The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-06-30
some OF The EARLY LAND
SPECTATORS In GARRETT
JONATHAN BOUCHER, TORY
PARSON

County Cumberland, England, in 1888.
His father, James Boucher, failed in
business. In his autobiography, Jona-
than wrote of poor teachers and of
his hard life on a farm. He says he
was naturally lazy and hated the farm
work, so he determined to secure an
education and escape from the farm.
In those days in England young men
of ambition often attached themselves
to rich patrons who helped them on
in life, so Boucher brought himself to
the attention of persons of rank and
property. He attended school and
finally secured employment as tutor
to the sons of Captain Dixon, of Vir-
GINA.
Then friends advised him to become
2 clergyman He returned to England
and was soon ordained as minister of
the Established Church. Returning to
Virginia, he was given parish. He
also kept school and boarded some of
the boys at his home, including Jackey
Gusts, step-son of George Washing
ton.
In Ito, Rev. Boucher was appointed
curate of st. Anne's in Annapolis and
two years later became rector of
Queen Anne's Parish in Prince George
county where he married Miss Add
son. who had a modest fortune of $500
pounds sterling.
In 1774 Boucher moved to "The
Lodge, on the Potomac, which he i'm
proved. He wrote:
Besides these vast undertakings
on my own home plantation, had
now also embarked in various land ad-
ventures and others for the augmenta
ton of my fortune"
Among his Gland adventures" were
the survey, in 1774, on warrants from
Lord Baltimore, of "The Blooming
Rose" HOO acres, west of Friends
vile; mt. Airy, 1896 acres, south of
Grantsville, and Good Hope, 389
acres, near Swallow Falls.
But soon the Revolution was on
and loyal subjects of King George
were not in favor in Maryland Rev.
Boucher was a bold and headstrong
Tory Of these times he wrote:
"And for more than six months
preached, when l did preach, with a
pair of loaded pistols lying on the
cushion of the pulpit"
Finding it advisable to leave Amer
lea, Boucher assigned his land war
rants in Western Maryland to friends,
gathered together what cash he could
and on September 10, ITS, with his
wife sailed for England, never to re-
turn.
Under the direction of Gabiel Du
vail, Commissioner of the State, in
1882, the remaining property of Jona-
than Boucher, amounting in value to
some 6393:10s., sterling, was confis-
Gated and sold. But England was kind
to her loyal son. He was given the
curacy of Paddington and compensa-
ton for his losses in Maryland. Of him
it was said;
His loyalty to his king remained
mistaken, even when the madness OF
the people ragged furiously against
him; and, for conscience sake, he re-
signed ease and influence in America
to endure hardships and poverty in
his native land; but the Lord gave
him twice as much as he had before
and blessed his latter end more than
his beginning"
And he, who might have become
Lord or Bishop of "The Blooming
Rose" overlooking the silvery Yough-
iogheny, died at EPSON, England, in
1904.
SAMUEL CHASE, A SIGNER
Samuel Chase was born in Somerset
county, Maryland, April IT, 1741. His
father was Rev. Thomas Chase, an
English immigrant. Samuel studied
law in Annapolis and was admitted
to the bar and made his home in the
Capital City.
William Paca was also a member
Of the bar in Annapolis prior to the
Revolutionary War and an intimate
friend of Chase's.
Samuel Chase, when only twenty
five years of age, was leader of the
mob" (The Sons of Liberty which
destroyed the Government stamps at
Annapolis. He was active in the events
of Maryland leading up to the Revolu-
ton, an ardent patriot and one of the
signers of the Declaration of 1ndepen-
dence. He was member of the CONT
mental Congress and as one Of the
Maryland Committee of Safety, was
noted for his prosecution, or persecu-
ton, of Tories, such as Rev. Jonathan
Boucher, and of the Quakers, who re-"
fused to fight
After the Revolution, Chase moved
to Baltimore and died there in 1893.
He y1,ifo ,,,oe Ann Baldwin of AMMAN