelly, Gift 25.00 A. E. Duncan, Gift 25.00 Mrs. E. Edmunds Foster, Gift 25.00 John W. Marshall, Gift 25.00 John Parker, Gift 25.00 Daniel Annan, Gift 20.00 C. C. Shriver, Gift 20.00 Mrs. Francis T. Redwood, Gift 16.00 Mrs. John H. Sherburne, Gift 10.00 Mrs. Annie Leakin Sioussat, Gift 10.00 Samuel Grafton Duvall, Gift 10.00 William B. Levy, Gift 5.00 Philip Francis Trippe, Gift 5.00 THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED 1843. H. IBVINK KETSEE MEMOEIAL BUILDINO, 201 W. MONUMENT STREET, BAI/TIMOEE. OFFICERS. President, W. HALL HARRIS. Vioe-Presidents, DBCOURCY W. THOM, CLINTON L. RIGGS, RICHARD M. DUVALL. Corresponding Secretary, Recording Secretary, JAMES E. HANCOCK. GEORGE L. RADCLIFPE. Treasurer, HEYWARD E. BOYCE. THE COUNCIL. THE GENEEAL OFFICERS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF STANDING COMMITTEES; JESSE N. BOWEN, Representing the Trustees of the Athenaeum. J. HALL PLEASANTS, " Committee on Publication. HENRY J. BERKLEY, M. D., " Committee on the Library. WILLIAM INGLE, " Committee on Finance. JAMES D. IGLEHART, " Committee on Membership. LAURENCE H. POWLER, " Committee on the Gallery. JOHN L. SANPORD, " Committee on Addresses. WILLIAM B. MARYE, " Committee on Genealogy. CONTENTS. PAGE THE PLAOE-NAMES OF BALTIMORE AND HABPOBD COTJNUES. By William Bose Marye, 321 THE OLD SENATE CHAMBEB. By DeCourcy W. Thorn, .... 365 WINCHESTER—OWENS—OWINGS—PMCB, AND AIMED FAMILIES. By Ferdinand B. Foche, 385 THE LINTHICUM FAMILY (CORRECTIONS), 408 PROCEEDINGS or THE SOCIETY, 410 BOOKS EECEIVED, 414 Committee on Publications SAMUEL K. DENNIS, Chairman JOHN M. VINCENT, J. HALL PLEASANTS. LOUIS H. DIELMAN, Editor. MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE VOL. XXV. DECEMBER, 1930. No. 4. THE PLACE-NAMES OF BALTIMOEE AND HAEFORD COUNTIES. BY WILLIAM BOSE MAETB. Of the great number of place-names which, during the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries, became attached to rivers, creeks, places and localities within the region bounded by the Susquehanna, the Patapsco and the Chesapeake Bay, in Mary- land, many, including some of the oldest, are in common use today. Others have become obsolete, being superceded, as a rule, by names of more recent origin, while old records testify clearly as to their former use. Still others, doubtless, being lost to memory and nowhere recorded, will never be known. There are instances of a solitary record of an obsolete and for- gotten name; and there are cases of names which are found re- corded in only one surviving record but are still known and used by a very few ageing persons. It is therefore hardly to be questioned that numbers of names, some picturesque, if not his- torical, have perished. Practically all the prehistoric place-names of this region are lost to our knowledge. If we may except Patapsco (which appears to have been unknown to Captain John Smith and may, therefore, conceivably, have come into use since his day), we can not except Susquehanna, a name which, apparently, did not belong to the river, but was a name given to a tribe by other tribes, there remain only one or two queer names the Indian 321 , 322 MAETLAND HISTOEICAL MAGAZINE. origin of which, if anyone be disposed to claim it, is to say the least, doubtful. The lack of Indian place-names is explained when we com- pare the part of Maryland which is under consideration with those parts where these names are present. Wherever we find Indian names, there history tells us the early colonists came into contact with more or less populous and permanent " towns " occupied by Indians who practiced the arts of agriculture. In historical times no such " towns " seem to have existed in those parta of Baltimore County where the first settlers established themselves. Still, there were, beyond reasonable doubt, at the time when the region was colonized, scattered habitations of Indians within it, and to this fact numbers of place-names 1 themselves appear to bear witness; but the contacts between the settlers and the few Indians dwelling in the country were probably fleeting and generally unfriendly, with the result that Indian place-names, if heard, were seldom, if ever, adopted. By far the greater number of recorded place-names originated with the early settlers or with their immediate descendants; but there is a class of names the origin of which is somewhat more remote. Names of this class antedate the settlement of the country and must be attributed to explorers, traders or adven- turers in the upper Bay before the year 1658. These rare names represent fragments of their nomenclature of important landmarks. 11 refer to such names as Indian Cabin Branch, Indian Cabin Cove, Indian Cabin Neck, The Indian Quarter, The Indian Old Fields, Shawan Cabin Branch, The Indian Port Branch and Indian Will's Cabin Branch. There are, besides, other sources of evidence to show that the habitations of Indians were not lacking in Baltimore County in the earlier historical period.