The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-08-18
The Hartford Revolutionary Association,
AN ADDRESS BY COL. LOVE.

| MaryIand's Part in the Rev tuition Not
Sufficiently RccOgnized-Tho Hartford
Declaration IN I775 "a Bold Act-it Ante
dated the MeckIenburg Declaration
Bravery of Maryland Troops at the
Battle of Long Island.
The Revolutionary Association of Hartford
County held meeting in the Court House, on
Tuesday night, with Hon. Herman Stump,
President, in the chair, and Mr.. s. w. Bradford,
Secretary. Col. William H. Love, of Baltimore
who has devoted much attention to the pleas
ant task OF seeking out the revolutionary his
tory OF Maryland, delivered an interesting adj
dress. His researches, he said, lad developed
the fact that in Maryland events had occurred
and had been permitted to pass without notice,
which in other States would have been COM
memorated by monuments and by meetings
which no hall would be large enough to hold.
or the colony of Mary land the King had said
landed in Maryland were well born" From
that breed of men a magnificent race has
sprung, who, when the day of trial came,
showed the mettie of which they were made.
Referring to the Hartford Declaration at
Bush. on March %. 1775, Col. Love said: "a
serious condition of affairs must have existed
when the citizens of the county gathered, at so
much risk, and adopted such resolution as
this. II this resolution had been passed
in any of the New Engl States 1t would have
been commemorated long ago by some mag
nitcent mention of the act. In his researches
he had discovered that the Hartford Declaration
was sixty days before the famous MeckIenburg.
North Carolina, resolution. He had called the
attention OF the Society of Colonial DANES to
the fact and asked them to take action in COM
memoration of the event, but had heard
enquiry from Mr.. s. ". Bradford, Of Bel Air,
asking for the story, had led to correspondence,
and this, no doubt, was The inception OF the
Society. The Hartford Declaration was an
went worthy of being celebrated by the best
forts of the descendants of the men who sign
ed that paper, the signing of which IL cant
treason to the mother country and death.
Col Love sald that At Il banquet in New York
he referred to the herCism of the band Of young
Marylanders at the battle OF Long Island, where
400 of them repeatedly charged the advancing
British army of 1905, under General Howe,
and kept them back until General Washington
with his army had crossed Gnwanus Creek.
Col. Love eaid he had read hundred school
histories published in Massachusetts and Con-
necticut, and not one word is said OF this gal
liant deed. His remarks at the banquet had
ere ted an interest which ultimately led to the
erection Of beautiful monument in Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, to commemorate the herolsm
of he Maryland patriots.
The following resolution, offered by Mr.. ].
L. q. Hopkins, was adopted:
WHEREAS, Til proposed celebration, by the
Revolutionary - < ition of Hartford County.
to be held on N %, 1900, IN commemora-
ton of thu 125i unversary of the signing of
the Hartford Declaration" will be al event of
common interest to the descendants of all Har-
fordonians who participated in the val ous acts
of patriotism connected With the American
revolution. And
WHEREAS. The same patriotic fervor ami
ma cd the miuds and hearts Of all Iberty-loving
Americans of that day, and bound them
together rs workers in Il comm and most
sa red cause. Therefore he it
HeS0tced, That the !escendnnts of all pair OTIS
of Hartford county who during the revolution
rendered service Civil military to the
American cause, be, and they hereby are it,
vitcd to become associated with this organiza-
ton as members thereof.
Col. Stump said it vas not intended that
member ship in the soc!cty should be confined
solely to the d scrndaniS of tue siyuers of tine
Hartford Declaration, but the descendants of
all the Hartford patriots who had made sacri-
fees for their country were invited to join.
Col Love. who was the que of Col. Stump,
" Wavcrly, mentioned rs Il singular coinci-
dence, that fifty V, airs ago, when Il clerk for
the late william B. Norris, the former owner
of Waverly, ue had stayed in the same house.