The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-11-03
For The Cecil Wing.
Historical Researches that Quilp Made
as Bohemian.
CHAPTER VIII.

posed " that three rdtaondL persons - should
be appointed from each province to meet at
a certain specified time. about the middle,
between the Chesapeake Bay and South
river, at point which they described as
ga hill lying to the head of Sassafras river
and another river coming from our river
almost meet together"
Governor Fendall inquired with great
anxiety of the ambassadors about the noun
tain at which the proposed meeting was to
be held. There is no doubt that it was
either Grey's. Chestnut, or Iron Hill, most
probably the latter, for they said they had
crossed it on their journey to the Chesa-
peake Bay. They no doubt mistook the
COW run for the head waters of the Sassa-
fras river. There were no settlements at
that time in Maryland except on Watson's
Island, north of the Elk river, and the
country was an UNEMPLOYED wilderness.
1t is probable this was the first time that
Herman visited Maryland. He went ON to
Virginia when the negotiations with the
authorities of Maryland were ended, and it
is probable that he consulted the authori-
ties there in reference TO the map which he
shortly afterwards made, for the map en-
braces the whole of that province as it was
then defined, as well as the whole of Mary
land. Many years afterwards, and only a
short time before his death, he sent extracts
to the Governor and Council Of Maryland
from journal that he kept in which he
refers to conversation or agreement be-
tween himself and Lord Baltimore in Eng
land. These extracts are interesting, as
! showing him to be the originator and
founder of Cecil county. The following
one we copied from the ancient council
record for the year 1851. 1t is as follows:
"And because there was an imaginary sur
vey recorded the 18th of September, 1863,
for Philip Calvert Esq, of 200 acres on
the point between Elk river and Oppoquer-
mine river now Bohemia river. adherent
or includent to Bohemia Manor, his Honor
did let it fall to the said Augustine Her
man, who, having proposed to his Lord
ship in England the erecting of a town
thereon, his Lordship promised all reason
able pricIeges to him, the said L4ugustine
Herman, and first undertaking (the building
of the town before mentioned, 1riIing to hare
| the torn called CecHtoun and the county Cecil
county, sending ito that purpose) in a char
| ter, as u foundation to all other toscaships IN
this pr0cince, Remaining IN the office under
the great seal datsd january 24M, 1861"
| which charter above referred to was issued
more than a year before Herman received
the first patent for Bohemia Manor. This
is the first reference to Cecil county in the
early records of the province.
1t is probable that the visit of Angus
| tine Herman to Virginia was upon business
| connected with his map, though he gives
another reason in his journal, and that he
was employed in obtaining information re
| speeding the provinces of Maryland and Nir
gina, and in making the map during the
| interval between 1863 and 1861 for he OBJ
tanned his first patent for Bohemia Manor
on the 10Th of June, 1862. and the consd
| Grafton named in the patent is the making
of the map, which, at that time, no doubt
was complete, though it was not published
| till 1913.
This patent is legal as well as a literary
curiosity. After greeting all persons to
whom it should come, in the name of the
Lord God Everlasting, and referring to the
conditions of plantations, which were
certain regulations in regard to the terms
upon which titles to plantations could be
acquired in the province it grants unto
Augustine Herman all that tract of land
called Bohemia Manor, lying on the east
side of Chesapeake Bay and on the west
side of a river in the said bay, called Elk
| river, on the northermost side of creek
in the said river called Herman's creek.
| Beginning at the easternmost bound tree of
the land of Philip Calvert, Esq, and run
ming south by east up the said creek of
| length of two thousand perches to marked
oak standing by cove called Herman's
cove, and from the said oak running north
east for the length of three hundred and
twenty perches, till it intersects parallel
line running west for the length of two
thousand perches, to the said land of Philip
Calvert, Esq. On the west with the said
land, on the south with the said creek, on
the east with the said lne on the north
with the said parallel, containing and now
| laid out for four thousand acres more or
less, together with all royalties or priv
leges thereunto belonging (royal mines ex-
cepted)."
This manor of Bohemia was to be holden
of 90 Ceclias Lord Baron of Baltimore, and
of his heirs, as of his manor, of St. Maries,
in free and common socage by fealty only
for all manner of service yielding and pay
ing therefor yearly unto us and our heirs,
at our receipt at Saint Maries, at the two
most usual feasts in the year, viz. at the
feast of the annunciation of the Blessed
| Virgin Mary, and at the feast of St. Michael,
the archangel, by even and equal portions,
the rent of four pounds sterling in silver
or gold or the full value thereof, in such
commodities as we or our heirs shall accept
in discharge thereof
This document was given at St. Mares,
as before remarked, on the 10Th day of June,
in the thirtieth year CT Lord Baltmores
dominion, A. D., 1862, and witnessed by
his dear son and heir, Charles Calvert,
ESD, his Lieutenant General of his said
province of Maryland. The reader will
observe that the land of Philip Calvert is
spoken of in this patent, but is not in
cluded in Bohemia Manor. 1t must not be
forgotten that, though it is called Calvert's
land it was already granted to Herman BY
the charter for Cecilton, before mentioned in
the extract from his Journal Calvert had
probably relngushed his claim to it, or it
may have, in some way, reverted to the
Lord Proprietary. 1t certainly, as Herman
states, was always considered part of
Bohemia Manor. BY patent bearing the
same date and for the same consideration
mentioned in the other patent tthe making
of {. map of the province), Herman became
the owner and proprietor of Little Bohemia,