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Harford County, Maryland
Biographies
ARCHER, John
(1741—1810)
John ARCHER, (father of Stevenson Archer [1786-1848] and
grandfather of Stevenson Archer [1827-1898]), a Representative from Maryland; born near Churchville, Harford (then
Baltimore) County, Md., May 5, 1741; attended the West Nottingham Academy in Cecil County and was graduated from
Princeton College in 1760; studied theology, but owing to a throat affection abandoned the same and began the study
of medicine; was graduated as a physician from the College of Philadelphia in 1768, receiving the first medical
diploma issued on the American continent; commenced the practice of his profession in Harford County in 1769; member
of the Revolutionary committee 1774-1776; raised a military company during the Revolution; member of the first
State constitutional convention of 1776; served in the State house of delegates 1777-1779; during the Revolutionary
War was aide-de-camp to Gen. Anthony Wayne at Stony Point; June 1, 1779, was made a captain and subsequently a
major in the Continental Army; elected as a Republican to the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses (March 4, 1801-March
3, 1807); founded with his son, Dr. Thomas Archer, the medical and chirurgical faculty of Maryland in 1799; died
at his country home, ‘Medical Hall,’ near Churchville, Harford County, Md., September 28, 1810; interment in the
Presbyterian Cemetery, Churchville, Md.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,
1771-Present - Submitted by Anna Newell
DR. JOHN ARCHER, M. B., son of Thomas Archer, was born near Churchville,
in Harford county (then Baltimore county), May 5, 1741. His grandfather, John Archer, came to America from
the vicinity of Londonderry, Ireland, in the early part of the eighteenth century. The family is said to
have descended from John de Archer, who came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066, as it is said all the
Archers in Great Britain were descended from him. Dr. John Archer was the sole survivor of five children,
all the others having died of a malignant fever in infancy, he narrowly escaping death at the same time.
He is the ancestor of all the Archers of that family now residing in Harford county. He attended school at
Nottingham Academy, in Cecil county, where he was a classmate of Dr. Benjamin Rush. In 1760 he graduated
at Princeton with the degree of A. B., and in 1763 received from the same college the degree of A. M.
He studied theology, but on account of a throat affection which impaired his speech, and for other reasons,
he was not well qualified for the ministry, and he turned his attention to the study of medicine. He attended
lectures at the College of Philadelphia, the forerunner of the present University of Pennsylvania. On October
18, 1766, he married Catherine, daughter of Thomas Harris, who lived nearby. In the recess of the college
Dr. Archer practiced medicine in New Castle county, Del. On June 21, 1768, he graduated as a physician, and
as his name came first on the list of the first graduating class, Dr. Archer received the first medical degree
ever conferred in America.
In July, 1769, he commenced the practice of his profession in Harford county. He grew rapidly in professional
reputation and in the esteem of his neighbors. He took a prominent part in public affairs at the time of
the Revolution, organizing on September 16, 1776, a military company at Churchville, and his name is subscribed
to the famous Bush declaration. On November 27, 1776, he was chosen an elector for the Senate of Maryland
and a member of a committee of observation for Harford county. He was also a delegate to the first constitutional
convention of the State, which met at Annapolis in 1776, and which was presided over by Matthew Tilghman.
His Harford colleagues in that convention were Jacob Bond, Henry Wilson, Jr., and John Love. This convention
also drew up and adopted the bill of rights. In 1776 Dr.
John Archer and Gabriel Duval were chosen as presidential electors for the State of Maryland. In 1800 he
was elected to Congress by the party of Jefferson, and was re-elected in 1802. His skill as a physician was
frequently called into service during his term in Washington as a member of Congress. He died suddenly September
28, 1810, honored and respected by all who knew him. He was the author of many articles on medicine and surgery,
and was an eminent authority in his day in his profession. He was the preceptor of a number of distinguished
physicians who came after him, and his house, near Churchville, was at times like a medical college, so numerous
were the young men who sought his tuition. He was the father of Jude Stevenson Archer, who was chief justice
of the State. In addition to the public offices held by Dr. Archer, as stated above, he was one of the first
of the Lords Justices of this county. His portrait may be seen in the courtroom at Bel Air.
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore,
Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
ARCHER, Stevenson
(1786—1848)
ARCHER, Stevenson, (son of John Archer and father of Stevenson
Archer [1827-1898]), a Representative from Maryland; born at ‘Medical Hall,’ near Churchville, Harford County,
Md., October 11, 1786; attended Nottingham Academy, Maryland, and was graduated from Princeton College in 1805;
studied law; was admitted to the bar of Harford County in 1808 and commenced practice the same year; member of
the State house of delegates 1809-1810; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of John Montgomery; reelected to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses and served from October
26, 1811, to March 3, 1817; chairman, Committee on Claims (Thirteenth Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of the Navy (Fourteenth Congress); paymaster to the Fortieth Maryland Militia during the War of 1812;
appointed on March 5, 1817, by President Madison as United States judge for the Territory of Mississippi, with
powers of Governor, holding court at St. Stephens; resigned within a year and returned to Maryland and practiced
law; elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of the Navy (Sixteenth Congress); appointed chief judge of the judicial circuit court of Baltimore and
Harford Counties and Baltimore city in 1823; in 1844 was appointed by Governor Pratt as chief justice of the Maryland
Court of Appeals and served until his death at ‘Medical Hall,’ near Churchville, Harford County, Md., June 26,
1848; interment in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Churchville, Md.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,
1771-Present - Submitted by Anna Newell
ARCHER, Stevenson
(1827—1898)
ARCHER, Stevenson, (son of Stevenson Archer [1786-1848] and grandson of John Archer), a Representative from Maryland;
born at ‘Medical Hall,’ near Churchville, Harford County, Md., February 28, 1827; attended Bel Air Academy, and
was graduated from Princeton College in 1848; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practice
the same year; member of the State house of delegates in 1854; elected as a Democrat to the Fortieth and to the
three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1874; engaged
in the practice of his chosen profession in Bel Air, Md., until his death on August 2, 1898; interment in the Presbyterian
Cemetery, Churchville, Md.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,
1771-Present - Submitted by Anna Newell
BOND, JACOB
The first of this family to take up land within the
limits of what is now known as Harford county, was Peter Bond, of Anne Arundel, who came into the colony in
the year 1660. He acquired Pleasant Hills, on both sides of the Patapsco, about the mouth of Gwynn's Falls,
now included in the city of Baltimore, and patented Harris' Trust, and in 1691 purchased the adjacent tract
called Prosperity, lying on both sides of Bush river. He was twice married, and died in 1705,
leaving sons Peter, Thomas, William and John, the two last named being minor children of his second wife, who,
after a brief of mourning (1707), married Philip Washington. Peter Bond, as heir, succeeded to all the estate
of his father except Prosperity and Harris' Trust, which were divided between the three younger sons.
Thomas had already settled in Harford county, and in 1700 married Anne Robertson, of Anne Arundel.
He patented, in 1703, Knaves Misfortune, adjacent to the tracts above mentioned, where he built a substantial house
in which he lived until his death. This house was on the site of the residence of Mr. John R. Spencer, near
Emmorton. The old Bond house is said to have been built of brick imported from England, and part of it was
standing up to the time of the erection of the present dwelling by Mr. Lee Magness, about twenty years ago.
Thomas Bond died in 1756. This old house is said to have been used as a small pox hospital about the time
of the Revolution. Thomas Bond lies buried near the house and the location of his grave is still known.
In 1714 he patented Bond's Forest, of three thousand one hundred acres, lying between Bynum's run and the
Little Gunpowder Falls, and purchased Cheapside and Poplar Ridge, with other tracts, amounting to about three thousand
acres. In 1705 he received five thousand acres, lying in Baltimore county, on the west side of the Susquehanna
river, called Bond's Manor. In 1739 he sold a portion of this land to Capt. Thomas Cresap, who thus became
involved in the boundary dispute, from which William Penn emerged crowned with success.
Thomas Bond, in 1749, conveyed to his sons Thomas and John, as trustees, part of Bond's Forest, to be laid
out conveniently near the main road, including "a house now built intended for a meeting house for the people
called Quakers to worship God in, and also a schoolhouse already built."
The records of Gunpowder Meeting show acceptance of this deed in 1753. This was the beginning of the
Little Falls Meeting at Fallston.
He was a member of the celebrated grand jury which protested against the removal of the county seat from
the Forks of Gunpowder to Joppa, denouncing it as "a palpable, notorious grievance to this county."
Thomas died in 1755, having previously settled each of his sons in comfortable houses on "plantations,"
and divided his lands among his eight children. His eldest son Thomas married Elizabeth Scott, and was the
ancestor of large families of Jarrets, Amos, Bosley, Howards and Munnikhuysens.
John married Alice Ann Webster, whose descendants are Fells, Lees, Wilsons and Bradfords.
Joshua married Anne Partridge, and was the ancestor of many Lees, Morris, Morrisons and Howards.
Jacob married Fanny Partridge, and fro him are descended Prestons, Wilmers, Abbotts, Gittings, Hollands and
McCormicks. Sarah Married William Fell, whose descendants are Fells, Fews, Dabs, Kennards, Dorseys and Johnsons.
Ann married Edward Fell, and afterwards Giles, and from her are descended Giles and Johnsons.
John, son of Thomas, who married Alice Ann Webster, joined his father-in-law in organizing the Bush River
Company, which erected one of the first iron furnaces in the colonies.
Thomas, son of John, married Rebecca, daughter of Tobias Stansbury. He was justice of the peace and
judge of the Orphans' Court, and a zealous adherent of the Methodist church.
His eldest son John was an itinerant preacher, and the friend and companion of Bishop Asbury.
His son was Dr. Thomas E. Bond, Sr., a very celebrated preacher and editor of the Christian Advocate, the
latter being the father of Dr. Thomas E. Bond, the younger, and Judge Hugh Lennox Bond, recently deceased. The
most prominent of the Bonds from the standpoint of Harford history, was Jacob, who died in Nov., 1780.
He was prominent member of the Committee of Harford County in the Revolution, having been elected by the people,
and was captain of Company Eleven, of Harford militia, in the Revolution, the other officers being Thomas
Johnson, first lieutenant; James McComas, second lieutenant, and Martin Preston, ensign.
Jacob Bond represented Harford county in the convention which met at Annapolis in 1776 and formed the first constitution
ofthe State, his colleagues there being Henry Wilson, Jr., John Love and John Archer.
He was also one of Harford's representives in the Annapolis convention of June 22, 1774, which protested against
the tax on tea, his Harford colleagues being Richard Dallam, John Love, Thomas Bond, John Paca and Benedict Edward
Hall.
His children were: Jacob Bond, Jr.; Sarah, wife of Bernard Preston; Martha; Charlotte; Ralph; Dennis,
the father of Dr. Elijah Bond; Ann; Priscilla.
His will, dated Oct. 2, 1780, is recorded in the Orphans' Court at Bel Air.
Bernard Preston, who married Sarah Bond, above named, was born in 1756. He built the large stone house
between Bel Air and Hickory now owned by Mr. John B. Wysong, his great-grandson. Bernard's father was James
Preston, born in 1713, and the latter's father was the first settler on that property, viz., James Preston, the
son of James Preston, who was the son of Thomas, named in the will of Richard Preston of Patuxent as "Thomas
Preston of the Cliffs."
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore, Md.
:: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
BRADFORD, WILLIAM , SR.,
was of English ancestry, his family having come originally from Yorkshire, where Bradfords bearing the same family
arms were found upon the Manor of that name, in the reign of Henry III. He was the son of William Bradford
and Elizabeth Lightbody, who came to Maryland early in the eighteenth century, and settled upon land at the head
of Bush river. His father was one of the early schoolmasters of the colony. He was commissioned by
the Bishop of London to teach on the plantations and became later on a soldier in the Colonial Army with the rank
of captain.
The subject of this sketch was born in 1739 at his father’s home place, on Bynum’s Run, just across which
lived his near neighbor, Aquila Hall. He obtained a good education under his father’s tuition, and he also
received an early training in the doctrine of the Christian religion, in which his family had for generations had
been more or less conspicuous. His father had been registrar, clerk and vestryman in St. John’s Parrish,
and he succeeded him as a member of the same vestry. His paternal grandfather was John Bradford, a merchant
of London, whose brother, Samuel Bradford, was Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, and his paternal grandmother
was Mary Skinner, daughter of Matthew Skinner, M. D., of London, and a granddaughter of Robert Skinner, Bishop
of Bristol. Several of his ancestors had also been closely connected in an official way with St. Ann’s Parish,
London. His paternal great grandfather, William Bradford, was a parish officer therein during the great plague
of 1665, and of whom it is recorded that “so conscientious was he in the performance of his duties that he remained
in London, giving his personal attention to the sick and dying, though he removed his family to Islington.”
The latter’s only children were, as stated above, John and Samuel, and a daughter Hannah, who married Joseph
Presbury, of London, and whose son, James Presbury, came to Maryland and settled near his cousin, William Bradford.
He was the ancestor of the Presbury family of Maryland.
William Bradford, Sr., became a pronounced patriot, as did also his only brother, George Bradford.
Both he and his brother were elected members of the Harford Committee of 1775, the latter of whom would, no doubt,
have been a signer, too, of Harford’s “Declaration of Independence” had he been present at the time.
The “senior” which William Bradford suffixed to his name when he signed the declaration, and which was something
unusual for him to do, was to designate him from his nephew of the same name, who was also an ardent patriot and
a lieutenant in Capt. Alexander Lawson Smith’s Company of Fort Washington fame. It was an earnest of the
intense responsibility which he assumed when he so solemnly pledged himself to the sacred cause of his country.
In September, 1775, he organized Company No. 13 of Harford minute men, and was its captain. He was married
in 1764 to Sarah McComas, to whom were born eleven children, one of whom, Samuel Bradford, married Jane Bond, and
lived for many years in Bel Air. Samuel was the father of Augustus W. Bradford, Governor of Maryland during
the Civil War.
William Bradford lived adjoining his brother upon a tract containing about three hundred acres, called “Littleton,”
where he died in 1794.
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore, Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted
by Sharon Wick)
CALWELL, SAMUEL
was born in Harford (then Baltimore) county, of Irish
and Scotch parentage, and was a resident of Bush River Lower Hundred, at that time one of the largest districts
in the county. He married Ann Richardson, whose family was a prominent one locally, and lived for many years
on a farm called the Grove, on Winter’s run, near the present Almshouse, a part of this land being now in the possession
of Mr. George Steigler. His life seems to have been a quiet and uneventful one, as few reminiscences have
been handed down to his descendants.
In February, 1775, he was elected a member of the Committee of Harford County to represent, with nine other
members, the Bush River Lower Hundred, and was present at Harford Township on March 22, 1775, when he signed the
memorable declaration of that date. Samuel Calwell survived that interesting event about twenty-five years
and died in the year 1800.
One of his sons, James Calwell, migraged to Virginia, and was the founder and owner of the Greenbrier White
Sulpher Springs, which he conducted for many years, helping to make it one of the most celebrated summer resorts
in the United States, and some of his descendants are still living there.
Another son, William, established himself as a merchant in Bel Air, and died in the early part of the last
century.
A third son, Thomas, removed to Baltimore and establishsed large and successful flour mills there.
The last named was the father of sixteen children, some of those descendants are still living in Baltimore and
Harford counties and in other states. A grandson, Joseph Cushing Calwell, a retired merchant, is living in
Brooklyn, N. Y.; another grandson, William G. Wetherall, whose father’s family settled in Harford over a century
ago, is a prominent iron merchant of Baltimore city, and James S. Calwell, member of the bar of Baltimore, whose
summer home is in Harford, is another grandson, whose children by his marriage with the daughter and only child
of the late Daniel Scott and his wife, Cordelia Scott (nee Norris), are descendants of three signers of the Harford
declaration, that noble band of patriots who risked their lives and fortunes that they and their posterity might
enjoy constitutional government, viz: Samuel Calwell, Daniel Scott and Benjamin Bradford Norris.
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore,
Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
COLEMAN, REV. JOHN
An early settler in Harford county was Rev. John Coleman, a Protestant Episcopal clergyman and a soldier of the
Revolutionary War. He was usually known as "Parson" Coleman, and many traditions of him still remain
among descendants of his former parishioners in Baltimore and Harford counties. He was a native of Dinwiddie
county, Va., and studied for the ministry under the supervision of Rev. Devereux Jarrett, of that county and State,
whose autobiography, in the shape of letters addressed to Rev. Mr. Coleman, was published by the latter after the
death of Mr. Jarrett. Mr. Coleman was ready for ordination into the ministry at the time, or shortly after
the breaking out of the War of Independence. His clerical intentions, however, did not prevent his taking
part with his fellow-countrymen in that struggle, and he and a brother accordingly joined the patriotic forces.
They chanced to be serving under Gen. Anthony Wayne, in Chester county, Pa., when that terrible massacre was perpetrated
near what was Known as Paoli Tavern, on the Lancaster road. In giving an account of the affair, Lossing,
in his book of the Revolution, says in substance:
“Gen. Wayne lay encamped with fifteen hundred men and two cannon in a secluded spot on the night of September
20, 1777. The British General Howe, at the time occupying Philadelphia, was informed by a Tory of the situation,
and sent Gen. Grey with a large force to surprise the camp at midnight and slaughter the patriot forces.
The night proved to be dark and stormy, and our forces were taken completely unawares and butchered by the bayonet,
no quarter under orders of the Commander Grey being shown to those denominated rebels. A Hessian sergeant
afterwards said: ‘We killed three hundred of the rebels with the bayonet. I stuck them my self like
so many pigs until the blood ran out of the touch hole of my musket.’ ‘Remember Paoli!’ was after this adopted
as a war cry by Wayne’s forces on many a field, where the massacre was in part at least avenged.”
The subject of this sketch fortuitously escaped death on the occasion referred to, but his brother was among
the slain. Mr. Coleman, after the war, went to England, and was there ordained for the ministry. He
came shortly afterwards to Maryland, and was pastor for a number of years at Trinity Church, near Long Green Valley,
and the Manor Church (St. James), and also at St. Thomas’ Church, Garrison Forest, all in Baltimore county.
He afterwards removed to Harford, having in the meanwhile married Pleasance Goodwin, a niece of Gen. Charles Ridgely,
of Hampton. This gentleman presented to the newly married couple a valuable farm of about three hundred acres,
divided into several properties, situated near Watervale, about three miles west of Bel Air, purchased from Lemuel
Howard, whereon Parson Coleman lived with his family until his death, in the year 1816. It was during his
ministry in this parish that Christ Church (Rock Spring) was built in the year 1805, and he became its first rector,
and so remained during the balance of his life. Six children were born to hi but the only daughter, Rebecca
Ridgely, was the only child that survived to years of maturity. She married Capt. John Yellott, of Dulaney’s
Valley, Baltimore county, and was the mother of Mary Anderson, wife of Rev. John Anderson; Elizabeth Maynadier,
wife of Henry G. Maynadier, Jeremiah, John, George, Coleman and Washington Yellott. Of these only Hon. Gorge
Yellott, of Towson, lately chief judge of the Third Judicial Circuit, survives. The descendants of others,
however, still remain in Baltimore and Harford counties, among whom are Hon. Geo. Y. Maynadier, of Harford; Major
John I. Yellott, and Geo. W. Hellott, of Baltimore county, and Mrs. E. L. F. Hardcastle, of Talbot county.
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore,
Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
DALLAM, RICHARD
One of the most prominent men in Harford during the Revolution was Richard Dallam, who was the ancestor of the
family of Dallams now residing in this county. The first Dallam also born the name of Richard, and was a
nephew of Sarah Jennings, first Duchess of Marlborough. He came from England about the beginning of the eighteenth
century, and settled at Joppa, where he practiced law. The subject of this sketch was one of his four sons.
The latter served in the Revolutionary War as paymaster, with the title of general of this district. In the
Annapolis Convention of June 22, 1774, which protested against the tax on tea, Richard Dallam represented Harford
county, his colleagues from this county being John Love, Thomas Bond, John Paca, Edward Hall and Jacob Bond.
He also signed the Bush declaration on March 1775.
He was one of the commissioners named in the dedimus for the formation of the new county in 1773-04.
He lived in Abingdon in 1786. In a letter from Rev. Thomas Coke to Rev. Mr. Meath, written from Southampton,
England, Jan. 23, 1786, requesting the latter to accept the position of head master at Cokesbury College, we find
this: "There are several of our principal friends live in the neighborhood (Abingdon). One Family
(Mr. Dallam's) you'll find very agreeable.
He died in March, 1805.
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore,
Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
HALL, AQUILA
was born in Harford, then Baltimore county, Jan. 10, 1727. He was a son of Aquila, who was the youngest son
of John Hall, of Cranberry, and was one of the most prominent of all the men of Harford in the early days.
In 1763 he was elected to the House of Delegates to represent Baltimore county, his colleagues being Charles Ridgely,
Thomas C. Deye and Walter Tolley. In 1762 he was sheriff of Baltimore county. Aquila Hall is the second
in the list of commissioners named by the Act of Assembly for the formation of Harford county. By virtue
of the Dedimus indorsed on the commission for forming the new county, he administered the oaths to his fellow-justices
on the first day of the organization of the county government, March 22, 1774, his colleagues on the bench being
Thomas Bond, Jeremiah Sheredine, Benedict Edward Hall, William Webb and Aquila Paca.
The first court for the county was held in a house at Harford Town, or Bush, owned by him or occupied by
Tomas Miller, who was named as sheriff of the county.
In the famous Bush declaration of March, 1775, the name of Aquila Hall is the first on the list. He
was zealous in the cause of his country in the Revolution, and on September 9, 1775, organized a military company,
of which he was elected captain, with Samuel Griffith, first lieutenant; Jacob Forwood, second lieutenant, and
John Chancey, ensign.
On June 11, 1774, he presided over a meeting at Bush, at which resolutions were passed expressing sympathy
with Boston in her tax troubles, and at which a committee was appointed to meet the committees of other counties
in this province to consult and agree on the most effectual means to preserve our constitutional rights and liberties,
etc.
By the State Convention, which convened Dec. 7, 1775, resolutions were passed Jan. 1, 1776, looking to the
formation of a proper military force for the State, and for the Upper Battalion of Harford, Aquila Hall was named
as colonel, with John Love as lieutenant-colonel; Josias Carvil Hall, first major; Dr. John Archer, second major,
and Richard Dallam, quartermaster.
The General Assembly on Jun. 29, 1777, selected lieutenants for the various counties, and Aquila Hall was
named for Harford.
The last record of Aquila Hall in public life is to be found in the meeting of the court at Bush, Mar. 23,
1779, at which time he was present as one of the Lords Justices. He died in April, 1779, leaving the following
children, viz: Thomas Hall, James White Hall, William Hall, John Hall, Edward Hall, Charlotte Hall, Mary
Hall, Sophia Hall and Martha Hall.
His wife was his first cousin, Sophia, daughter of Col. Thomas White, whom he married Feb. 14, 1750, and
who died in 1785, aged fifty-four years.
Aquila Hall built the large brick house at “Sophia’s Dairy” in 1768.
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore,
Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
MORGAN, WILLIAM
was born in 1744 near the Trappe Church, in Harford
county, ans was the son of Edward Morgan, who had come to that section three years previously. Part of the
house in which William was born in still standing. He married Cassandra Lee, a Quakeress, daughter of James
Lee, and was the father of nine children, viz: Elizabeth, who married Thos. S. Chew; Sarah, who married Joseph
Hopkins; Cassandra, wife of Zacheus O. Bond; Edward Morgan; Elliner, who married John Hopkins; Martha, who remained
single, and Margaret, also unmarried. William Morgan owned large tracts of land on Deer Creek, among his
lands being “Simmon’s Choice,” “Simmon’s Neglect,” “Freeland’s Mount,” “Planters’ Paradise,” part of “Arabia Petrea,”
“Miller’s Attempt.” He died in Nov., 1795, at the age of fifty-one years.
William Morgan was a man of great prominence in his day, and his career shows the public estimation in which
he was held. The archives of Maryland show that he was commissioned a captain in the Revolution. He
was also a signer of the Bush declaration of Mar. 1775. His will is recorded in the office of the Register
of Wills at Bel Air, and his signature is as bold and clear as on the day it was signed – Nov. 5, 1795. The
executors named in his will were his brother, Robert Morgan, and Edward Prigg. The personal estate, as exhibited
in the Orphans’ Court, was about twenty thousand dollars, which, with his large landed interest, indicates that
he was a rich man. A number of his descendants now reside in Harford, and are all people of influence and
prominence.
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore,
Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
NORRIS, BENJAMIN BRADFORD
About the year 1690, Benjamin Norris, the elder, settled
in Harford county, (then Baltimore county), and lived at a farm he named Everly Hills, now owned by the Hon. Herman
Stump, and called by him Waverly. He became possessed of a tract of land extending from Bynum's Run, in a
section back of what is now the Farnandis estate, to the Little Falls.
Benjamin Bradford Norris was the first of the name, being called after his grandfathers, Benjamin Norris
and William Bradford, the Christian name of one and the family name of the other.
John Norris was the father of a large family, seven of whom were sons. His eldest son John married
Susanna Bradford. They had the first house that was ever built at Mt. Pleasant, now the home of Mr. G. Smith
Norris. Part of this house is still standing. It was built early in the eighteenth century. John's
eldest son was Benjamin Bradford Norris, who was educated in Harford. Bradford Norris married ELizabeth Richardson.
The two had quite a large family; only two sons, however. Bradford Norris was one of the signers of the Harford
Declaration of Independence. He was also a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, and served in a company raised
and commanded by his brother, Jacob Norris, who became a colonel. They were with Washington in his campaign
in Delaware and Jersey. Jacob Norris was severely wounded, and received a pension for the balance of his
life. He was buried in the Methodist graveyard in Bel Air. The headstone bears the following inscription:
DIED
IN MARCH, 1807,
JACOB NORRIS,
AN OFFICER
OF THE 6TH MARYLAND REGIMENT
IN THE WAR OF THE
REVOLUTION.
TO HIS MEMORY THIS PILLAR IS RAISED
BY HIS DAUGHTER SOPHIA.
Benjamin Bradford Norris was very highly esteemed by the people of his community, and was appointed to represent
them in the first Legislature that was convened after the State government was established. Of his sons,
one died in infancy, and the other died of yellow fever in Norfolk at the age of twenty-one.
Benjamin Bradford Norris died in April, 1790, and his administrators were Elizabeth Norris and Jacob Norris.
One of Jacob Norris' sons was a commander in the United States Navy, and was lost at sea on the Hornet.
John Norris, another of the brothers Norris, was one of the incorporators, and represented the Church of
England when Union Chapel was built near Wilna.
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore, Md.
:: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
PACA, WILLIAM
WILLIAM PACA, the second son of John Paca, was born
near Abingdon, in what is now Harford county, Oct. 31, 1740. He was educated at the College of Philadelphia,
where he graduated June 8, 1759, and on Jan. 14, 1762, he was admitted as a student of law at the Middle Temple,
London. After completing his studies there he entered the office of Stephen Bordley, and on April 11,
1764, he commenced the practice of his profession at Annapolis. He, however, retained his connection with
his native county, and represented Harford in the State of Convention of 1788, which ratified the constitution
of the United States. His colleagues from Harford in that convention were Luther Martin, William Pinkney
and John Love. In 1771 he was elected a member of the provincial Legislature, and was elected to the first
and second Continental Congresses. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776.
On the adoption of the first State constitution he was made a Senator for two
years. In 1778 he was appointed chief judge of the Superior Court of Maryland, which office be held
until 1780, when he became chief judge of the Court of Appeals in prize and admiralty cases. In 1782 he was
elected Governor of Maryland. In 1786 he sat in Congress for a short time, and in the same year was reelected
as Governor. In 1789 he was appointed judge of the United States Court for Maryland, which position he held
at the time of his death, in 1799. He married a daughter of Samuel Chew as his first wife. His
second wife was Anna Harrison, of Philadelphia. His portrait hangs over the judge's seat in the courtroom
at Bell Air, and he and Governor Augustus W. Bradford were, in point of public service, the most distinguished
men ever born in Harford.
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore,
Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
SCOTT, DANIEL
was a native of Harford, being one of the seven children
of Aquila Scott, whose ancestors for generations had been planters and large landowners in Baltimore and Harford
counties, one of them having given the land to Baltimore county on which the first courthouse at Joppa was built,
and when Harford was established and the new county seat was chosen at Scott’s Oldfields, now Bel Air, the subject
of the present sketch conveyed to the county the ground upon which the courthouse and jail are still standing.
He was the surveyor of the county and was elected a member of the Committee of Harford from Bush River Lower
Hundred, and was one of the signers of Harford’s famous declaration.
Daniel Scott died about the year 1828, leaving an only child, Otho Scott, who became the leading member of
the bar of Harford county and one of the most distinguished lawyers in Maryland.
The latter, in 1860, codified the Laws of Maryland, condensing into two volumes all the varied and unskillfully
framed laws passed in the State since its foundation. The Code of 1860 stands as a monument to his memory,
many leading lawyers pronouncing it the best code ever produced. It is peculiarly appropriate that his portrait
now adorns the courtroom at Bel Air, which was the theatre of many of his achievements.
It is a singular fact that a majority of the descendants of the signers of the Harford declaration still
live in their native county, many on the very farms worked for generations by their ancestors, and the late Daniel
Scott was a conspicuous example of this, he having resided on the same land which had been in his family for more
than two centuries. This continued possession and occupancy of the land speaks volumes for the healthfulness
and beauty of Harford and attests the love of the descendants for the land of their illustrious ancestors.
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore,
Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
STUMP, JOHN , OF STAFFORD.
John Stump and Mary, his wife, were Prussians of wealth
and culture, who came to Maryland about the year 17900. The name of his European ancestors is said to have
been spelled Stumpf. John Stump was a cousin of Baron Friederich von der Trenck, the younger of the two famous
kinsman of that name, who figured conspicuously during the reign of Frederick the Great. John Stump purchased
a large tract of land near the present town of Perryville, in Cecil county, where he died in 1747, having divided
his property by will between his only surviving children, John and Henry. In that year, or in the next, Henry
Stump removed to the valley of Deer Creek, in Harford county, then part of Baltimore county, where he had purchased
a farm. He married Rachel Perkins, by whom he had several children, and many of his descendants are living
in Harford and Cecil counties. He was the ancestor of the Honorable John H. Price, once judge of the judicial
circuit composed of Baltimore, Cecil and Harford counties; of the Hon. Henry Stump, formerly judge of
the Criminal Court of Baltimore city, and of the latter’s nephew, the Hon. Frederick Stump, recently a judge of
the Second Judicial Circuit. John Stump married Hannah, daughter of William Husbands, a descendant on the
female side of Augustine Herman, (whence the name of Herman in the Stump family), of Bohemia Manor. In 1796
he, too, removed to Harford, having sold his own property, and that inherited by his wife, consisting of several
farms. He died in 1797, leaving three children – Hannah, who married her cousin, John Stump, son of Henry,
above mentioned; Herman, who married Elizabeth Dallam, and John. Elizabeth Dallam subsequently married Abraham
Jarrett, and was the mother of Capt. A. Lirngan Jarrett, for many years clerk of the Circuit Court for Harford
county. John was born April 19, 1753, and married Oct. 3, 1779, Cassandra, daughter of Henry Wilson, a Quaker
of much influence, who was noted for his patriotic zeal during the Revolution. Henry, the brother of Cassandra,
was a member of the Committee of Observation of his native county, and was conspicuous in collecting and forwarding
supplies for the relief of the people of Boston during its blockade by the British squadron. He and John
Archer, M. B., several of whose descendants subsequently inter-married with the Stump family, were chosen in November,
1776, by popular vote, “electors of a Senate of Harford county,” and were also members of the Provincial Convention.
John Stump, after acquiring by his industry and enterprise, an estate which was at that time probably the largest
in the State, died at his residence, “Stafford,” near the mouth of Deer Creek, in 1816, leaving each of his eight
children wealthy. He was in business, an had mills at Stafford, Rock Run and Bush, in Harford county, and
at Alexandria, in Virginia. He was probably the leading merchant and manufacturer of his day in the State.
He signed in 1776 the Association of the Freemen of Maryland. John Stump’s partners in business were his
brother Herman Stump, John Wilson, Samuel Carter and John Thomas Ricketts. John Stump built several vessels
at Rock Run and Havre de Grace, and shipped flour and other things directly from the Susquehanna to England.
His son, John Wilson, besides being engaged in agricultural pursuits, was at the head of an extensive commercial
firm in Baltimore city, having as his partner Hon. James W. Williams, who married his sister and who, in 1841,
represented in Congress Harford and Cecil counties. Mr. John W. Stump, whilst returning on one of his vessels
from France, in 1814, when the British fleet was in Chesapeake bay, barely escaped capture, and reached the city
of Baltimore in time to participate in its defense as aide to Gen. Stricker. On Jan. 13, 1814, he married
Sarah, daughter of Col. James Biays, a large shipping merchant of Baltimore, who owned many vessels, and aided
materially in building up the commerce of the city. John W. Stump was the father of Hon. Herman Stump, President
of the Maryland Senate, member of Congress and Commissioner-General of Immigration. Colonel Biays commanded
the cavalry at the battle of North Point, and in the official reports of that battle was highly commended for his
efficiency. There now reside in Harford county many descendants of John Stump, of Stafford, among whom
are Stumps, Lees, Archers, Constables, Smithsons. Ann, daughter of John Stump, of Stafford, was the mother
of Hon. Henry W. Archer. (Source: History of Harford County,
Maryland ; Baltimore, Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
STREETT, COL. JOHN
The Streett family is one of the oldest in Harford county.
Three brothers – David, Thomas and John – came to America from London early in the eighteenth century. One,
John, went to Philadelphia; David settled on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and Thomas in Harford (then Baltimore)
county, Maryland.
Rev. Nicholas Streett, who was born in London in 1603, the year of the death of Queen Elizabeth, and who
came to America in 1637-8 and settled at Taunton, Mass., and afterwards became a distinguished theologian, is said
to have been of the same family as the Harford County Streets.
Thomas Streett, before the Revolution, took out a patent for seven hundred acres of land above the Rocks
of Deer Creek, called Streett’s Hunting Ground, part of which is yet in the possession of his descendants.
Thomas Streett was residing on this property in 1774, at the time of the foundation of the county.
Besides a large number of the name now in Harford many other prominent families here are descended from Thomas
Streett. Among them are Willialms, Fendal, Waters, Bell, Gladden, Baldwin, Glenn, Whiteford, Cairnes, Amos,
Den Bow, Bevard, St. Clair, Holmes and many others.
Col. John Streett was born in the year 1762 in what is now Marshall’s district of Harford county, where he
died in the year 1837. His wife’s name was Martha St. Clair. He was an extensive farmer, owning more
than three thousand acres. He was also a successful business man and was prominent in the politics of the
county, surviving twelve times consecutively in the Maryland Legislature as a representative from Harford.
At the time of the British attack upon Baltimore, in Sept., 1814, a call was made for troops from the surrounding
country. Colonel Streett marched with his cavalry command from Harford county to the defence of that city,
and served with the brigade of cavalry at North Point. In his command as officers were Capt. Clem Butler
and Capt. McAtee, and several of Colonel Streett’s sons also served under him.
The children of Col. John Streett were:
James, born Aug. 22, 1789.
Mary, who married Henry Amos.
John, born 1791.
William.
Shadrach.
Thomas, who married Catherine Merryman.
St. Clair, born 1798, who married Miss Jarrett
Dr. Abraham J., born in 1800; married Elizabeth Streett.
Charlotte, who married Silas Baldwin.
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore,
Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
WEBSTER FAMILY
ISAAC WEBSTER -- SAMUEL WEBSTER -- RICHARD WEBSTER
The Webster family is one of the oldest Harford, and has furnished of its members some of the most distinguished
men in the county, among these being the Isaac, Samuel and Richard above named, Captain John A. Webster, of the
war of 1812 fame, and the late Col. Edwin H. Webster, a distinguished lawyer, president of the Maryland Senate,
colonel of the Seventh Maryland Regiment, which he organized, member of Congress and twice Collector of the Port
of Baltimore. As the scope of this book does not reach past the war of 1812, it is with Isaac, Samuel and
Richard that this sketch is especially to deal. The Webster family is of English and Scotch origin, the first
to cross the ocean being John, who settled in Virginia, and was known as John of Roanoke; Isaac, who was the progenitor
of the present Webster family here; Samuel and Michael. There are patents now in the possession of the family
for land in this country, bearing date in the seventeenth century. The original representatives of the Websters
in this county were of diversified religious belief, some being Quakers and others Episcopalians, many of
the present generation being Presbyterians and Methodists. The family coat of arms is a swan feeding its
young. A very old seal showing this crest is now in possession of the family.
John Webster was born in 1670, and lived to be eight-five years of age. His will, dated in 1751, is
recorded in the old Will Records of Baltimore County. A son John had died before the testator, and in the
latter’s will he provides for his children as follows: Sarah, Michael, Samuel, Aliceanna and the Isaac above
named.
Samuel, the son of John, was born in 1710, and married Elizabeth Dallam. He was a prominent man in
his day and held the important and lucrative office of tobacco inspector at Jopps, then one of the principal ports
of the State. Samuel’s son, Richard, was born Apr. 7, 1741, on the family homestead near cavalry, in Harford
County, and he died in the old stone family residence. He was twice married, his first wife being a daughter
of William Lester. Of this union there were three children: John, Samuel and Richard, the latter being the
father of Mr. James Webster, now living in the county. His second wife was Phoebe, daughter of George Smith,
of Chester County, Pennsylvania, whose children were: George, Elizabeth, William W., Sarah, Isaac, Wesley,
Henry and Phoebe. Henry was the father of Col. Edwin H. Webster and of Mr. William Webster, who now resides
on the home place.
Isaac, the son of John, was a leading man in the county before and at the time of the Revolution. He
was a member of the Bush River Company, and was a man of wealth and position. His daughter, Aliceanna, married
John Bond, of Baltimore Town, who was also a member of the Bush River Company. Aliceanna Bond, daughter of
John Bond and Aliceanna Webster, his wife, on May 30th, 1767, married Thomas Kell at Fell’s Point Baltimore.
They moved shortly afterward to Kellville, Harford County, which was their home for the remainder of their lives.
The issue of this marriage were:
Alice Kell, June 2nd, 1768
Elizabeth Kell, July 10th, 1769
Pamalia Kell, Aug. 5th, 1770
John Bond Kell, July 16th, 1771
Thomas Kell, September 22nd, 1772.
Isaac Kell, Aug. 17th, 1774
Wesley Kell & Aliceanna Kell } Twins, June, 1776.
William Kell, April 20th, 1777
Nathan Kell, Dec. 28th, 1778
Aliceanna Kell, Aug. 15th, 1780
Elizabeth Kell, Oct. 26th, 1781
Elizabeth Kell, May 26th, 1783
Anne Kell, Apr. 25th, 1785
Harriet Ann Kell, May 23rd, 1786.
The Thomas Kell, born Sep. 27th, 1772, was Judge, Clerk of the Court in Baltimore, and the only native of
Harford who has every Attorney General of the State of Maryland. The latter’s daughter, Elizabeth, on November
10th, 1835, married Augustus W. Bradford, Who was born in Bel Air, on January 9th 1806, and was Governor of Maryland
during the Civil War.
A portion of the house in which Governor Bradford was born is now standing and is part of the residence of
his son, Mr. Samuel Webster Bradford, on Main street, Bel Air.
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore,
Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
WHEELER, COL. IGNATIUS
A very prominent man in Harford county in Revolutionary
times was Col. Ignatius Wheeler, who lived on his estate called Deer Park, near the present Ady Postoffice, in
the Fifth election district.
He was first lieutenant of Company No. 16 of Harford militia, the other officers of which were William Webb,
captain; William Fisher, Jr., second lieutenant; John Webb, Jr., ensign.
Besides Deer Park, which is a large tract, Colonel Wheeler owned a fertile estate called Belle Farm, comprising
a large part of the present Pylesville section, one of the finest portions of the county, now as well as in early
days.
A large portion of Belle Farm is now owned by the Jenkins and McAtee families, who are direct descendants
of Colonel Wheeler, and the estate has thus remained in the Wheeler heirs.
The farm called Garden Spot, belonging to the late Joshua Rutledge, near the Rocks of Deer Creek, belonged
to Colonel Wheeler, who was an ancestor of Mr. Rutledge.
In the Maryland Legislature for the sessions 1786 and 1787, Colonel Wheeler was one of the delegates from
Harford county.
He died on his estate of Deer Park in August, 1793, and his will, dated July 13, of that year, is recorded
in the office of the Register of Wills of Harford County in Liber A. J. No. R., folio 217.
His children were: Monica, who married Jacob Rutledge, whose descendants now living in Harford county
are Rutledges, Stephensons and Hollands. John W. Rutledge and Ignatius Rutledge were her sons.
Treacy (or Teresa), who married Capt. Henry McAtee, from whom are sprung the present McAtee, Richardson and
Raphel families in Harford county, and also Streetts.
Henriette, who remained single.
Mary Ann (Polly), who married Samuel Brown, who, after the death of Mary, married her sister Elizabeth.
From Elizabeth are descended the present Jenkins family in Harford and Baltimore counties, Elizabeth’s daughter
Ann Maria having married Ignatius Jenkins, of Dulaney’s Valley, Baltimore county.
Bennet was the progenitor of the present Wheeler family in Harford county.
Ignatius never married.
Frank Wheeler was the ancestor of the Wheeler family in Baltimore county, and of Adys and Burkes in Harford
and Baltimore counties. By Colonel Wheeler’s will his brother Joseph and John Lee Gibson, who had married
Colonel Wheeler’s sister, were left executors and trustees.
John Lee Gibson was the first clerk of the Circuit Court for Harford County (not counting Alex. Lawson).
Colonel Wheeler lies buried at St. Ignatius Church, Hickory.*
(*Mr. P. H. Rutledge, a descendant of Col. Wheeler, assisted in the preparation of the above.)
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore,
Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
WHITE, COL. THOMAS
Born in London in 1704, of good parentage, Thomas White lost his father at the age of four years. He attended
a grammar school at St. Albans, near London, but in 1720, at the age of sixteen, he sailed for Maryland.
It is said that he was of the retinue of Charles Calvert, who came out in that year to become governor of the province.
He was apprenticed to a Mr. Stokes to be taught for the profession of law, and the usual fee of one hundred
guineas was paid for him. Young White accordingly became a lawyer, but was soon appointed deputy surveyor
general for Baltimore county, then comprising also Harford. This was an office of great importance in those
times, a position Washington held in his early days in Virginia.
Colonel White became the authority on titles in his county and his certificate was regarded as law.
He married Sophia, daughter of Capt. John Hall, of Cranberry. The latter was born in 1658 and in the year
1694 purchased certain tracts of land from Michael Judd, Edward Boothby and others, making a tract of 1,539 acres,
which he that year had laid
out and surveyed and which he called "Cranberry," being mainly on Bush River.
Capt. John Hall's wife was Martha Gouldsmith, nee Beadle, whom he married July 18, 1693, and who died in
1720. They had seven children. Captain Hall died in August, 1737, and by his will he devised to his
children large tracts of land, among which were six hundred acres on Deer Creek; Taylor's Good Hope, four hundred
acres; Timber Nest, four hundred and seventy acres; Cranberry, lying west of mill run, and Jericho, one thousand
acres; Harman's Swantown, two hundred acres; The Enlargement of Old Quarter, seven hundred acres; New Quarter,
six hundred acres.
To his daughter Sophia, wife of Col. Thomas White, he devised a tract of land called Sophia's Dairy, which
is what is now known as the Dairy Farm; part of Hall's Plains and Simmon's Neglect. Colonel White, therefore,
through his wife, was the proprietor of large tracts of land, which he added to by the purchase and patent of others,
among which were the following tracts: Ah Ah Indeed, Ah Ah the Cow Pasture, Edinburgh, Abbott's Forest, Constantinople,
Antrim, Kilkenny, Londonderry, Eaton's Addition, Eaton's Second Addition, Gay's Favor, Hathaway's Hazard, Chance,
Rumney Royal, Hammond's Hope, Paradise, Leigh of Leighton, Royal Exchange, Simmond's Neglect, Neighbor's Affinity,
Attaway's Trust, Constant Friendship, Harrison's Resolution, etc., etc. These tracts were all large, Ah Ah
Indeed, for instance, contained eight hundred and twenty-five acres. In 1777 colonel White's taxable real
estate in Harford county alone, comprised seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-two and one-half acres.
The tracts called Ah Ah, just west of Abingdon, have a ghost story connected with them, and children and the colored
population to this day have a dread of Ha Ha branch, which crosses the Philadelphia road between Abingdon
and Van Bibber. This neighborhood is said to be the haunt of a spectre which at times gives utterances to
a blood-curdling "ha ha." The fear of this ghost is as great in this generation as it was two hundred
years ago.
By order of the justices of Baltimore county, in 1728, Colonel White made a survey and plat of Bynum's run
from its mouth to its spring head, in order to find the direct course, and from thence to run and blaze that direct
course.
Patents to Colonel White:
1734, Sokmon's Song, fifty acres, on east side of Bush river.
1736, St. Martin's Ludgate, two hundred and eighty acres. His London birthplace is here evidenced as
two of the most prominent points in London are Ludgate Hill and the Church of St. Martin's, in the Fields.
1738, The Royal Exchange, four hundred and eighty acres, on Swan creek.
1746, Montreal, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five acres.
1747, Ah Ha at a Venture, or Hathaway's Hazard, one hundred and eighty-three acres.
Colonel White and Sophia, his wife, had three children. Sophia, born May 8, 1731, being the only of
the three who married and left descendants. She married her cousin, Aquila Hall, she and her husband each
being grandchildren of Capt. John Hall, of Cranberry. Colonel White's residence was on the Dairy Farm, between
the present large brick house and the river, and the remains of this house can yet be found. Aquila Hall
built the present Dairy Farm house in 1768. This is one of the largest in the county, even now, and while
without ornamentation, is a handsome and imposing structure with a very large hall.
Colonel White was a vestryman of Spesutia Church.** He has a large number of descendants now living
in Harford, many of them occupying land acquired by him.
In 1745 he removed to Philadelphia, and in May 1747, married the second time, the name of this wife being
Esther Newman. William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania and the first bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in America, was the son of the second marriage. There was a daughter also of this marriage There was a daughter
also of this marriage, Mary, who became the wife of Robert Morris, of Philadelphia, the great financier, signer
of the Declaration of Independence and United States Senator from Pennsylvania.
Colonel White was a vestryman of Spesutia Church. _ained his interests in Harford and died at the Dairy,
Sept. 29, 1779, where he was buried. His remains, together with those of Sophia, his wife, were removed in
1877 to Spesutia Church, where they were removed in 1877 to Spesutia Church, where they were reinterred in the
presence of about sixty of Colonel White's descendants.*
(*Meeting of descendants of Col. Thomas White)
(**There is a cemetery near the Church)
(Source: History of Harford County, Maryland ; Baltimore,
Md. :: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901 - submitted by Sharon Wick)
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