Delaware And Surrounding Area

 

Beach In Delaware

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Arthur's Choice

 

RM HS, p. 0261

"June 6, 1687. to all Christian people, to whom these presents shall come... I, Arthur Taylor of Gunpowder River, in Baltimore County, Maryland, Planter, for and in consideration (*of the natural love and affection which I have and do have unto James Grear and __ his wife as also for divors---other good causes) and hereunto especially moving and do by these presents, give, grant, alein, enfoff their heirs and assigns, unto the said James Grear and Ann, his wife, their heirs and assigns forever, 75 acres of land being a part of a greater tract of 300 aces belonging to the said Arthur, and called, Arthur's Choice:, lying and being situated in Baltimore County, and on the south side of a branch of the Gunpowder River, called Bird Run, beginning at a red oak standing on the said river and running from said oak bounding with ...run...east-north- east-53 perches by a line into the woods for length 300... thence by a lined down west-south-west from the end south- south-east-east-east to line 53 perches.... his Witness: Signed Arthur x Taylor Samuel Sickelman mark A-- Thompson " (Source) *added to the previously transcribed segment from deed

BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT

(Land Records)

1661-1729

RM HS, p. 0261

MSA CE 66-1

Richardson To Day

 

Nicholas Day

Deed# RM 376

6 June 1690

Thomas and Rachel Richardson of Baltimore County

To

Nicholas Day of Anne Arundel County

John Hathaway...William Disney mentioned

RM 486

  28 May 1694

Thomas Richardson/Nicholas Day

...Bush's river...

Michael Hastings, Edward Booth mentioned

RM 489

Thomas Richardson/Nicholas Day

...Othal creek...

Illustrating Revolutionary War Map

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Extent Of Settlement 1652 Map

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Old Braddock Road

Braddock's Grave 

Old Braddock Road also here: 

Revolutionary War In The Southern Colonies

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Maps To Illustrate Wars 1812-1814

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John W. And Elizabeth Ann Porter

BALTIMORE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT

(Land Records)

1851-1852

HMF 1, p. 0019

MSA CE 62-1

17 June 1851

John W. and Elizabeth Ann Porter

Thompson's Choice

1800 United States Map

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Fort Cumberland And Vicinity

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Jerome Bonaparte Plan In Maryland

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BONAPARTE

1689 Atlantic Coast States

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Celoron's 1749 And Gist's 1750 Routes

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Moran Vs. Porter

From MDLANDREC:

Allegany County, Maryland

31 March 1906

Deed# 98-609

Lonaconing

John X. Moran, guardian, plaintiff

John Porter, et al, defendants

Allegany County, Maryland

Deed# 98-610

Barney Patent Into The Western Fork Of Gunpowder Falls

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(Family of Commodore Joshua Barney)

Deposition Regarding Thompson's Lot

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"The deposition of William Pickett aged about fifty years declares that he was present in company with his father Heathcoat Pickett and a certain Oliver Harrod (i.e., Oliver Harriot) upwards of twenty years ago and to the best of his knowledge says he heard his father and said Harrod in conversation about the land called Thompsons Lot and Darnalls Camp and the said Harrod (he was then about eighty-two---W.B.M.) told the said Pickett that a certain Coll Richardson and John Taylor who had formerly bean surveyors of Baltimore County met in the road by a run called the Duble run and one of them asked the other whose land that was where they then was and the other replied that it was Thompsons Lot if there was any such land."

John Greer was also deposed.

1782 Boundaries - Counties Of Monongalia, Yohogania And Ohio

1782 Map

1782 Boundaries of the counties of Monongalia, Yohogania and Ohio.

Truemans Acquaintance Property

...and there began Truemans Acquaintance.....

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The Maryland Historical Trust, Maryland Inventory of Historical Properties Form, included various sales of the Truemans Acquaintance property in the document that surveyed Limespring Farm.

Map Showing Approximate 1782 Boundaries

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