Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-09-02

ony Of Maryland ihe goodwill and aIIi-
ance Of the most powerful ol the neigh-
boring ehieftains, without whose fFiend-
ship its existence would probably have
been seriously imperilsd. Tayac died
in l641, together with one hundred and
thirty oi the natives
la 1850 Robert Brooke, Of England,
and thirty-nine cclonista formed 4 set
clement about 20 miles from the mouth
Of the Patuxent. The name Of the
manor was De II Brooke. The names
0f the settlers were Robert Brooke.
Mary zie wife. and Baker, Thomas.
1l.Hs ~ AIs
Francis Mary and Anna Brooke, biz
children. The servants we're Marke
Lovely. VIM. Bradney, Philip Har-
wood, Richard Robinson, Anthony Kit
chin, VIM. Jones, John Clifford, Jas.
Leigh, Benjamin Hammond. Robert
Sheale, Thomas Joyce. Henry Peere,
Thomas Eistone, Edward Cooke, AM
brose Briggs, Robert Hooper, WIN.
Hinson, John Boocock. David Brown,
Henry Robinson, Anne Marshall, Kath-
crime FISHER, Elizabeth Williamson,
Margarite Watts, Abigail Montague,
Eleanor Williams and Aghes Neale.
The Brooke family is now represented
by the Brookes Of Brooke Grove, 10
Montgomery, and by vast number oil
descendants in Prince Georges and IN
other counties of the Western Shore.
One of his representatives, through a
female line, was Chief Justice Taney.
Mr.. Brooke held a seat in the privy
council, aud at later period, during
the ascendency of the Puritans, was
elevated TO the post OF President-an
Office analogous to that Of lieutenant
general or Governor.
AT this time both sides of the Patux-
ent were Ia Calvert county, as the re-
cords show that on the Sd day Of July,
1854, Gov. Stone, "foF divers reasons,
relating TO the public good. with the ad-
vice of the council. did now erect, make
and appoint both sides Of Paluxent river
into one county, by the name Of Cal
vert county, bounded on the south side
with Pynehill river or creek to the head
thereof, and from thence through the
woods to the head Of Patuxent, being the
northerIy bound Of ST. Mary's county,
and bounded on ine north side with the
creek upon the western side or Chesa-
peake bay, called the Herring creeke,
and from thence through the woods ia
the head OF Patuxent river, being the
southerly bound Of Ann Arundel coua-
ty; and the Governor this day likewise
appointed Mr. Richard Collet to be high
sheriff Of Calvert county afoFesaid:"
CromweIl's commissioners, upon TAX
ing possession of the province in the
same year, changed the name Of the
county 10 Patuxent, and directed that
Ann Arundel county should be called
Providence, this being the fret name by
which il was known. These counties
continued to bear the names Of Provi-
dence and Patuxent until the restora-
ton ofthe proprietary government in
1858, whea the original names Of Anne
Arundel and Calvert were restored by
the general repeal ofthe acts and orders
in passed during the defecilon. Upon
the restoration OF the province to the
proprietary in 1868, one oi the FIRST
fruits Of loyalty was the erection oil
Charles county. A county OF that name
had been established in 1850, by an Or
der in council, which was repealed ~
1854, and Calvert county was erected
in its stead. Before the year 1889 many
tracts we're taken up in Prince Georges,
but that extensive county, out Of which
Frederick was carved as late as 174S,
was not itself erected out Of portions oil
Calvert and Charles tilI the year 1895.
When the Purilans seized the Pro-
vince in 1854 they removed the records
TO the house OF Richard Preston, on the
Patuxent. Gov. Stone, in 1865, finding
himself at the head Of about 130 men,
determined 10 make an effort 10 recover
the government. He dispatched John
Hammond 10 recover the records and 20
capture magazine OF arms aud ammn-
ton which the PurIsans had gathered on
the Paluxent. From the following ac-
count, given by Hammond, be was COM
pleiely successful:
"Gov. Stone sent me 10 Patuxent 10
fetch the records. went unarmed
amongst these sons Of thunder, only
three or four to row me, and despite OF
all their braves OF rising the country;
calling m his servants TO oapprehend me,
threatened me with the severity oftheir
new-made law, myself alone seized and
carried away the records in defiance.
Stone in his attack upon Providence,
called Annapolis, was not so success
fnI. About City oFhis men were killed
or wounded and himself taken prisoner.
He was condemned 10 death with ten oI
his soldiers, but bis life and the lives OF SIX
Of his men were spared through the ef-
lorts oil the women OF Providence, who
begged that he might be saved.
The Severn and the Patuxent being
the seat Of the Puritan settlers, The Leg
isIature in 1857 sat at the fort on the
Patuxent. Here also Augustine Her
man (aiterwS ards proprietor Of Bohemia
Manor, Cecil counly,) and Resolved
Waldron, the ambassadors appointed by
Gov. Stayyesant, Of New Neihsrlaad.
New York, met Gov. Fendall IN reia-
tIon TO the troubles on the Delaware.-
In 1912 and 1913, George Fox, the
founder Of the Quakers. preached ttbe
cliffs Of the Patuxent TO Indians aud
crowds Of colonists, thus promoting the
growth Of that denomination which soon
absorbed large number Of the PuFitans
and embraced many Of the most resPec-
table and distinguished families d the
Province.
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