The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-04-06

I for the deed is not on record. who died
and left a son John Toasl, who inhel tied
it as his heir and devisee. This John Toas,
it would seem, was not very thrifty nor i,
very well TO do man, for he Induced one
/ . Robert Roberts, of Queen AIMS county
/ glover, to become bound for ye sd. Toas
/ for We sum Of e200 and upwards, which
! the said Robert Roberts was obliged to pay
and did pay, the said John Toas abscond-
ing himself from justice, for which there
/ did an act of Assembly pass and was con
! tirmed, thereby empowering the said Rob
| ert Roberts by virtue Of the same to make
I good and valuable sale and absolute title OF
| inheritance in fee simple of TO aud in four
! thousand FIVE hundred acres of the New
/ Munster tract" BY virtue of this act of
| Assembly the said Robert Roberts sold to
| Daniel Pearce, Of Kent county, 407 acres
of the said tract for 1000 pounds of to-
bacco the deed for which is dated the 4th
Of September, l713. This 407 arces was
. located il the southwest corner of New
Munster and contained the site Of the mill
near the mouth of the Shure, now owned
! by Howard Scott. Roberts also sold to
! Thomas Stephenson, of Bucks county, Pa,
nearly three thousand acres of the same
tract, "a large part of which was east of the
Big Elk for the sum of c300 current money
of Maryland. The deed from Roberts to
Stephenson is dated April 1st, 1714
On the 18th of May following. Stephen
son sold the tract on the east side of the
Big Elk, containing upwards of l, 100 acres,
to Matthias Wallace, James Alexander,
farmer, Arthur Alexander, farmer, David
Alexander, weaver, and Joseph Alexander,
tanner. The deed recites the fact that the
tract Of land then conveyed to Wallace,
aud the AlexandeTs had for some years
last past been improved and possessed by
them, and had been by them divided among
themselves, each mar according to his
holden, and that he, the SAID Stephenson,
being minded to sell the said tract of land,
thought it most equitable, honest and right,
that they, the said possessors thereof should
have the first offer to buy or purchase each
man his holden or division of We same
There is no doubt, Judging from the facts
recited in the deed from Stephenson to
Wallace and the Alexanders that they were
part of the " Il other HisAmen' - mentioned
in the certificate of survey, and that they
located upon New Munster many years
prior to the time at which they obtained
the deed for their farms. The first deed
from Stephenson to the AlexandelS cou-
tanned covenant that the grantor, Stephen
son, would make them another and better
one if they demanded it any time during
the next seven years ensuing after the date
of the first deed. In accordance with this
covenant, Stephenson, by eight deeds, each
Of which is dated August 18th, Ills, re-
conveyed his interest in 903 acres Of tie
New Munster tact to Joseph, James,
David, Arthur, Elijah and Mary Alexander
This woman, Mary, was the widow Of
James Alexander, deceased, who probably
was the son of one of the other Alexan-
ders before mentioned. BY two other deeds
of the same Gaze he also conveyed certain
parts of the said tract to John Gillespie
and Matthias Wallace, Jr. The land CON
vcyed to the colony of Alexanders en-
braced the northeast part of the New Nun
Ster tract and extended from short dis
lance north OF Cowantown to the extreme
northern boundary of New Munster, which,
as before stated, was about a mile north of
the State line, as it was located by Mason
and Dixon fifty years afterwards. 1t was
bounded on the west by the Big Elk and
and the west branch of Christiana flowed
through it for about a mile, near the north
east corner of that part of it that is now in
Maryland. These Alexanders, and proba-
New Munster and the parts of Pennsylva-
MA and Delaware contiguous to it, were
Scotch Irish; and as this class of settlers
acted a conspicuous part in the early, as
well as in the subsequent history of the
county, short account of them may be
interesting and profitable.
During the reign of Elizabeth, the people
of Ulster, province in the north of Ire
England and, as was always the case with
the people of that country, they were sub
iugated and subjected to vigorous and
severe regime. Though they were obliged
did so with reluctance, and were ever ready
for revolt. Though the fire of their pa
trotism was apparently extinguished, it
was not wholly quenched, and soon after
the accession of James l. another con
spiracy was entered into between the Earl
of Tyrone and the Earl of Tyrconnel
against the English government. 1t was
soon suppressed, and the two earls were
forced to fly. Their estates, containing
about 500,O00 acres, were contiscated. A
second insurrection soon afterwards gave
occasion for another large forfeiture and
nearly six entire counties in the province
of Ulster were cOnfiscated. This Large ter
ritory of confiscated land was nearly de-
populated by the efforts of the English in
reducing its inha bitants to obedience. 1t
soon became a favorite project of the Eug-
lish sovereign to repeople this depopulated
territory with Protestant population,
hoping they would be more peaceable, and
consequently less likely to rebel. Many
inducements were held out to the people of
England and Scotland to settle in this
vacant territory in Ireland. The principal
emigration, however, was from Scotland.
Its coast is near the coast of Ireland, and
the emigrants had only short distance to
travel to reach their new homes. The
Scotch emigrants brought with them their
habits of industry, and their strong Calvin
istic faith and rigid adherence to the
Presbyterian religion. This was the first
Protestant population that settled in lie
land. The first Irish Presbyterian Church
was established by the Scotch Irish in 1913
But, owing to the unstable character of
the House of Stewart, these emigrants
were destined soon to undergo a tiercer and
more cruel persecution than the Catholics
whom they had succeeded. The persecu-