The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-03-24


ginia, where he saw the governor. A dis
pute about boundaries was at that time
| fragrant between Maryland and Virginia
and Herman being man of science was
employed by the authorities of Maryland
to make map of their province The
map was sent to England, and engraved
by W. Faithorne, the most famous engrav'
err of the day. A copy was shown to the
King of England, who pronounced it the
best map he had ever seen. Two copies
of the map are known to be extant, o.
which one is preserved in the Greenvillt
Library, one Of the royal libraries of Eng
land, and with it an engraved portrait O
Mr.. Herman, said to be an excellent speci
men of the art of engraving for that day
and the other is among the State archives
at Richmond, Virginia. The map has
lately been brought into notice, by the
revival of the boundary dispute between
Maryland and Virginia, the Maryland Com
missioner claiming the lines laid down by
Herman, and the Virginians contestins
its correctness.
Herman received from Lord Baltimore
the grant of six thousand acres of land
afterwards increased and erected into 6
|
mans native country. Bohemia Rivers
great and little, Port Herman and St
Augustine are the local landmarks thai
preserve the traces of this enterprising and
adventurous man in the borders of Ceci
and Kent counties, Maryland.
Herman became the personal friend and
devoted adherent of Lord Baltimore, who
while in the colony spent most Of his time
at Herrman's house; and he was present
with Lord Baltimore and William Penn
at their first conference about the grant
and boundary of Delaware and Pennsylva.
MIA cotcrminous with Maryland.
Herman made treaty with the Susque-
hanna Indians on the island of his quon,
dam antagonist, Col. Ute, which is the
last Of his public acts recorded. One OF
his sons remained in New York, and a
payment is found recorded to him in COM
pensation for the destruction of his house
to make room for the ramparts of Fort
Orange. A letter is quoted from another
son, who followed him to Maryland, an
nouncing his intention to depart thence to
the Barbados, on account of the persecu-
| tion with which he was threatened in con-
sequence of his being Protestant, which
reads quecrly, since so much has been said
OF the liberation enjoined and practsed by
Lord Baltimore and his government. One
of the daughters of Herman married a
| Quaker refugee from Boston, named Ship
pen, who is honorably represented at the
present day by a respectable family in
Philadelphia. Another daughter of Herr
man married Matthias Van der Heyden,
of New York, (his mother was Schuyler
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naturalized by act of the Legislature about
1910. Van der Heyden left numerous
progeny in Maryland, One of his daugh-
tiers, named Ariana whom tradition asserts
to have possessed uncommon personal at
fractions, was three times married first
to Thomas Bordley, of Bordley Hall, York
shire, England, Attorney General of the
province of Maryland; second to Mr.. Fris-
by, Of Maryland, and lastly to Mr.. Edmund
Jennings, of an ancient and honorable
family in Yorkshire, England. She left
issue by each one of these marriages. Her
son John Beal Bordley was the last of the
Admiralty Judges under the provincial
government. He was twice married. His
first wife was a daughter of Samuel Chew
and sister of Mrs. William Paca, (Paca
was one of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence Mrs. Samuel Chew was
Henrietta Maria Lloyd, daughter of Phile-
man Lloyd, and of Henrietta Maria Neale
who derived her name from her royal god
mother, the queen of the unfortunate
Charles |. of England, and daughter of
Henry w. of France. Mr.. Samuel Chew
was fourth in descent from John Chew, in
whose favor patent for 1000 acres of
land was recorded, for building the first
stone house at jamestown, Virginia, which
is yet to be seen among the State papers
at Richmond. The second wife of Judge
Bordlcy was Mrs. Mifllin, (nee Fishbourne,
of Philadelphia Eer son, Thomas Milf
fin, was Major General in the army of
the Revolution, President of Congress
when Washington resigned his commission
as COMMUNICATIVE Chief, and Governor of
Pennsylvania. The portrait of Bordlcy
by Pealc is in the New York Historical
Library, No. 47G.
Edmund Jennings, second, the son of
Ariana Van der IIeyden by her second
husband, was the last royal governor of
Virginia but one, and after the war of the
Revolution a member of the British en-
bassy in this country. He is honorably
mentioned in the memoirs of Mr.. John
Adams, recently published. Ariana Jen-
nings, the daughter of Ariana Van der
Heyden and Edmund Jennings, married
John Randolph, the second son of Sir
John Randolph, of Shockoe, Attorney
General of Virginia. John Randolph was
the brother of Peyton Randolph, who was
Attorney General and Governor of Vir-
ginia and the first President of the Cont
mental Congress; aud Edmund Randolph,
son of John Randolph and grandson of
Ariana Van der Heyden, was member of
Washington's military family during the
| war, and afterwards of his cabinet. A
cloud rests on the memory of this distin-
guished descendant of the Bohemian
exile,t but nothing obscures the long and
honorable record of Augustin Herman.
GREYsTEEL.
*This map has been reproduced, and is fol-
sale by Mr. j. w. Randolph, of Richmond, Va
A copy of the portrait of Mr.. Herman is en-
grayed upon the map.
| tit is just to the memory of Edmund Ran
| dolph to say that Mr.. Jefferson totally exone
rates him from the charge of official miscon
Duct although it is undoubtedly true that Gen
eral Washington was strongly prcjudicet
| against him.
Centennial Notes.
Fifty thousand dollars is the price to bt
paid for the sweeping out of the Centen
NAL buildings.
Fifteen thousand square feet of space OF
the horticultural ground will be used fol
the exhibition of750 different specimen:
of trees and shrubs.
The steamship Braunschweig brought
TO Baltimore 500 cases, comprising severa