Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1921-11-04

CcptdhCC 10 hupOSSiOiC, uul WISHES you TO
know Of his most sympathetic interest in
the event and in the fact that Montgom-
cry County was officially born into the
Maryland community in the same year in
which the United States was born into the
community of Nations.
Very sincerely.
GEORGE B. CHRISTIAN, JR.,
Secretary to the President.
This by Special Delivery:
The White House.
Washington. D. c..
Sept. 8. 1921.
My Dear Mrs. Stone:
| have been much pleased to receive
your kind invitation to participate in the
ceremony commemorative the founding of
Montgomery County on September sixth.
l had hoped it might be possible for both
the President and myself to be with you
on that day. but we find it is out Of the
question. confess to keen disappoint-
ment, because the sentiment suggested by
the fact that Montgomery County was Or
eanized in the same year that National In
dependence was declared has greatly ap-
pealed to me.
hope that at some other time | may
have the privilege of testifying my great
appreciation of the kindness of the ladies'
of the Montgomery Chapter. D. A. R.. and
their associates in extending me this in
vitation.
Very sincerely.
FLORENCE KING HARDING.
Mrs. Frank Pelham Stone, REGENT Mont
gomery Chapter. D. A. R., Box 1902, Be-
thesda. Md.
This from David j. Lewis
September 7th. 1921.
My Dear Mrs. Stone
am impelled to drop you little note
to express my appreciation in having been
with your Chapter of the D. A. R. yester-
day and participated in its proceedings.
Allow me to say that do not remember
any public ceremonies better conducted
and few so we'll conducted. Your own
part in the work, may say. was espe-
cially well done. With best wishes to
yourself personally and to the Janet Mont
eomery Chapter and its members, am
Very sincerely yours.
DAVID J. LEWIS.
Col. Washington Bowie. ST.. wrote in
all the four-score Of my years never had
such happy afternoon"
Mrs. Walter Perry gave report of the
commemorative exercises held on the
Court House lawn on September 9th. 1921.
and read the sketch of Nathan Maerudeg.
prepared by Mr.. Caleb Clarke Magruder.
Nathan Maeruder was chairman of the
comm ssion to erect Montgomery County
out of Frederick County in 1910. was the
son of John Magruder and Susannah
Smith and was born on his fathers plan
tation. "Dumblane." Prince George county.
Nd, in 1918. His properties in Frederick.
now Montgomery County. were known as
"Knaves Dispute. The RIDGE" Charles
and Benjamin" Addition to Turkey
Thicket." Wells Invention" and THE Mis-
take" His home plantation. "Knave's Dis
pute," was subsequently combined with the
other tracts mentioned. excepting Wells
Invention" and given the name of Ma
gruder's Farm" This propertyis near the
village Of Redland and is now owned by
Thaddeus 7. Bussard.
Upon the erection Of Frederick county
out of Prince George county. 1748. Nathan
Magruder was appointed judge or justice
of the March Term of Court and continued
to so act until elected a member of the
House of Burgesses in 1871. serving therein
until 1853. In the latter year he was
named as visitor or trustee of the Fred
erick County Free School,
In 1883 his name headed a list of
parishioners of Rock Creek Parish request
ing Governor Sharpe to order division of
the parish. which request eventually led
to the organization of Prince George Par
ish. with Christ Church. Rockville. as the
parish church.
Following the blockadine of Boston har-
Dor. large meeting of the inhabitants of
lower Frederick. now Montgomery County
assembled in historic "Hungerford Tav-
ern." Rockville, Md. June II. l774. and
passed resolutions endorsing the spirit Of
resistance of the Bostonians At this meet
ing delegation Of ten. among them Ma
than Magruder. was named to attend a
general conference called to assemble at
Annapolis. and Nathan Magruder was also
named as a member of the Committee on
Correspondence. AS such a delegate he at
tended the First General Convention of the
Colony Of Maryland. June %. 1774.
Subsequent to the assemblaee of the
First Continental Congress in Philadelphia
citizens of Frederick County assembled in
their Court House and Nathan Magruder
was made a member Of a committee to
carry out the resolves Of the said Congress.
September 6. 1915. two new counties
we're erected out of Frederick County,
Washington County. called for George
Washington. then leading the struggle for
American Independence. and Montgomery
County, called for General Richard Mont
gomery. who fell in his effort to capture
Quebec. December 81. ITS. and whose
wife, Janet Montgomery, gives her name
to the Chapter Of the Daughters Of the
American Revolution under whose au-
spicies these exercises have been arranged.
The Act directing the creation Of Mont
eomery County reads as follows; After
the first day Of October next such part OF
the county Of Frederick, as is now con-
tanned in the bounds beginning at the
east side of the mouth Of Rock Creek or
the Potomac River and running with said
river to the mouth Of Monocacy, thence
with straight line to PARIS Spring and
thence with the lines Of the county to