page_title: Richard Snowden (ironmaster)
section_title: Foundation
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Snowden (ironmaster) / Foundation
caption_attribution_description: Map of Colonial Maryland from: George Alsop, A land-Skip of the Province of Mary land, 1666 [1869], in Gowan's Bibliotheca Americana
context_page_description: Richard Snowden was the grandson of Richard Snowden Sr, one of Maryland's early colonists, who arrived in 1658. By Articles of Agreement dated July 5, 1705, Snowden and four other partners – Joseph Cowman, Edmund Jenings, John Galloway, and John Prichard – founded the Patuxent Iron Works on the site of Maryland's oldest iron forge. Together they founded one of Maryland's first industries, and settled the land now known as Laurel and Sandy Spring, Maryland.
context_section_description: On the January 11, 1669, 500 acres (2.0 km²) of land called "Iron Mine" were patented from George Yate to Richard Snowden Sr. and Thomas Linthicum, "farmers", for 11,000 lb (5,000 kg) of tobacco. Linthicum sold this land to Snowden Sr. in 1675. In 1685 King Charles (via Lord Baltimore) granted Richard Snowden Sr. 1,976 acres (8.00 km²) of land on the Patuxent River (Robinhood's Forest). On this land, the Quaker Richard Snowden Sr. built the plantation "Birmingham Manor".
  On August 14, 1688, Snowden Sr. acquired 800 acres (3.2 km²) called Godwell. On April 19, 1715, Snowden Sr. purchased 300 acres (1.2 km²) called "Burgess Choice". On December 10, 1715, 1,000 acres (4.0 km²) of land known as "Snowden's Manor" were surveyed for Snowden Sr. near Ashton. Altogether, Richard Snowden Sr. amassed an estate worth over 2,000 pounds by 1715.
  In 1719, Richard Snowden Jr. was granted 10,000 acres (40 km²) in Maryland.
caption: 1666 view of Maryland waterways
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