The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-07-23
Continued from last week.

tied at an early date in Virginia. Later
some of them located on Cheat River,
near Albright, and from there came
Peter Mason about 1850 and settled in
Snowy Creek Glades, near Hutton. He
died in 1870.
His son, Jarvis Mcclure Mason
married Mary Ann Chisholm. They
were the parents of Alexander c.
Mason, born in 1848, who had been a
surveyor for sixty years. He was
elected first county survey or Gar
rett county and was the best informed
man on land SURVEYS in the county,
His death occurred in May, 1886.
Very few citizens of the present day
can remember, and many of the youn-
ger generation may doubht this histor-
zeal fact that only three generations
ago scions of the best families from
Frederick, st. Mary's, Prince Georges,
Montgomery and other old counties in
Maryland, migrated into what is now
Garrett county, bringing their slaves
with them to raise tobacco.
My grandfather, William Waller
Hoye, had five daughters who married
pioneers. Two married Dranes; one
an Armstrong; one Townshend and
one William Ridgeley.
Paul Hoye, who came to Prince
Georges county in 1890, was my great
grandfather three generations re-
moved.
Thomas Johnson, First Governor Of
Maryland
Thomas Johnson, as first Governor
of Maryland, is of special interest tc
US because of long service to the State
and nation, and for the additional
reason that he became owner of vast
tracts of land in which ms now Garrett
county, on part of which two of his
sons became early settlers.
The johnson ancestry is traced tc
James johnson of the old English city
of Yarmouth, of which he was one Of
the two bailiffs in 1870. His son Thorn
as johnson I, in 1926, was mem.
Der of the famous "Short Parliament. y
Thomas Jonhnson II, during the
Great Rebellion, was a captain in the
Parliamentary forces, but after the
execution of Charles l he became g
royalist. His son James was knighted
by Charles II.
Thomas Johnson III, son of the cap.
tain, married Mary Baker, ward in
chancery, without the consent Of the
Lord High Chancellor, which consti.
tuted a high misdemeanor, punisha.
BILE by a heavy fine and Imprisonment
as contempt of court. Johnson, with
his bride, fled from, England and ar
rived in the Chesapeake Bay in 1890
and settled in Calvert county. He soor
became involved in Colonial politics
espousing the cause of King James
against William of Orange. He was
arrested and brought before the coun.
Gil and required to give bail. Skipping
his bail he fled to the Indians, with
whom he trafficked in furs. Some years
later he embarked for England with
lot of fine furs and a quantity Of
gold, but the vessel on which hi
had taken passage was captured by the
Spaniards and those on board robbed
and imprisoned.
johnson finally escaped and landed
in Canada, destitute. He walked al
the way to Maryland, there to find his
cabin burned by the Indians, his wife
dead from anxiety and grief. Weak
ened by exposure and exhaustion, he
died soon after his return to Mary.
land.
Thomas johnson w was born il
1902, only son Of the immigrant, was
left an orphan at the age of twelve
He was fed and clothed by friends anc
given a good education. At twenty
three he married Dorothy Sedgewick
of Calvert county. Shortly after hi:
marriage he was sent as a delegate
from Cecil county to the Maryland
Assembly, and was reelected from
year to year until about the time Of
the birth of his distinguished son anc
namesake.
Thomas Johnson V was born in 1882
the year which is memorable as the
date of birth of the immortal George
Washington. He was the fifth in ;
family of twelve children and wa!
sent early to Annapolis to earn hi!
living, and upon his arrival at thu
capital he was given employment il
the land Office. Deciding to study law
he was in due time admitted to the bar
At the age of twenty-nine, Thoma.
Johnson took his seat as a delegate
from Anne Arundel county in the Pro
vincial Assembly of Maryland, start
ing career in public life which Gov
cred a period Of thirty years.