The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-07-10

Bohemia Manor in order to contradict
and furnish your many readers the true
history embracing Herman's settlement,
and the original heirship of the Manor.
| | further warn our city correspondent,
also others who seek history of the Manor,
to refrain from copying from book titled
Rise of Methodism in America" princi-
pally pages 276, 977, 27s, of chapter 40.
am, dear Editor, your obedient servant,
BOHEMIA.
BOHEMIA MANOR.
AUGUSTINE HERMAN, THE FOUNDER OF THE
MANOR.
We learn that Col. Herman, of Bohemia,
Austria, was distinguished for his great
skill as navigator, and geographer; had
spent some portion of his time in Holland,
and while there became intimate with a
sect, which, from their learning, piety and
singularity of manners, had gained con-
siderable notoriety in Europe.
He was sent on several embassys to this
country, previous to his settlement, and
when this portion of Maryland became
known to him consequently obtained grant
from the Lord Proprietor Cecilious Cal
vert, the second Lord Baltimore, for four
thousand acres of the fairest portion of
this neck of land, the said grant bearing
date the 18th of August, 1862. And on the
18th of May, 1876, the said Charles grant
ed letters patents anew for six thousand
acres, and the following boundaries were
fixed and called the " Bohemia Manor"
viz: "Beginning on the south point Of
Bohemia and Elk rivers. Dividing and
from thence eastward upwards up along
the said Bohemia River near the head
thereof to Herman's branch by Appoquer
min Landing Point, and thence up the said
Easternmost Run, to the highway road and
further along the said road, northerly to
Bohemia Back Creek Run, from thence
westerly down into Elk River, and south
erly down the said Elk river to the point
on Elk and Bohemia rivers dividing, other
wise called Town Point or Cecilton, con-
tanning, by estimation, six thousand acres
of land, more or less.
On the death of Augustine Herman, it
is shown by a parchment will, containing
his original signature, dated the 9th of
September, 1854, in the presence of Ed
ward Jones, Richard Edmonds, George
Oldtield, Samuel Wheeler and Robert KEN
Bile, Esqrs. The above being citizens of
Cecil county. The said Herman, having
deceased, his will was proven on the 10th
of August, 1856, and recorded in the Pre-
rogative Office, Liber G, Folio $50 to 354.
The above office having been secretly broken
open and the Liber mutilated by tearing
out four pages, containing the above will,
also the copy on file was embezzled from
this Office. Gov. Lionel Copely and coun-
Gil, before them appeared Edward jones
and Samuel Wheeler, witnesses to the will,
and presented 4 copy which they testified,
under oath, was true copy teloniously
taken. The Gov. and council confirmed
the same by causing an act passed on the
9th Of June, 1862.
The said will conveys to his eldest son,
Ephriam George Herman, the tract called
Bohemia Manor" according to ye Char
ter Grant and Patient granted unto me by
we Rt. Hon BILE Charles, absolute Lord and
Proprietor of ye Province of Maryland,
bearing date We 4th of September, 1852,
reserving certain parts sold to Peter Bay
ard, Peter Slyter and Jasper Douekoerts,
John Mail and Arnoldus D'Lagrange.
Another deed of emplification, dated 10Th
of August the same year, which also gives
to the said Ephriam George, certain per-
sonal property, among which were the
plates of Publique Map of Virginia and
Maryland.
l most respectfully state inaccuracy Of
the estimation by the above Grant to Her.
man. The boundary of Bohemia, by a
parchment map, bearing no date, by Robt.
Armstrong; then surveyor, contained co.
100 acres; nearly one-fourth laid in the
State of Delaware.
1t appears at the time Of this survey, the
Manor was divided into sub-tracts, viz:
Labodee, $3.50 acres; Town Point tract,
$50 acres; Craig's tract, 10 acres, and
Bayard's tract, G75; leaving the heirs Of
| Herman Is, 724 acres. The latter quantity
was divided by commissioners, Col. Stephen
| Hayland, Tobias Rudolph, Isaac Grantham
and Robert Armstrong. 1t also appears
that an unequal portion was divided among
Joseph Ensor, Peter Lawson, Mary and
Edward Oldham and Charles Carroll.
THE ORIGINAL HEIRS AND DESCENDANTS.
| By memorandum of the late George
w. Oldham, Esq.'s grandfather, dated 9Th
of December, 1776, that on the death of
Ephriam George Herman, the Bohemia
Manor fell to his brother, Casparus Her
man, leaving issue Col. Ephriam Augustus
Herman, Susannah Herman and Catherine.
The said Col. Ephriam died, leaving two
daughters surviving him by his first wife,
son Ephriam by his second wife, who died
seized of Bohemia Manor.
A Peter Bouchell, we'll known for his
literary taste, married Catherine, the eld-
est daughter of Col. Ephram Augustus
Herman, and Joseph Ensor married Mary
Bouchell, daughter CT the said Peter
Bouchell, and Col. Edward Oldham mar
ried i daughter of the said Joseph Ensor,
and the late George w. Oldham, Esq, was
the only surviving son of the late Col.
Edward Oldham. Consequently the Bou-
chell family is one of the first, being con-
nected with the original inheritance Of the
Manor and is one of the first families now
residing on the Manor of the present date.
A Slyter family, of which there are gen.
erations of the present date married into