History of Harford Co., Md on CD

HISTORY OF HARFORD COUNTY

MARYLAND FROM 1608

(THE YEAR OF SMITH'S EXPEDITION)

TO THE CLOSE OF THE WAR OF 1812

BY WALTER W. PRESTON, A. M.

BEL AIR, MARYLAND

Originally Published Baltimore, 1901


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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
The First View . . . Smith Comes to the Susquehanna from
Virginia . . . Maps the Shore and gives an account of the
Indians . . . Giant Indian seen near Stafford . . . Pool's
Island . . . Smith's Falls . . . Climate . . . Willoughby or Bush
River . . . Clayborne . . . Palmer's Island . . . Col. Nathaniel
Utie . . . Treaty with the Indians . . . Harford a District of
Baltimore County.
CHAPTER II
Early Settlements . . . Thomas Thurston . . . Old houses . . . Some
tracts of Land of Jacob Giles, Col. White, Aquila Paca, Daniel Scott,
James Preston, John Stump, David Bisset, Samuel Gover, John Hall, Wm.
Bradford, Wm. McComas, John McComas.
CHAPTER III.
Old Court Houses . . . Maryland Colony and England Remote from events
of Mother Country . . . County Seat on Bush River . . . Some Old
Minutes of Court . . . Wm. Osborne . . . County Seat Removed to
Gunpowder . . . To Joppa . . . Growth and Decline of Joppa . . .
Baltimore on the Patapsco.
CHAPTER IV.
Customs and Manners prior to Revolution . . . Slavery . . . Primitive
Conditions . . . The Lawyer . . . Doctor . . . Schoolmaster . . .
Life of a Physician before the Revolution . . . Domestic Customs.
CHAPTER V.
Organization of Harford County . . . Inconvenience on account of
Removal of County Seat to Baltimore . . . Petition for New
County. . . Henry Harford . . . Act for Formation of new County.
CHAPTER VI.
Organization of County, continued . . . First Records Swearing in
Lord Justices . . . Appointment of Clerk, Sheriff and State's
Attorney . . . Division of County into Hundreds, and Appointment of
Constables . . . . First Grand Jury. . . First Petit jury . . .
County Seat at Harford Town or Bush.
CHAPTER VII.
Bel Air Chosen County Seat . . . Other Places Voted for . . .
Another Election called . . . Scott's Old Field or Bel Air wins
again . . . Aquila Scott of James Conveys land in Bel Air to
County . . . Court House at Bel Air . . . Orders for Opening Roads,
&c . . . . Harford the Chief Section of Baltimore County . . . First
two County Seats in Harford.
CHAPTER VIII.
Selections from Old Records . . . Tavern Licenses . . . Grand and
Petit Juries . . . Luther Martin admitted to Practice at Harford
Bar . . . Tavern Rates . . . Road Supervisors . . . Court House at
Bel Air Occupied . . . First Judges . . . Description of
Building . . . Burning of Old Court House and Construction of Present
Building.
CHAPTER IX.
Old Records, continued . . . Wm. Pinkney Locates at Bel Air . . .
Basis of Assessment . Tax rate . . . Members of the Bar in 1796 . . .
Juries . Robert Amos, Jr., Sheriff. . . Judges of Election . . .
John Lee Gibson resigns as Clerk . Henry Dorsey of Edward Appointed
Clerk.
CHAPTER X.
Signs of the Revolution . . . Importation Act . . . Stamp Act ... The
Peggy Stewart . . . The American Association
Concord and Lexington ... Annapolis Convention of June, 1774 . . .
Harford Representatives . . Convention at Bush . . .
Resolutions . . . Association of the Freemen of Maryland.
CHAPTER XI.
Harford in the Revolution . . . People of New County alive to Public
Affairs . . . Favorable Location of County Seat at Bush . . . Great
Men Passing Along . . . Harford Declaration of Popular Rights.
CHAPTER XII.
The Revolution Continued... Enrollment of County Militia . . . The
Flying Camp . . . Alex. Lawson Smith's Harford Company at the Battle
of Fort Washington.
CHAPTER XIII.
Lafayette's Expedition through Harford, 1781 ... Officers of the
Command . . . Lafayette Spends Night at House of Col. James Rigby,
near Darlington . . . Alex. Hamilton . . . Proclamation Against
Desertion . . . Aquila Deaver . . . An Anecdote of the
Expedition . . . Captains Greme and Gimat.
CHAPTER XIV.
Old Churches . . . Spesutie . . . The Catholic Church. Bethel.
CHAPTER XV.
Old Churches Continued ... Presbyterian Church at Churchville . . .
Cokesbury Methodist College and Church . . . Harford Baptist
Church . . . The Friends in Harford.
CHAPTER XVI
Biographical‑William Paca . . . Dr. John Archer . . . Col. Thomas
White . . . Benj. Bradford Norris.
CHAPTER XVII.
Biographical Continued.
Rev. John Coleman . . . William Bradford . . . John Stump, of
Stafford . . . William Smithson . . . Aquila Hall William
Morgan . . . Col. Ignatius Wheeler . . . Col. John Streett.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The War of 1812 . . . National Conditions . . . Weak Federal
Government . . . Valuable Assistance from France. . . Fort
McHenry . . . North Point . . . Captain John A. Webster, Col. Wm.
Smith and Col. John Streett, all of Harford, Assist in the Defense of
Baltimore . . Sketch of Capt. Webster . . . British Attack Upon Havre
de Grace . . . John O'Neill . . . Col. Smith's Forty‑second Regiment.
CHAPTER XIX.
Havre de Grace .... Origin of the Name . . . Early Description . . .
Organization as a Town . . . First Town Commissioners . . .
Proceedings . . . Returns of Election.
CHAPTER XX.
Miscellaneous‑
Harford Pensioners from the Revolution . . . Solicitors of
Subscription to Association of Freemen of Maryland . . . Early Iron
Works . . . Gov. Paca and Gov. Bradford . . . Harford Militia
Companies ... Harford Statistics, 1798 Court Officers and Juries,
1800 . . . Same, 1803‑1806 Nuncupative Will of Joseph Butler,
Lieutenant in Smallwood's Regiment, Killed at Battle of Long
Island . . . Marriage Certificate of John Worthington and Priscilla
Wilson, 1769 . . . My Lady's Manor ... Bel Air Academy.
APPENDIX.
Minutes of Harford Revolutionary Committees . . . Members of House of
Delegates from Harford . . . Sheriffs . . Members of Congress . . .
Registers of Wills . . . Clerks of Circuit Court . . Constitutional
Conventions.

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