The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-06-23
SOME OF The EARLY LAND
SPECTATORS in GARRETT
PAUL HOVE AND HIS SONS

(1736-1816), only son of James and
Tabitha Marbury Hoye, finally set
tied on Frog Harbor," near Williams
port, Md.
Tabitha Marbury married, second
William Deakins, and Paul Hoye, with
his half-brothers, William, Jr., and
Francis Deakins became intereted in
the lands westward of Fort Cumber-
land"
In 1774 he secured from Lord Balti-
more a warrant for 1000 acres of land
for which he paid fifty pounds sterling
caution money" In the same year
with other land spectators, he came
to Western Frederick county, now
Garrett, and surveyed four tracts of
land: "Crab Tree Bottom" and
Friends Delight" on the Ginseng
Run; Shawnee War;" later the
Ridgely plantation, south of Grants
vile, and Carmel" in the Green
Glades.
During the Revolutionary War,
Paul Hoye served as a first lieutenant
in the State militia, and after the war
patented several tracts Of land in
Virginia and Maryland, including
"The Gleanings," 5144 acres, which
extended from near McHenry down
the Grab Tree (now Hoye's) Run and
the Youghiogheny Valley to Friends
vile.
Paul Hoye married Marian Waller,
of Virginia. Their children were Ann
Elizabeth, William Waller and John.
William w. Hoye became a survey
or and first settled in Cumberland
where he and Samuel Selby Sd con-
Quoted a mercantile business. In 1887
William w. Hoye was one of the ten
surveyors employed by Colonel Fran
sic Deakins to assist him to survey the
Military Lots westward of Fort Cum
berland.
In 1896 William W. Hoye married
Eleanor, daughter of James Slicer, of
Cumberland, and three years later
they settled on Crab Tree Bottom, now
the Joseph Sebold farm at Sang Run.
John Hoye (1774-1849) went into
the land business with his half-uncle,
Francis Deakins, in Georgetown, now
part of Washington City.
Francis and William Deakins, Jr.,
had no children. They willed parts of
their extensive estates to the half
brother, Paul Hoye, who, in 1905,
decided his share to his son John, who
was also the executor of the Francis
Deakins estate.
In order to be nearer to the lands
which he controlled in Allegany coun-
ty and in Virginia in 1918 John Hoye
moved to Cumberland where he soon
married Mary daughter of Captain
George Gaines. They resided in what
is now the Christian Science church,
adjoining the Court House. This
house, one of the Oldest in Cumber-
land, was built by George Dent, in
1896.
a In cooperation with his brother Will
liam, John Hoye engaged in patent
ing and selling lands in Western
Maryland. Thomas, in his history re-
fers to John Hoye as "the land king
Of Allegany County"
The late Alexander c. Mason, of
u Oakland, is our authority for the story
that once George Rinehart, pioneer
settler at Sunnyside, and his neigh
bors, were discussing whether or not
the moon was inhabited, when Rine-
hart remarked that he did not believe
M it was, because" he said, "if there IS
habitable land on the moon John Hoye
would patent it."
The Hoyes patented from the State
some hundred tracts Of land in Allie
gany county, which then included Gar
rett. John Hoye left an estate of about
$4,000 acres of land.
While the Hoyes were spectators,
"A they were also settlers and did much
rs to develop Allegany county. John
Hoye had several farms cleared. lie
was actively interested in the build
ing of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
"A and in locating the Baltimore and OHIO
~ Railroad He fenced the glades toi
cattle. The site of Mountain Lake
Park was part of "John Hoye's Cow
Pasture"
John Hoye had only one child
y George Gainesville died in early
u manhood.
William w. Hoye married, second
Mary, daughter of John Rutan, Of the
Blooming Rose. He became the father
Of twenty-one children, fourteen OF
whom grew up and were married. lie
was a kind father and an obliglng
nighbor, but a very careless business
imam. He died in 1886 and John took
over the care of his brothers large
family.
John Hoye was executor Of the Will
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