Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1909-03-26
Daughters of the Americas Revo-
luton,

OF the American NeVOlutlOn, MIS-. Donald
Mclean, with Mrs. j. Pembroke Thorn
State Regent, will formally organize the
first chapter of the D. A. R. in Montgomery
county on Friday, April 10Th, 1909. The
chapter will be named the Janet Mont.
gomery Chapter, after the wife of General
Richard Montgomery, who fell at Quebec
in IT'S. and for whom Montgomery
county, formerly the lower portion of Fred
erick county, was named. Mrs. Montgom-
cry, according to Elizabeth F. Ellitt, in her
Women of the American Revolution" was
adaughter of Counsellor Livingston, of New
York, among the earliest and foremost
jurists and statesmen of the colonies
The chapter will be organized in the
famous old Hungerford Tavern, in Rock
vile, where Braddock, Washington and
Lafayette were all successfully entertain
ed and which is of even greater historical
interest as the scene of one of the most i'm
portant events not only of the State but as
tending toward the formation of the COM
plete nation. At the time Montgomery
which was not created a separate county
until September 6. 1776, was then still
portion of Frederick, and Rockville was
struggling hamlet known only by the desig-
nation of its chief building. The scene
referred to and the measures leading up to
it are thus described in Scharff's His
tory of Western Maryland"
THE passage of the Boston Port Bill
reused the people of Maryland and they
made a common cause with Massachusetts,.
On June II, 1774, large meeting of the
inhabitants of the lower part of Frederick
was held at Charles Hungerfords Tavern, at
which Henry Griffith was chosen moderator,
and the following resolutions adopted:
"ResOl0ed, unanimously That it is the
opinion of this meeting that the town of
Boston is now suffering in the common
cause of America
"ResOE0ed, unanimously, That every legal
used by all America for procuring repeal
of the act of Parliament for blocking up
the harbor of Boston;
"ReSoloed, unanimously, That it is the
opinion of this meeting that the most effec-
tual means for the securing American free
dom will be to break off all commerce with
Great Britain and the West Indies until the
said act be repealed, and the right of taxa
ton given up on permanent principles;
"ResOlued unanimously, That Mr.. Henry
Griffith, DIR. Thomas Sprieg Wootton, Nathan
Magruder, Evan Thomas. Richard Brooke.
Richard Thomas, Zadoc Magruder, DIR. VIM
Baker, Thomas Cramphin. Jr., and Allen
Bowie be committee to attend the gen.
eral committee at Annapolis, and of cor
respondence for the lower part of Fred
erick county, and that any six of them
shall have power to receive and commune
cate intelligence to and from their neigh
boring committees.
"Res0Eped unanimously. That a copy of
these. our sentiments, be Immediately trans
mitted to Annapolis, and inserted in the
Maryland Gazette.
Signed per order,
ARCHIBALD 0RME, Clerk.
For a number of generations the old
tavern has been in the possession of the
Russell family, of Montgomery county. Its
present owner is Miss Lucy Russell, sister
of w. W. Russell, United States Minister
to Venezuela. Fearing for the future pres
ervation of the ancient building should it
fall into alien hands the primary object of
the Janet Montgomery Chapter will be to
raise fund for its purchase and restora-
ton. so that it may be used as the official
headquarters of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution in Montgomery.
This is not the only valuable relic of the
past of which Montgomery can boast. Its
entire domain is sacred to the Revolution
airy era of the country. The road that
Braddock pursued to Fort Duquesne. now
lay through this county, and his |
troops went into encampment around the |
Inn. The grave of General |
Crabbe is also within its boundaries, as is |
that of Rev. Townsend Dade, Revolution
airy rector of Old Christ Church, Alexan-
dria, who preached General Washington's |
funeral sermon and whose remains are in
tered in Monocacy Cemetery.
These and many other spots of similar
historic memory it is proposed by the Janet
Montgomery Chapter to mark with suitable
tablets and inscriptions in the course of
time.
The new chapter has been formed chiefly
L. Croxall, whose husband, former Balti-
MORGAN. is by an interesting coincidence
the last of the Maryland branch of the
colonial Croxall family to bear the name.
He has a sister. Mrs. John brennan Starr.
however. still residing on North Charles
street. Baltimore, and who, with her daugh-
tiers. the Misses Mnna and Agnes Starr.
are among the charter members of the
Janet Montgomery Chapter.
For the ceremonies attending the organ
ization of the new chapter, which will
start out with the unusually large mem
bership of 40, the old HungerfOrd Tavern
will be temporarily given over to the pos
session of the Daughters Of the American
Revolution, by whom it will be appropri-
ately decorated for the occasion.
MiddIebroOk Items.
Spring is supposed to be here in earnest
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