The St. Louis Republic., 1904-01-17
FIND SITE Of
OLD SETTLEMENT,
Baltimore Professor and Friend
Discover Place Where tldi-
borne Lived.
HE FOUGHT LORD BALTIMORE.
RniIr Fort Kent. on Kent Island,
but a Body of MnSkcte"rs
Attacked ana Gap
turcd 1t.
EFPT EIIC STE'IAL

EFcPI ElIr SlE'1A'
Baltimore. Md. Jan. lS.-An event "f N /
tor.st to all students of colonial Mary
Iar6 Is the positive Identification Of cap
tain william CIaihorun's sett em'nt on
Kent island. ~ Doctor Bernard 6. steiner
associate in history At Johns Hopkins M
yer.ifv, ana pc Courr,y " Thorn oil TINS
city.
Few chapters # colonial hi tory present
more ,iydIy the struggles %; early S''-
rItr- AGAINST uurpw1-t con iti"nS than
the career of William Claiborne. u p"rS!s q
ont and successful contestant with Lord
Baltimore fos the right of governing 'n
Kent Island.
The first settlement mad" h% whit" men
in Maryland was that Of Kent Fort. on
Kent island. H".r Captain Claiborne and
his I,ieuteuaut landed August Il. 1881. with
a company comprising sixteen mcH ana
one woman. ind,rtur"d 10 Clphcrry & 60.
London. IN which fra 'i"!hpru'' vas par
l.- and seven hired s"TV-Iui~- iu't ma
fb.r,. :, church. windmill iiilSHbcd lori
and s!,cd 70" tn" sru"Ig' HI tru'h az.
fuis. Within tho u'rirotS ct tns i"'l
w.f,.. cultivate corn a'd tobacco.
CAPTURED THE FORT.
,rbirhrr cant. Leonard calvert. in Feb
r3ar,. IsaS. with captain "ornwa''i- and 81
fort without Ilpp-sh,d in Tho name "i T."
lord proprietary. Csiy,.j sounI q private
r,,,rtatiru of Clilaorue's, called 'rafo'd.
in the ear. of lls servants. about five
Ilil.. tn the north, rr"iah "u the NrSt
shore of the island. ih"'- w"sr Two otn'i
private plantations.
Enzmau'- History of u sryiai'd and
. l,.,-I.'s .pIl star say 'Gui k,at Fort
vas near tie south .uJ Of tie .-iaad aud
was ,ituat"I ou tn" slo" toward Eastern
D - g q
/ Ciaiborne Was a Vicatut@n. ara his $ /
/ tI.,a.ut was r"pr. S"n'td II the Virginia
/ HuEsr Of BuraesSeS ~" years h"lprs IN -
] a,-:ier,rII, uf II. Nary's. After being
/ Sciznd hy Bait ruro's followers the pro-
nrfntarv CAV" tn" manor of Kent Fort 10
| expedition Later H." Transacted II !"
! .iiic, Rr,ut. From him it descended 10
his son AMI grandson ot IA" SAM ~ an. .
.bo resided IN NiTg uia then to the heir
| a+I,w of the last " liam Brent. and next
! "a mis- son of the same name. In 1881 the
lessee Of this last rc;son siec'sslulI
| rnairtaiueG an acton fo- tjectm"nt
AGAINST Benjamin Task t. who. with h.s
! ,,I,sI,,c.ssors had been n posS 'Ss'un i"T;y
Va. II was held 10y the court that the
statute of limitations did n.t run Asalns'
= pprs.oa who resided in another Province.
MANOR HOUSE BURNED.
rb, manor house vas burned about 17Ja.
| Arrtb,r house WIS erected On the sam"
/ f,ur,iatiun. hut has loug S.nCc d!sIp-
rod sDlG1FN az It ht4 inc A~lstiN! dA-''
stG"I the first Courthouse e IIcnt County.
and. indeed. tie first On the stern shore.
| lScr. , lurg period the estate ueIonSed III
tbr chew family, ana has since been va
rioUsly divided
| drove along ths main road Of the island,
irwin. TO identify the site Of Kent Fort.
'Tb,, island IS someU hat less than twenty
/ mics IN length from Love Point, the rail
way terminus. to Kent Point. ana its
eraatest width may be ten to twelve
miles The southern par. however, is only
about mile wide
They went to the house OF J. Frank
I.erc and found that they were in Kent
Fort Manor. Mr.. Leg went with them Z
show the point which tradition marked
as the site Of Claiborne's settlement The!
found il on a slight elevation back OF al
old landing on the bank of naviSabl'
: creek above Kent Point To the porth p.l o
| the site. now known as Chews Garden;
!, | and cultivated as a field IS a valley which
l was probably once an inlet. so that tn
1 | site was surrounded on three s:des n,
! water They found several fragments
glazed bricks about seventy yards iron
J.. | fI,o shore, which may have been part o
the Brent manor house