Evening star., 1921-12-04
THE RAMBLER CONTINUES HIS STORY OF
AMMENDALE AND PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY

churchyard was used for buriais
after the removal Of the church be-
cause men and women wanted to be
buried by the side of their fathers.
Some church historian might be able
to tell when the first st. Marys was
built at Chapel Hill"
The Rambler sought that inforrpa-
ton from church authorities. but did
not obtain it So you see how easy it
is for an old church site to be forgot
The name Walker" on the stones at
Evansville may hold a clue. but no in
formation as to who these Walkers
were is to be had at Evansville. They
may have been important people in
tnat region. but now. u few years
after. even the memory Of them is
gone. so it is.
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IN trying to get trace of somebody
by the name of Van or w. u.
Walker or e. A. Walker in Prince
Georges county the Rambler turned
to the first census that of 1890 In
searching that list an idea came to
him which may be helpful to those
persons who ire looking for ances-
tors. He began to jot down the names
of all those persons who were slave
l
he thought the Shareholders were
more deserving of mention in these
chronicles than those who were not
Shareholders. but it was not practi-
cable to reprint in these stories the
/! names of all the heads of family in
Prince Georges in 1890. He thought
IT might be practicable to reprint the
names OF the Shareholders. But even
TINS list grew TO be too long because
OF the large number of persons who
held one, two, three, four or five
. slaves, so he concluded to copy the
/ names of those Who held ten or more
slaves. This list grew to such q
| length that the Rambler copied only
the names beginning with the letters
A, Il and c. with the thought that if
there should be a sufficient number
OF requests for printing the remain
ing names he would supply them from
time TO time in the course of the
ram bles.
which he copied from the first census
list: John Cole Addison. "a slaves:
Richard Adams. ~: Thomas Grafton
Addison. 25; Anthony Addison. IS:
Jacob Aldridge, %; Austen Allen. 81;
Walter Addison. 20: John Addison, 20;
Robert Bowie. AZ; Priscilla Boone. Il;
Edward Boiler. II: Allen Bowie. 80:
Joseph Boiler. 19. John Smith
Brookes, 40; Thomas Brooke, 10: Igna-
thus g. Booman. 10: William Beans
Jr.. 45; Colman Beans. 80: DR.. Richard
Burgess. 20: Elisha Berry. 35; Mary
Brooke. H. Elizabeth Brooke Cof
Lem, IL: William Bowie. jr., 43: Mary
Brooke tof Henry. "a: Benjamin
Brookes, II: DIR. John +. Bowie. 80:
Sarah Brooke tof Benz, 13; William
Bowie, Sd: "a; William Sprigg. Bowie,
70; hr. William Bowie. 10: John l..
Brishtwell. 10; Robert Baden. IL:
James Bonefant. 10; Jonathan Burch
"a; osweIl Brooke. Is: Ann Blackjack
Il: Jos:as Reall. a: Samuel Boyd, 35:
Col. John Beans. Il; Alextius Boone,
lS: Henry Boone. "a: Lengham Boiler.
u; Margaret Brooke, l6: Patrick
Beall, Is: William Bean. sr, 10; DR..
William Baker 81: benjamin Berry.
50: Archibald Boyd. 10; Rebecca Beck
IL: Capt Richard Beall. IA: William
Bayley, "a: Joshua RealI. 10: George
Beall, Sd. Il: Walter Bowie. A: Mary
Belt. u; Benjamin Belt. sr.. %: John
Brown tPatuxenp. 81: Thomas Boyd.
sr. %: John W. Brashears. ls: Basil
Beall. Il: William Dent Beail l.: John
Beall tsheriffD. IL; Peter Brown. -:
Eleanor Bradford. 20: David Burns
lour David. original proprietor of part
of the site of Washington. IL; John
Thomas Bowcher. 2l; Mary Berry. 80:
John Magruder Burgess. 10: Zacha-
riah Berry, As: Humphrey Belt. 81:
Nicholas Blackjack, %: Charles Bur
CESS, %: William Berry. l3: Elizabeth
Burgess. 10; Samuel Brashears, 10:
Noble Baynes. SIS: Lloyd Belt. Is: John
Bowling. l.; Joseph Boarman. SO:
Priscilla Boone, 20; DIR. David Clark.
70: Thomas Claeett. l3; David Gran
ford. so; Mary Crawford. IL; Thomas
Clarke. 2S: Richard Alexander Con-
toe, %: Sarah Coverton. 50; Thomas
Contee. 25: Walter Brooke Cox, Il:
Thomas Clagett tmerchant). 40: Sarah
Clarkson. 10: Garland Calls. 21: John
Casey. II: John Contee. Il; Elizabeth
Calvert. 22s: Overton Carr. 81; DR.
Richard Gates. IS; Margaret Crau-
ford, l3; Alexander Crauford. 10: Dam
iel Clarke, Il: Ann Clarke. 19: Joseph
White Clagett, 90; Capt Joseph Cross,
1s: John Crow. II: Richard Crampher,
l6: Daniel Carroll tof DAM, l3:
Charles Clagett, 20: Nathaniel Crau-
ford, 90: Thomas Ciarkson, IS; Samuel
Cave, IL: Thomas Clarke. 2S; Freder-
ick Clarke, IL; Henry Trueman Cump-
Hanah Clagett. 40.
One of the many interesting things
which the Rambler ran against in
the old census lists was of negroes
who owned slaves. OF course, this is
no discovery. 1t is pretty well known
that negroes were slave owners,
though such a situation was by no
means common. But in the census
list of Charles county he jotted down
this: Edward Spalding, free negro,
two slaves. Samuel Curtis. free negro
one slave: Samuel Wheatley. free
negro. three slaves"
l have overstayed my time on these
pages and must close. / intended in
this ''ramble" to spend some time
on the Ammen farm of Ammendale
and in the grounds of the Christian
Brothers at Ammendale and then to
move on the historic Muirkirk iron
furnace and the iron mines and char
coal kilns appurtenant to that in
teresting place. but with your in
dulgence-that is, if you don't weary
Il will write of those places in due
time.