The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-16
FOUR HISTORIC U
Cannon That erve0 i'm the Old Days
For Coloufsts.

Annapolis Dispatch IN Baltimore HeIaio'
The. following interesting data Tslativs 20
have recently been received. by George ~.
shafer, Of the land office at Annapolis; from
Ma. The Asnapoiis gun referred to has
been removed from the grounds At the
statehouse TO the rotunda, where It has
been cleaned, and will be. suitably mounted
by direction Of Governor Lowndes:
Several old cannon which had. belonged
TO the earliest colonists, and had been
St. Mary's, were raised from the water of
St. Mary's river by the Rev. Joseph car,
berry, s. ]. Father Carberry was appointed
superior Of the residence of the Society OF
Jesus at St. 1nigoes In the year 1915, and
retained that position at least until 1S45. In
this capacity he had jurisdiction over the
year when he raised the cannon from the
bed of the river the present writer is not
informed, but in the year 1885 they were "
Inigoes as a curiosity. Uetter of Father
f. Grivel TO Father Joseph Tristram. Wor-
%cester, England, March 10; 1885, printed in
'One Of these guns was presented by
Father Carberry to the Statehouse at An
napolis. It was mounted on the grounds ISH
with an inscription giving It's history and
the donors name, and was seen there.in
comparatively recent years by the Rev:
Loyola College, Baltimore, Md. When the
present writer visited Annapolis, in COM
pany with Father Morgan, about the year
1894, we looked for the gun, but to our great
modification we found that Ii had been re-
moved from its former place and was half
buried in the earth, serving as a post at the
label, and had evidently fallen into neglect
and disregard.
MY own personal knowledge of these
ancient pieces of ordnance began in the
summer of 1875, when two of them were
still lying in the yard at ST Inigoes Manor;
Some years later, together with several
caholoS tioc Of yV0OdSt0ok College L assisted
in mounting the two cannon at st. 1nigoes
on rough supports overlooking the river
ton of Marshal Boarman, S. j., now a
priest in the Missouri province OF the So
ciety of Jesus.
About the year 1856 or somewhat later,
these two guns were purchased from the
superior of st. lnigoes by the Rev. James
A. Doonan, then president of Georgetown
University. By him they were removed e
Georgetown College and placed on the
grounds in front of the college main build
ing. In 1889 1 had them mounted on stone
supports in front of the central entrance tC
the college, where they remained until the
present year. They have now been re-
moved to allow the erection of the new
PUrSpe eiab Sas ers' a as be enGdir5dis"q mou SE e
in some other spot on the college grounds.
During my visits to ST. Inigoes from the
year 1875 to 1888 l was frequently told tina
a fourth gun of the set was on the farm
serving as a boundary mark, but L never
saw il.
II Is quite curtain lac tltSt GUNS udl'
from the early times of the St. Mary's col
ony, and ii seems 10 me probable that they
are the identical ordnance which the frs
colonists mounted in haste on the fort a
St. Mary's shortly after their arrival in or
der to protect themselves from a possibl,
attack by Indians. This caused them t
lay aside all other works and 10 finish thei
fort, which they did within the space o
one month, where they mounted some ord
nance and finished ii with some murthereri
and such other means of defense as the,
thought fit for their s~afeties. which, bein,
done, they proceeded with their homes AM
finished Them etc. (Stonyhurst, Md. o
letters written from the colony, 'Woodstocl
Letters Volume Y, Page 219.)
1T has sometimes been said that the st
InigoeS guns came from the old fort at For
Point, a few hundred yards below st. Ini
goes. This i believe to be incorrect, and
presume that the impression arose from a.
expression in the letter of Father Fell,
Grivel quoted above. This letter contain
several obvious inaccuracies, though as 4
the presence of the four guns on tn,
grounds at st. Inigoes at that time it can
not be doubted, as Father Grivel was the
residing there. In the Georgetown Colleg
Journal, about the year 1888, is an articl
by a near relative of Father Carberry, Civ
ing the history of the guns. and this de
clares that they were raised from the be-
of the river Immediately in front Of the sit,
of st. Mary's City,"