The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
The Egis & Inteligencer
Bel Air. Md, january 22. 1892.
THE LAND HISTORY OF HARTFORD.

Hartford people and members especially Of her
Historical Society should be gratiffed by the in
terest displayed in the letter OF J9dge WIN. A
That such man as he is should De lnteresled
in what may appear TO some OF US minor matters
of merely local value should give US higher
idee of their Importance and stimulate US to
greater efforts in research.
IL is always true that familiarity breeds con-
tempt" Thus bits of local history and tradition,
matters it may be, of every day talk. simply ap
pear to US as isolated matters, not as they
should, as links in the great chain or history
Judge Stewards letter, full of valuable sug-
gestion as 1t is, should be widely read and should
stir up our Historians and Genealogists to take
the lead Of any foreigner in our selection of facts
and their application.
The scrap of family biography. q can call it
neither history nor genealogy aloneO is in part
not unfamiliar to those who have examined the
early land records of this part Of (old) baltimore
county or the parish records or old 81. george g.
but it is nevertheless interesting because not en-
ti1eiy new. -
Tue Judges suggestion as to the utilization of
just such material as that just referred 10 might
well apply not only to young men of LEISURE,
but to any one through whose hands pass scraps
of the old Land or Parish Records, sucn as every
Bel Air lawyer has to do with dozen times in
year, or to those having access TO the garrets
full of old deeds, wills, certificates of surveys
&C.. and old newspapers which are TO be found
in nearly every house in the county which dates
But it will no doubt crafty those foreign we'll
wishers to know that already much valuable ma
terial has been gathered to this end by the Il Is
turical Society, and that from this work is in
progress which will relieve the citizens or old
Hartford from any imputation OF neglecting tnat
plain duty.
Two members of the Historical Society have
been working hard but quietly for long time
upon various lines of local interest. They have
written and published the story OF winters
Run and its Ancient DenizenS,' of the "Old
Iron Works." the Colonial Industries and the
Revolutionary annals, besides many bits OF oiog-
raphy and Evolutionary lore.
Even now they and another are occupied with
an almost endless task, the preparation or as
complete land chart of the county as may be.
based on the various surveys and patents Tor
land granted by the proprietary and State gov
ernments through the land office.
There have been plated by courses. distances
and calls belt of land extending about three
miles either side of Deer Creek. from what is
now Husbands Flint Mill, to the SusQuehanna,
and extending down the river to its mouth, with
a width of about four miles inland. Besides
many pats of inland. isolated tracts, there has
been made for further guidance copy OF tne
invaluable plat made the 18th OF January, IT'S,
of the "Meanders OF Bynums Kun, from neao
ing all of the tracts up to that time granted Tor
distance of over three miles on either side OF tn
run, by the well remembered surveyor and iano
Ter light of later surveys this plat SHOWS er-
rors, but with such guide the labor of properly
tting-in these old tracts will be greatly tighten
ed and It is hoped that the final result will be as
nearly perfect as the errors of the early survey
ors will permit.
Meanwhile what a deal of valuable informa-
ton of the names. residences, nay. even tne oc,
settlers, the original granters and their tenants,
may be Cleaned en- PEASANT
Thus work goes on and those engaged IN u
kindly, stimulating letters as that referred TO-
Making history is matter of years. and record
ing it accurately cannot be other than slow,
tedious process.
Joauarv IL. 1892.