The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-04

HARTFORD HISTORICAL SoCIETY.-The Har-
ford Historical Society met at the Court
House, last Saturday. Rev. E. A. Colburn,
President, was in the chair, with Mr.. Albert
P. Silver, Secretary.
Mr.. Silver read ''History of the Chew
Family of Hartford County," and DIR. George
w. Archer gave a number of extracts from
old Hartford county newspapers.
A number of donations were offered, through
DR.. George w. Archer, as follows:
From Frederick W. Baker: Ten consecutive
numbers of 1.-The Weekly Aurora "a Demo-
cratic Journal of Philadelphia), of May, June
and July, 1915.
Gazette and Political Intelligencer" IAN Anna
polls Weekly, of December, january and Feb
ruary, 1S17-1S.
lican and Political and Agricultural Museum"
ian Annapolis semi-weekly), OF December, jan
lIary and February, 1S1S-19.
Interest in these old journals will not be d.
minished by knowing that they were originally
subscribed for, and, no doubt read. by James
Steel, the brave militia man who divided hon
ors with John ONeill at Havre de Grace in
1918, by shooting the British officer when the
latter, with the overwhelming force at his
back, summoned him to surrender. He was
afterwards surveyor of the county for many
years and a much honored Justice of the Peace.
The fact of his subscribing to so many leading
journals in those comparatively benighted
days indicates that, if he was not an intelligent
man, it was not for want of access to the sources
of intelligence.
In '.The Weekly Aurora" of May 10, 1915,
the following, concerning man OF national
prominence, whose relations now resides in
this county, is of interest:
"Charleston, S. c., Shocking. The venerable
DIR. David Ramsay in passing through Meeting
street this morning was shot by u wretch MANI
ed Linen, supposed to be derangedD with Il
horseman's pistol. The wound is very serious
so otra6 hnth is
tall DIR. Ramsay removed to South Carolina
from Cecil county. He was brother of Col.
Nathaniel Ramsay, and they were both shining
The doctor was member of Congress
and historian and biographer of much repute.
He married Il daughter of Henry Laurens,
President of the Continental Congress. The
| wound inflicted by the maniac proved fatal.
Vol. ii. of THE Southern Egis," from Janu-
| airy !, 1883, to January. 1853, three numbers
Vol Ill. of 1.-THE Southern Egis.'' fir m JAN
nary. 1859, to January, 1860, four numbers
Vol ". of 1.-THE Southern 1Egis" from Janu-
airy, 1860, to January, 1861, seven numbers
missing: 1.-The Egis and Intelligencer," of
saThe Hartford Gazette from July, 1852, to
December, six numbers missing.
1.-THE Hartford Gazette, =" from January, 1858,
| to July, seven numbers missing
1.-The Hartford Democrat for the year 1856,
| (vol. L., twenty-one numbers missing.
THE Hartford Democrat" from February,
1 L. d
THE National American" from June, 1851,
| to December, twenty-five numbers missing
January, 1862, to December, eight numbers
missing; January 1868, to December, nineteen
numbers missing; January, 1864, to Decem-
Der, eighteen numbers missing.
1.-The Hartford Union" of November 23d
1866.
From Gilbert s. Hawkins: An insurance
| policy certificate, No. 2566, of date January
10, 1910. issued by the baltimore Equitable So
his two-story brick warehouse, valued al
S2,4OO. The document is embellished with q
very creditable engraving of the society's
FROM the heirs of the late DIR. Joshua Wilson,
Two certificates of shares of stock of the Balti
more Insurance Company, 1897.
1.-THE Baltimore Patriot, - of 21st March, 1918
| giving the details of the mail robbery commit
ted near Hayre de Grace, ten days before, by
Joseph and Lewis Hare, John Alexander and
and others, all hailing from the City of Broth
erly Love-" They were arrested, tried in the U
s. Court in baltimore, and the three above
named hung on the 10th of the following Sep
TENDER, they having put the driver in jeopardy
of his life as the record runs.
The Baltimore American" 22d April, 1918
contains list of twenty-five medical graduates
Of the University of Maryland for that year
Among them, from Hartford county, are Joshui
Wilson. Thomas S. Chew, William P. Herber
The following resolution was adopted.
Resolued, That the Hartford Historical Societ,
desires to express its feeling at the great los
which it has sustained by the death of Mr.
I BENJAMIN Silver, one of its founders, and, a
the time of his decease, its Oldest member. 1t
loss Is shared by the entire county and com
munity in which his whole life has been spent
As man of the strictest integrity, entirel!
beyond reproach, thorough christian gentle
man. kind and courteous, he has left an ex
ample, which we can all follow with entir
safety. He encouraged the work OF the HIS
torical Society from the first, believing it woul
be for the good of his native county, and was
until his strength began to fail, regular al
tendant of its meetings.
May it please an all-wise Providence, VIII
has taken him to his eternal reward, to give
many such men, and may we all profit by tn
example which he has set before us.
N. N. Mock,
A. +. GALBREATH.