Maryland Historical Magazine, 1940, Volume 35, Issue No. 1
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/7)5^ Sc 58^1-1-/37 MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOLUME XXXV BALTIMORE 1940 CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXV PAGE PRIVATEERING FROM BALTIMORE DURING THE SPANISH AMERICAN WARS OF INDEPENDENCE. By Charles C. Griffin, 1 THE ROSE CROFT IN OLD ST. MARY'S. By Henry Chandlee Forman, .... 26 BALTIMORE, A PIONEER IN ORGANIZED BASEBALL. By John H. Lancaster, . 32 CAPTAIN C. S. WINDER'S ACCOUNT OF A BATTLE WITH THE INDIANS, ... 56 THE LAYMEN'S LIBRARIES AND THE PROVINCIAL LIBRARY. By Joseph Towne Wheeler, 60 EARLY ANNAPOLIS RECORDS. By M. L. Radoff, 74 BOOK REVIEWS, 79, 208, 303, 389 NOTES AND QUERIES, 86, 218, 310, 397 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, 91, 219, 400 LIST OF MEMBERS, 99 SIDNEY LANIER, " FAMILIAR CITIZEN OF THE TOWN." By John Saulsbury Short, 121 NEW MUNSTER. By Carl Ross McKenrick, 147 THE BALTIMORE HUNT CLUB OF 1793. By Margery Whyte, 160 IMPROVEMENTS ON COLE'S HARBOUR, 1726. By William B. Marye, .... 163 EVOLUTION OF COLONIAL MILITIA IN MARYLAND. By Louis Dow Scisco, . 166 ROBERT MILLS AND THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT IN BALTIMORE, continued, 178 FOUR GENTLEMEN OF THE NAME—THOMAS MARSH. By Emerson B. Roberts, . 190 LETTERS OF CHARLES CARROLL, BARRISTER, continued, 200 BALTIMORE AS SEEN BY MOREAU DE SAINT-MERY IN 1794. Translated and edited by Fillmore Nor fleet, 221 GEORGE BECK, AN EARLY BALTIMORE LANDSCAPE PAINTER. By J. Hall Pleasants, 241 PRESBYTERIANS OF OLD BALTIMORE. By John H. Gardner, Jr., 244 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MEMBERSHIP, 1766-1783, 256 BUCHANAN FAMILY REMINISCENCES. By Amy Hutton, 262 THE LIFE OF RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON IN MARYLAND, 1867-1898. By Francis Taylor Long, continued, 270 THE LOG OF THE ROSSIE. By John Philips Cranwell and William Bowers Crane, 287 EGERTON FAMILY. By Francis B. Culver, 292 A LOST MAN OF MARYLAND. By George T. Ness, Jr., 315 BOOKS OWNED BY MARYLANDERS, 1700-1776. By Joseph Towne Wheeler, . 336 ALEXANDER CONTEE HANSON, FEDERALIST PARTISAN. By Joseph Herman Schauinger, 354 PAGE DECATUR IN PORTRAITURE. By Charles Lee Lewis, 365 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN IMPRINTS IN THE SOCIETY'S DIELMAN COL- LECTION OF MUSIC. By William Treat Upton, 374 A TRIP TO WASHINGTON IN 1811. Contributed by Thomas W. Kemp, ... 382 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Rose Croft Mansion House (Photograph and drawings), 2(5 Dr. Bray's Proposal for a Laymen's Library (Facsimile), 61 Ownership Marks, Annapolitan Library (Facsimile), 69 Sidney Lanier, from an Ambrotype Made in 1857 121 Baltimore Hunt. Advertisements of 1793 (Facsimile) 160, 161 View of Baltimore from Howard's Park, about 1796, 221 Buchanan Homes on North Gay Street, Baltimore, 265 General Washington and His Aides, from Trumbull's " Battle of Trenton," . 315 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 Miss Eleanor S. Cohen, Gifts (1919), Historical relics and 300.00 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 F. 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 Mrs. Mary Parkhurst Hayden, Bequest 1,000.00 Jane James Cook, Gift (1937) 1,000.00 Clinton L. Riggs, Bequest (1938) 1,000.00 Sally Randolph Carter, Bequest (1939) 1,000.00 Sally Randolph Carter, Gift to establish the Marie Worthington Conrad Lehr memorial room (1939) 1,000.00 National Society Daughters of the Founders and Patriots of America for repair and binding of Carroll Papers $442.63 Calendar of Carroll Papers 250.00 MSS. Revolutionary Militia Lists 185.00 Taney Papers 25.00 Williams Papers 270.80 • 1,173.43 Judge Walter I. Dawkins, Bequest 500.00 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 Mrs. Charlotte Gilman Paul, Gift 300.00 Mrs. Arthur Robeson, Gift 200.00 Henry F. Reese, Bequest 200.00 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 Bernard C. Steiner, Gift 100.00 Jane Griffith Keys, Gift 100.00 Mrs. Katherine Bibb Stehman, Bequest 100.00 Maryland Society Daughters of the Confederacy: Contribution towards restoration of Confederate Room 50.00 Maryland Society Daughters of the Colonial Wars: Restoration of Calvert Paper No. iV/z, Exemplification of the Arms of Sir George Calvert, 1622 42.50 Josiah D. Swett, Jr. (1938) 10.00 To start a Memorial fund for his great grandfather, the late Hon. W. Hall Harris. Charles McHenry Howard, Gift (1939) 100.00 For Wm. Moss Boucher collection of Indian Relics. MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE VOL. XXXV. MARCH, 1940. No. 1. PRIVATEERING FROM BALTIMORE DURING THE SPANISH AMERICAN WARS OF INDEPENDENCE By CHARLES C GRIFFIN In 1815 those who expected the piping times of peace to bring a return to settled conditions were to be sadly disillusioned. Not only in Europe but in young America the new era was to prove a dynamic period of transition and readjustment in which older ways were molded to conform to new patterns. New forces unleashed during the previous generation continued to work, unhampered by the super- ficial political equilibrium. In the United States the transitional aspect of the times showed itself in various ways in the field of oversea trade and shipping. The shift from the established lines of colonial commerce begun during the American Revolution had by no means entirely worked itself out. Though the last years of the eighteenth century had seen the development of new commercial contacts with South America, the Orient and continental Europe, the prevalence of war during so much of the period tended to concentrate the attention of American merch- ants and shipowners on the carrying trade with Europe. The embargo of 1808 and the War of 1812 had interrupted that trade, but the coming of the general peace did not lead to its reanimation on the old level. European merchant fleets now resumed activities that war had largely prevented and under these more competitive conditions American shipping had to seek new channels with even greater energy.1 It was in this critical period of United States maritime history that privateering under the colors of the revolutionary Spanish 1 E. R. Johnson et al., History of the Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States, Washington, 1915, II, 33. 1 2 MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE American governments came into prominence and helped to reduce unemployment of ships and men for some years. This paper describes '" patriot " privateering as it was carried on in its principal center in the United States, the port of Baltimore. It deals with finance and management, recruiting of officers and crews, ships used and their equipment. Though complete quantitative statistics are not available, an attempt will be made to estimate the significance of this adven- turous and violent occupation, which in many ways seems more closely related to the days of Henry Morgan and Blackbeard than to the nineteenth century. The immediate antecedents of this activity lie in the War of 1812. It was at this time that Baltimore shipbuilders developed the " Balti- more Clipper," a fast rakish type of vessel ranging in size from less than one hundred to five hundred tons and rigged either as a schooner or brig.2 Primarily designed for speed and the ability to sail close to the wind, these ships were ideal as privateers and scores of them won their baptism of fire during the war with Great Britain.3 The rapid growth of Baltimore and its communications with the hinterland since the Revolution,4 the accumulation of capital in manufacturing and shipping,5 the lack of ties of tradition to older established lines of maritime activity, together with the more en- thusiastic attitude of Baltimore towards the War of 1812 in compari- son with the other cities of the eastern seaboard,6—all help to explain the preeminence of Baltimore in privateering. With the coming of peace in 1815 many of these vessels were laid up; and their crews, after spending their prize money, lounged about the docks—restless, discontented, and ready for almost any new venture, for peaceful employment was scarce. After a brief flurry " H. I.