Evening star., 1925-11-29


family, Queen lands and Queen
u Chapel. l believe this request
would be better received had
phraSed it thus: Il crave your in
oniSence, even though | may tres
pass upon your patience. while l pur
sue the history of the Queen family,
etc. Readers have a gross appetite
1"r swelling, roaring language, and a
writer who takes liberties" by put.
ling down a sentence other than tive
million writers have done it is apt to
get in bad.
The chief difficulty for the Rambler
IN writing history of the Queen
tamlly is that nobody has done it
Hhe historian who will try to write
something that has not been written
before is rare and rash The usual
pldn of a historian-or an historian
lis 10 rewrIte the errors of a pre-
Nlous historian. and if the binding on
ms book is good he is sure of "a place
In literature. If he should have sense
enough to find errors in the other his
torian'S work, be ill-natured enough Ia
point them out. and then substitute
MS own errors for those he complains
OF, he VIII be denounced as an icono-
CiaSt. Then no man who belongs to a
select club will ask him to have a
drink, and no woman who makes a
practice of getting into the society
news Will ask him to a cocktail tea.
! am not urging that q man shall
write history without making mis-
takes. 1t would be hard for him to
lind a publisher for such a work.
publishers are careful Of their reputa-
Won. Sometimes man will try to
set along without a publisher and will
Write a book and pay Il high price
dul' having it printed. He seems to
have good time giving autographed
copies TO his friends who will never
a'ead them.
In the history of the Queen lands
The Rambler finds it hard to make
his case complete He would like to
trace the title back to the coming
OF Columbus or the Vikings. but the
state in which the records are kept
Al the City Hall will not permit this.
Ii would be desirable to trace the
title To the earliest Indians who hunt
ed on those lands, but the Rambler
1eelS that his reputation for accuracy.
nnJustly fastened on him. would suf,
Ter lie might pick out an oak tree
"a red oak-quercus maNima-whose
growth rings give its age as 90 years,
ANA then write you something like
this: Meath the spreading houghs of
Non noble oak-monarCh of the forest
more than four centuries ago King
.Poppycock. chief of the Piscataways,
held captive a damSel fair-a blushing
girl with golden bob-daughter of Jim
Persimmon, one of our hardy pioneers
of yore." But there would be nothing
original in that. Too many authors
far too many-have told the same
story about innocent oak trees
The Rambler would like TO give
you photographs of the men and
women who owned these lands two
hundred years ago, but he does not
know where to get 'em. Spirit photo
graphs might be had, but the Ram
blerS experience with those photo
graphs is that they are no less de-
pendable in resemblance to the old
people than oil portraits Of them in
possession of their descendants. [
would like to show YOU photogra phs
OF the settlers of two hundred years
ago, not only because it would be
what / have so often heard called "a
1eat of Journalism" but because I
believe the pictures of those persons
would more embellish the pages of a
newspaper than many portraits YOU
have to look at.
There is disturbance in my mind
about the name Queen" | have
found the names Richard Queen.
Joseph Queen, Samuel Queen. Walter
Queen, ct alii. There seems to be
some confusion of gender. But, if
we have Mary King and Sophie Prince
perhaps 1t IS all right that we have
Joe and Sam Queen. l have no doubt
that many ladies' of the Queen family
deserve the name. SO many of the
Queen family have been excellent per
sons that the name must have been,
at first. Quinn. Another point in
favor of the Queensland one that l
lay before YOU with pleasure-is that
of a I
We're Democrats
The first deed to a Queen in District
records is one made in 1874. To spare
myself the work of briefing it and to
give You the joy of reading law Eng
iSh | viii hand you this:
At the request .of Joseph Queen
this Deed was recorded the 10Th of
March. 1874.
rms lndenture made the 21St day
OF February in the year 1894 between
the Honorable Alexandria Contee
Hanson. Esquire, Chancellor. acting
on behalf of the State of Maryland
OF the one part, and Joseph Queen of
Prince Georges County in the said
state. of the other part. Witnesseth
W hereaS pursuant to Law the Intend
ant of Revenue exposed to sale SO and
one-quarter acres of land lying in
Prince Georges County. late the prop
ertY of IlNdeS' heirs and the afore-
said Joseph Queen became the pur-
chaser thereof and gave bond to the
State of Maryland in the sum of So
pounds shillings payable agreeable
10 an act of the Assembly passed No
Vember Session 1884 as by the Certifi-
cate of sale lodged in the land office
for the term of six months without
Caveat appears. Now this Indenture
WitneSseth that the said Alexander
Contee Hanson. Chancellor. afOreSa id
for and in consideration of the prem
lseS and that the purchase money
hath been fully paid to the Treasurer
of the Western Shore tetCD hath
granted tetcD part of a tract Of land
called HaddoX Hills lying in Prince
Georges county and contained within
the following metes and bounds Viz:
Beginning at the. end Of 80 ps
perCheSl on the third line of HaddoX
Hills it being the end of the first line