The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-12-08
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leVe, and at one time, about 1901, lived
among the Dutch at New Castle. At this
time he lived some where along St. Georges
creek, probably on the north side of it, fol
the Dutch claimed that he was under theil
jurisdiction. At this time, and for many
years afterwards, there was a cart road
leading from where Chesapeake City now
stands past his house to the Delaware river,
near Delaware City or Port Penn. This
road was called, in the old writings of that
period, Jacob Young's cart road. We be-
lieve this Jacob Young was The same man
who was charged, some years before, with
seducing the wife of Lears, the Swedish
priest at New Castle, but it was afterwards
proved that, at the time he and Mrs Lears
absconded, the reverend gentleman had
broken open Ioung's trunk with an AK dur
ing the time he was stopping at his house,
and most likely he had not used his wife as
we'll as he should have done, and the court
I fined him heavily for assuming to exercs g
judicial as well as plestly functions. The
court were of the opinion that the fugi-
| tives had fled to Maryland. and sent an ex-
press there to search for them. The priest
did not take the loss of his wife very much
| to heart, for few weeks after she ran away
with Young, he married himself to another
| ao0n1dn, which action called down upon him
the displeasure of the government, which
censured him severely, not SO much for
performing his own marriage ceremony as
for doing SO on Sun day.
! In 1880 the Governor of Delaware issued
| a warrant to Sheriff Cantwell of New Cas-
| tie, the ancestor of the Cantwells of Cecil
county, "requiring him to summon Jacob
Young to appear personally before the Gov
ernor and council of New York, to answer
for presuming to treat with the Indians in
this government without any authority
We infer from this that the treaty was
made, and that Jacob Young lived on Her
mans Manor of Augustine, which at that
time, and for many years afterwards, was
claimed by both Marylan and Delaware.
| We find that the life of Augustine Her
man was no exception to the general rule
and that in his case the accumulation of
wealth brought an accumulation of care
and trouble with it. Though he had been
successful in acquiring a very large estate,
and held it by an indisputable title from
the Lord Proprietor of the province, yet
notw outstanding all this, he was put to
much trouble to keep covetous people from
encroaching upon his dominion and depriv
ing him of part of it. On the second day of
November, 1850, he presented petition to
the Governor and council of the province,
in which he recites that one " George Hol.
land, with other envious persons. had COW
eted, and were gone about privately to take
away part of his children's land in Bohe-
mia upon false allegations and untrue
bounds" These false allegations appear
to have been, that the meets and bounds of
Bohemia Manor and Bohemia Middle Neck
inclosed great many more acres of land
than the patents called for. The petition
recites that he had obtained a warrant for
a resurvey. and that the deputy surveyor,
one Joseph Chew, after he had surveyed
| the land and made plot of it, for which
Herman paid him nineteen pounds of to-
bacco, had run away; that he had kept a
plot himself which he had returned to the
office of Mr.. Painter, who, it would seem,
was at that time in charge of the Survey
or's Generals office, and who had promised
to send him new patent in consideration
of six hundred acres of land which he had
relinquished to him for it. The petition
refers to several other persons, and closes
by stating that the petitioner GO had no other
refuge left than his Lordship's favor, and
that he therefore prayed his Lordship's
goodness would be pleased to grant, and
command that his patent might be issued
forthwith without any longer delay" and
that he had been at "great charges and
trouble about it already, and hoped his
Lordship would not suffer his estate to be
consumed by un ust officers that aeork By
the rule Of right and acrong for a pripate
gain." 1t was thereupon :. ordered by the
council that their clerk notify Mr.. Painter
to produce the papers in his Office, and
that a letter be sent to the petitioner, &C
quainting him Herewith, and desiring him
to transmit the certificate and plots, which
he had by him, to We clerk of ye council at
We city of st. Maries, with all expedition,
who is to present the same to this board for
perusal, when his Lordship will give further
answer to the prayer of the petitioner.
These proceedings of the council did not
produce the effect that Herman desired they
should produce. Probably the council, like
MANY that have succeeded it, was tram
meled by red tape, and was more concerned
about d" how not to do it " than it was about
how to settle the dispute and end the diff
Guilty between Herman and his grasping
and covetous neighbors, for we find that
he sent the following letter, among several
other letters and papers, to some one, proba
bly, the clerk of the council, and that they
produced and read it at a meeting of the
council held at St. Maries, on the 10Th day
of August, 1851, nine months after he had
presented the petition before referred to.
This letter is valuable, as showing the pecu
liar style of phraseology that prevailed at
the time it was written, and we copy it YER
batim, thinking it will be interesting to the
many descendants of the illustrious writer
who now reside in the county of which he
was the father and founder:
RI. Hon BILE Ny Lard: My weakness
and hindrance in my domestic affairs, hav-
ing no overseer, makes me defer my com
ing down to your Lordship's until some
time in September next. Meanwhile, John
Browning and George Holland, having sur
veyed privately fourteen hundred acres of
land out of my Middle Neck, which have APP
pointed portion for my son Casparus Her
man, | have sent an exact journal to Mr..
Lewellin, in your Lordship's land office, of
my first foundation and seating of Bohe
mia Manor, to maintain my right and claim
against those deludng allegations which
false intruders may fill your Lordship's
ears withal If your Lordship would be
| pleased to peruse, at some leisure time, it
will perhaps put your Lordship in mind of
things your hardship now not thinks on.
| | have also entered a caveat against John