Evening star., 1927-05-15

| hierarchy, was born. He and Bishop
| Clagsett, who was born about five
miles south of Upper Marlboro, at
| Croome, attended the old Marlboro
| Academy together as boys. Carroll
! however, was sent to Europe to re-
ceive his theological education and his
family moved away from Upper Mari
| boro to a point near Forest Glen. in
! Montgomery County. He returned to
| find an intensive persecution of Catho-
| lies.
| The site Of his birthplace-the old
! house had been torn doWn-Was pur-
chased last year by st. Marys Parish
Of Upper Marlboro and eventually
either a parochial high school or
monument to Carroll will be erected
! there.
The two bishops trod far different
paths III after life. even apart from
their religious differences, but re-
manned personal friends. Carroll.
| member of the Society of Jesus, was
an ardent Republican and friend of
Washington. Claggett remained
Tory While conducting Il service he
was waited upon by company of
soldiers and ordered to stop. Calmly
facing an array of bayonets, the bishop
read on to the end. But when he left
the pulpit it was TO retire for several
years to private life.
Many of the original settlers in the
Upper Marlboro district were the chill
dren of the colonists who came from
England on the Dove and the Ark,
the first of the Lord Baltimore par
ties, and were about evenly divided
| between Catholics and EpiScopalianS.
The first Episcopal church was st.
| Paufs Church, at Baden, about five
miles below Brandywine, which was
established in 1851 by the Colonial Par
lament at the direction of Sir Lionel
Copley, the first royal governor of
Maryland after the revocation of the
Calvert grants. This church is still
standing-the oldest in Maryland.
There now are 45 Episcopal churches
and parishes in the county.
The town was named in honor OF
the Duke of Marlborough, since its
settlement came shortly after the
great battle of Blenheim. which made
him the national hero of England and
was the occasion of Addison's poem
describing him as the angel flying
| over and directing the storm.
! Marlboro grew rapidly as IA shipping
town. In the days of its greatest
prosperity, about the time of the
Revolution. there were approximately
200 inhabitants. 1t now has about
| 600. AS the land was cleared away
the western branch of the PatuXent
| began TO dry up. Its tributaries were
clogged. Soon sailing ships were no
| longer able to reach it. Then came
| the railroad and the days of the town s
! glory were done. The ruins of the old
wharf can still be seen behind the
! ENtiG Il hn tnharfE
was rolled by oxen in a primitive
arrangement consisting of shafts and
pole, to which was attached frame
work, attached in turn to the hogs.
head which rolled between. Such Il
contrivance can be seen on exhibit a
I the National Museum. The western
branch of the PatuXent now is hardly
deep enough for a rowbOat
In 1914 Mai. Gen. Ross, the British
commander remained over night at
| Upper Marlboro before the battle of
BladensburS and the capture of Wash
! ington.
| On the campus of the Marlboro
High School is d monument to Dr.
| William Beanes, a resident or inc
| town. who was placed under arrest
by Ross order when he headed
body of citizens who threw into the
!
soldiers DR.. Beanes was taken on
hoard the British ship Minden. 1t was
to secure his release that Francis
Scott Key, his nephew, a resident of
Georgetown. went out to the British
fleet and witnessed the hombardment
| Of Fort McHenrV. This resulted in
| The composition of THE Star Spangled
Banner"
One dirt road leads eastward from
Upper Marlboro through the prosper
Gus farming community of CrOOme,
a tobacco center. Along this road the
traveller can get an interesting cut
back into colonial days when the land
was being cleared of woods. There are
a few tobacco fields just reclaimed
from the forests. the plow burrows
running among burned tree stumps
Becoming Dairy Center.
This road twists around to the old
farming community Of Brandywine on
the Pope Creek railroad. There was
a village at BrandyWine about the
time OF the Revolution and it prob
ably owes its name to some returned
colonial soldier who had taken part
in the battle of Brandywine. Long
4 tobacco town. BrandyWine during
the past few years has started to de
velop as dairy center. This Is
partially due TO the work of the
Southern Maryland immigration Com
mission. Several of the farms have
been taken over by German settlers
familiar with dairying, who are doing
much to restore the land to the fer
tility it enjoyed when the British
subaltern' marched through Prince
Georges County with Ross army
, Among the German settlers is one
Count Rechtenberg, an officer in tht
I<aiser's army, who has become
; poultry farmer.
Rrandywine has two churches,
bank, an excellent high school ant
several general stores