Evening star., 1941-08-31

the old observatory grounds, and was
most likely adjacent to Hamburg, since
the western boundary of the town was
probably at Twenty-third street. The
eastern line ran approximately between
Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, the
northern line was about where is H
street, and it extended southwark from
there to the river AS was done with
the owners of lots in Carrollsburg, an
equal exchange was made by the Gov
ernment with owners of property In
Hamburg the locating being as near
the same ground as possible.
Some Lot Owners.
The writer knows there are many
people in Washington who are keenly
interested in genealogy, particularly in
their own family histories, and for this
reason he copied the names of some of
those who owned lots in this proposed
town nearly $50 years ago, and who were
among the earliest settlers of what Is
now a part of the District of Columbia.
They were evidently residents of George
town, or of nearby Maryland, for as will
be seen, considerable number of their
family names are familiar in this To-
cality. They include John Mountz,
Thomas Johns, French and Marr, Baltis
Font, James Beall of James, Robert Alli-
son, James M. Lingan, Christian Kemp,
Anthony Holmead, Thomas Beatty, sr.;
Michael Nichols, Henry Yoel, Henry
Klinger, John Kephart, W. Regan,
devisee of Joshua; Christian Orindorf.
William M. Beall, Michael Gross, John
j. Leroy, Thomas o. Williams, Margaret
Beard, Michael Gangaware, Jacob
Thornton, Francis Cost, Benjamin Stod-
dert, Matthias Buckle, assignee of Michael
Ramer; Aaron Ritenover, James Wells,
John Hackett, Philip H. Mires, Benja-
min Spiker, James Kirk, Joakim
.Streeves, Dr. P. Thomas, Jacob Boyer
John McDade, John Spoor, Lorwick
Kemp, Samuel Porter, James Sterrett,
Conrad Merkle, William Gerard, John
and A. Rench, Jonathan Hager, Conrad
Doll, J. Hoof, Casper MantZ, Andrew
Kesler, Frederick Mosley, William Muir
dock Beall, Charles Shell, William and
Eliza Waugh, heirs of B. Wigell, one
half, and A. Fishers heirs, one-half; D.
Reintzel, for Calvanist Society; Mar
shain Warning, George HolStine, John
Rohrer, Henry Pauling, Walter Baker,
Evan Thomas Casper Youst, Robert
Peter, Frederick Hocandofer, George
Murdock, William McGrath, Henry
Coontz, Nicholas Kinsor. John Walamot,
Adam OFT, John Hemell, Andrew Link,
Christian Lowen, Joseph Garlick, P. Nc
Mahon, Samuel Blodget, Elias Yonhman,
Henry Hilleary, jr.; John Rover, B.
Stoddert, William Buddicomb, Valentine
Hoof, William Deakin, Gilbert Kemp,
Daniel Hester, Frederick Golden's heirs,
Charles Beatty, Matthias Ritenover, Elias
Dawson. Henry McClary, A. Fleak, S.
Miller, Frederick Kemp, Peter and F.
Curtis, Rev. Mr. Golden, George Holstine,
Henry Warman, w. HELEN, Martin Cas-
ner Hezikiah Clagot, Henry Sneberly,
Frederick Mann, Michael Stoker, John
Hass, devisee. Thomas Cramphen; Mr.
Hatfield. DR.. Philips Thomas, Philip
Sybert, Benjamin Spiker, William Side
bottom, Joshua johnson, William Dea-
kins, jr.; Daniel Ragan, Stoddert and
Deakins. John Mantz, George Swingle.
Michael Ramer, Amos Smith, Freder-
ick Curtis, John Comp, John Wilmore,
jr.; Christian Lower, Samuel Craiger,
Robert Peter, Joseph Doll, Thomas
Price, Jacob Maddart, Samuel Liday,
George F. Hawkins, Joseph w. Chiswell,
Christian Kemp, John Beall, Jacob Zet-
ter, Charles Worthington, Lutheran
Congregation, John Sholman, John
Syle, Appelona Whitehair, heirs of
George; John Mantz, Charles Schel, ia
cob Young, John Tilly, Mrs. johnson,
Jacob Hess George Winters, Henry Um-
hults, George Linginfetter, William
King, James Terrell, William and Eliza
Waugh, heirs of B. Vigil; F. Fishers
heirs, Martin Hoffman, Edward Skinner,
Christian Edelin,, George Striker, Patrick
Manual and wife, Gilbert Kemp, Samuel
Snowden, Robert Peter, Thomas john
son, Col. William Deakins, Michael
Bayner, T. Beall, Levi Deakins, Peter
Kemp, Christian Schells heirs, Charles
Schell, John Winters, Thomas Cram
phin, John Shillman, Richard Snowden,
David Harry, Charles Beatty, Peter Ham,
Anthony Biting, Joshua johnson, VAL
entine Reintzell, Christian Lower, P. j.
Mantz, David Isaac, Leonard Reed, Law
renee ONeal Henry Walter, Brooke
Beall. Samuel Miller and Henry Stall.
Hines Was Resident.
Christian Hines, who died in 1874, and
who published his Early RecOllectionS of
Washington City," in 1866, lived for
few years within the boundaries of old
Hamburg, where his father the writer's
great-great- -grandfather), John Hines,
moved in December, 1799 OF this Mr.
Hines says:
1.-The first house we lived in was an old
two-story frame on F street north, be-
tween Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
streets west. This house is standing yet,
and is now owned and occupied by a
colored man named Foster. At that
time Washington might have been truly
called the city of magnificent distances.
Our neighbors we're few and far between,
the nearest being William King, Esq,
who then lived in brick house near the
corner of F and Twentieth streets, re-
Gently owned and occupied by Joseph
Forrest, Esq. Thus I again became a
citizen of Washington at about the age
of Is years. The greatest dificulty we
experienced then was in getting watess