The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-07-15

| H'SHtStsi "heIt solhe OF their descendants ar
now living. The western section Of the pres
ent. York county, including the Conowagt
region and the section around Hanover, wa
settled nearly entirely by Germans, and man
OF them came over into this county and settle,
principally in Manchester and Myers Dis
triets, where numbers of their descendant
now live, Some few Friends or Quaker
came over from Chester county, Pa, an,
settled on Little Pipe Creek, where their des
cendants are now to be found, living on tn
fat of the land. The early emigrants TO tn
southern portion of our county wore from tn
older counties on the Western Shore, st
Mary's, Prince Georges and Anne Arundel
| Tho long dispute which existed about tn
line between the Provinces of MARYLAND ani
PENNSYLVANIA, gave the settlers on our North
ern borders great deal of trouble. Tn,
Proprietary of Maryland claimed strip of
or miles wide over the present line and Johr
Dlgges obtained n Maryland grant of GSOI
acres about Hanover. Charles Carroll oh
tanned large Maryland grant about Fairfield
or Millerstown, and the tract now goes by thu
name of the Carroll Tract. Hanover, ther
| called McAllisterstown or Kalisterstown, ant
being within the disputed territory, became
sort of refuge for disorderly characters ant
from that circumstance was called .Rogue'!
Harbor." On the final adjustment of th,
difficulty between the two great Proprietaries
by the running and marking Of the line b,
Mason and Dixon, Penn became the acknow
lodged owner, and the settlers became more
numerous, the country began to be cleared
up, tolerably good farm buildings were erect
ed and the population began to multiply.
There Is so little reverence among us foi
the homes of ancestry and such long period
has elapsed since the foundation of commu
mites and families, that It is difficult to trace
the early history Of the pioneers of our wild
erness, but we have been furnished with one
exception, and that is the history of the
Shriyer family, prepared by Judge Shriyer,
from which we learn that David Shriver, the
grand father of the older branches now living,
purchased tract Of land on Little Pipe Creek,
about the year l7G0, (although the sketch
which is otherwise so precise does not state
the timel where he erected n small Mill and
Tannery. Mr.. David Shriyer was n promi.
ment man in his day, having represented
Frederick county in the convention called ia
form Constitution Of the State of Maryland
IN ll7G, and for number of years represent.
ed the same county in the Senate and House
of Delegates
Col Joshua Gist was an early Sc ttler and
Col Gist, together with Henry Il. Warfeld.
Of Sans Creek, was elected to the House of
Delegates specially for the purpose of having
Frederick county divided into Election Dis.
tricts for the convenience of the people who
had to go all the way to Frederick to vote, cross.
ing Monocacy. Afterwards Joshua Cockey
became prominent political in this end OF
Frederick county, and represented the county
in the Senate and House of Delegates. Isaac
Shriver also represented the county several
times. VIM. Z. Farquhar and John Fisher
were also members Of the House of Delegates.
Johu Z. Cockey was also an eector of Senate
and elected to the House of Delegates the
same year that he died. Adam Shower repre-.
sented Baltimore county several sessions in
the House Of Delegates. Peter Little and
Elias Brown, of Freedom District, represent.
ed the Baltimore District in Congress between
the years 1918 aud 1928. These were the
representatives of the people of this section
Of Frederick and Baltimore counties. But
the representative man amongst men, was
born at Terra Rubra, near the Monocacy, in
what is now Middleburg District. This man
was FRANCIs SCoTT KEY, celebrated through.
out our broad land as the author of the "Star
Spargled Banner but not less celebrated in
Maryland aud the District of Columbia, where
he was best known, as good and excellent
man, an able lawyer, and particularly distin.
guished as a christian philanthrophist
ANOTHER COUNTY.
The population of this region of country
having considerably increased and the bust.
ness with the Courts of Frederick and Balti.
more with it, complaints began to be made
about the distance the people had to travel to
reach seats of justice, and the question of
having the conyenences of another county
began to be talked about, which led TO the
establishment of "The Star of Federalism" +"
newspaper at UDiontown, and at different
periods, three papers were published at West.
minister by George keating a Mr.. Burke and
George w. Sharp. The latter removed to
Frederick and established the Frederick Cih-
zen. The support Of these papers being small
they were soon discontinued Although the
project was much agitated, the people were
very much divided in opinion as to the par.
ticular mode of forming a county-some ia.
yoring division of Frederick county alone,
some in favor Of separating Baltimore county
from the City and locating the Seat of Justice
in central part of the county, whilst the in.
habitants of Westminster, which was on the
dividing line between the two counties. were
in favor of taking portion of each of the
counties and forming new one with West.
Minister as the county seat. No definite ac.
ton was had on the subject up to the year
1888, when William Cost johnson, that bril-.
liant son of Frederick county, introduced in
the House Of Delegates, and through his ex.
traordinary ability and popularity had passed
through both branches of the Legislature
bill to create
CARROLL COUNTY
with the following boundaries, beginning at
McKinstry's Mill, SANS Creek, and running
thence by straight line to PARIS Spring,
thence by the western branch of the Patapsco
to its junction with the northern branch Of the
Patapsco, thence by said stream to the bridge
Of the Baltimore and Reisterstown Turnpike,
thence by parallel line then dividing Bal.
timore and Frederick counties to the Penn.
sylvania line, thence by said line to Rock
Creek, thence by said Creek to Monocacy,
thence by said stream to the mouth of Double
Pipe Creek, thence by Pipe Creek to mouth
of Little Pipe Creek, thence up said stream
to Sans Creek, thence up SANS Creek to
place of beginning. The Law, however, was
clogged with provision requiring a majority
of the voters in each segment of the two
counties at the October election, 1888, by
viva voce vote. Soon after the passage of the
bill your Historian was invited to come to
Westminster to establish q newspaper in the
interest Of the new county. On the 2Sth of
June, 1888, the Cdrroiitoaidn was first issued
and it may be said, that even the opponents
of the measure acknowledged the zeal and
fidelity with which it was conducted, until in
four years afterwards the efforts Of its friends
were finally crowned with success. As the
fall election approached, a number of public
meetings were held for public discus,io on
the merits of the questions and general
meeting was held at Westminster, ut which
committee was appointed of persons outside
of the Gown and an able address issued which
was published in pamphlets in the English
and German languages The Committee was
composed of the following named persons,
whose names will now be recognized by many
of you as gentlemen of worth aud excellence
G. Birnie, ST., William Murray, Edward
Dorsey, Joshua G.. Gist, Thomas Hook,
John McKaleb, Archibald Dorsey, William
Sheppard, Mordecai G. Cockey, John Nc
Kellip, Joseph Steele, John Baumgartner,
Nicholas Algre, William Shaw, of H.,
George Richards, William Roberts, Freder.
ick Ritter, Samuel Gait, Nicholas Kelley,
James @. Atlee, Washington Van Bibber,
Evan l.. Crawford, Peter Hull, Philip G.
Jones, Peter Erp, Jacob Shriyer, William