Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1909-01-14

10 81. Inigo's; and In the opposite
quarter, not far from The State House
| 3 building Of much more pretension.
though By no means so neat. had
been erected for the service Of the
Church 81 England. which was then
growing into the ascendant. On
one oi ihs streets leading TO the
beach was The market house, sur.
rounded by It's ordinaries and ale-
houses; and lastly. 10 tho year 1851.
10 which this description refers. q
little hostelry Of famous report,
known by the sign OF THE Grow
and Archer. and kept BY Master
Garrett Weasel. stood 90 the waters
edge. at the foot Of the bank below
the State House, On piece IF level
ground lookIog out uponthe harbor.
where she traveller may still end a
lluxurlaut wilderness Of pear trees,
she scions Of q notable ancestor
which. tradition says. the afors.
said Garrets planted with his own
hand.
The country around 81. Mary Z
bore. at the period I have designa.
ted, the same broad traces Of settle
ment and cultivation which belong
to ii ct the present days, For many
miles the scene was one Of varied
Geld and forest, studded over with
dwellings and farm yards. TIE set.
Element had extended across The
neck Of land TO the Chesapeake. and
along both shores Of the ST. Mary 3
river 70 the Potomac This oper
country was diversified BY WOOL
land and enliyenad everywhere BY
the expanse Of navigable water
which reflected sun and sky, grove
and field and lowly cottage In /
thousand beautiful lights. Indeed
all the maritime border Of the pro
vince. comprehending Calvert. 81.
Mary's and Charles, as well is the
counties on the opposite shore D
the Chesapeake, might be said, q
this date, 10 be Ii condition Of Be-
cure and prosperous habitatIon,
The great ocean forest had receded
some hundred miles westward from
Isl. Mary's Tbe region Of country
lconap Eleiag The present county 3
Anne Arundel. as wei III Osaif aHs
the Isle Of Eesa, was frontier OIL
ready setf Wzh numerous tenants
OF the LogA Rr6prietary All vest
ward from Tins was the birthright
Of the stern Sasquesahannocb, the
fierce Shenandoah, and their kin.
dred men Of the woods.
They are gonel Like shadows
have have these men Of might sunk
on the earth. They. their game,
their wig vans, their monuments,
their primeval forests-yea even
their graves have fitted away In
their spectral flight Saxon and
Norman, bluff Briton and heavy
Suabian inherit the land. And la
its turn, well o day our pragmatical
little city has departed. Not all los
infant glory, nor It's manhood hustle.
It's walls. gardens and bowers Its
warm house keeping. les gossiping
burghers. It's politics and lbs factions
mot even Its prolific danes and
gamesome urchins could keep II in
the upper air until this our day.
Alas for the Wanting pride Of the
village. the vain glory Of the city.
and the metropolitan boastI ST.
Mary's has sunk to the level OF Tyre
and Sidon, Balbec and Palmy raj
She hath become trackless. token
less.
! have wandered over the blank
field where she sank down 10 rest.
II was book whose characters I
could scarce decIpher. asked for
relics Of the departed. The Winter
evening tale told by father to son,
and the written legend, more dur
able than monument Of marble, have
survived 20 answer my question,
when brick and tile. hearth and
tomb have all vanished from the
guest Of the traveller.
What have gathered from these
researches will occupy my reader
through the following pages.
CHAPTER III.
A txain-banb captain ele was he.
JoHM GTLRzH.
At the extremity Of the cape or
headland which formed the lower or
more seward point Of the crescent.
shaped harbor. was erected the Fort
Of ST. Mary's, whore II threatened
equal defiance tosuch as might medi-
tate disturbance by sea or land. Al
few hundred PAGES 10 the rear ofthe
fort. stood the ample dwelling house
Of the Lord Proprietary with its
gables. roofs, chimneys. spires.
sharply defined against the eastern
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