1879 History Genealogy of Montgomery County Maryland MD

Description: This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Montgomery County and its people. This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1879. The History of Montgomery County, Maryland From its Earliest Settlement in 1650 to 1879: The Early Land Grants.—By whom patented.—Their order of Settlement and Present Owners.—Local and General Events.—Leading Incidents.—Principal Towns, Villages, &c.—Its Soil, Products, and Industries. Also, SKETCHES OF THE PROMINENT MEN OF THE COUNTY. DIRECTORY Of Post Offices, Merchants, Manufacturers, Professors, Farmers, Tobacco Planters, Mechanics, Mills, Colleges, Schools, and Churches. WITH AN APPENDIX, Containing a Description of the Prominent Business Houses of Washington and Georgetown. COMPILED AND ARRANGED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES, By T. H. S. Boyd, 1879 168 pages on 1 CD An essential resource for Genealogists Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect. This book on CD is SEARCHABLE * CONTENTS Chapter I The Aborigines or Indians Their customs and habits.— Treatment of strangers.—Treatment of enemies.—Their vices.— Marriages.— Indian huts or wigwams.— Dress.—Religious ceremonies, etc. Chapter II. The Indians—Continued Their amusements.—War Dances.—Hunting and Fishing their chief employment,— Dances.—The Calumet,—Diseases.— The medicine men or doctors.—Death and burials. —Lord's Prayer in their native language, etc. Chapter III. The Founder of Maryland.—Granting of the Charter.—Powers conferred by the Charter.—Sailing of the Colonists.—Arrival in the Chesapeake Bay.—Landing on Blackiston Island. — Settlement at St, Mary's.—Friendly relations secured with the Indians.— Extending the settlements to St. George's and Montgomery.— Peace and Prosperity.— Missionaries.— A period of Thirty Years. Chapter IV. Climate and Productions.—Tobacco and Corn, staple productions.— Oysters, Came and Fish.—Indentured Whites. Slaves introduced from Virginia,—Tobacco the medium of barter and exchange.—Tobacco shipments.—Silver coins. — Fruit and Cider.—Mails.—Quakers or Friends.—Indians. Toleration. Chapter V. Land Grants - Joseph's Park.— Girl's Portion.—Leeke Forest,—Hermitage. Saint Winexburg.—Carroll's Forest—Dan.—Brightwell's Hunting Quarter.—Clean Drinking.—Bear Neck.—Maiden's Fancy.—Bear Bacon.—Friendship.— Charles and Thomas. Friendship.—Clagett's Purchase.— Huntington.— Contention.— Bradford's best,—Addition to Bradford's Best. Bradford's Best.— Dung Hill.—Thompson's Hop Yard. Cool Spring Level.—Allison's Park.—Archibald's Lot. Younger Brother —Dispute.—Two Brothers.—The New Exchange.—Addition to Dan.—Joseph and James. Chapter VI. Land Grants—Continued Easy Purchase.—Friendship Enlarged.— Drumaldry.—Lay Hill.—Snowden's Manor.—Snowden's Manor Enlarged. — Charles and Benjamin. —George the Third.—Beall's Manor.— Beall Christie.—Bear Garden Enlarged.—Deer Park. Snowden Mill.—Charley Forest.—Addition to Charley Forrest.—Hygham.—Gold's Branch.—Gitting's Hah ! Hah ! ! Bordley's Choice.—Brooke Grove.—Addition to Brooke Grove.—John and Sarah.—Benjamin's Lot.—New Year's Gift.—Autra —Easy Come By.— Mill Land.—Boyd's Delay.— Magruder's Hazard.—Paradise.—Bernard's Desire. Wickham and Pottinger's Discovery.—Partnership.—The Brothers' Industry.—Deer Park. —Fellowship.—Constant Friendship. Chapter VII. Land Grants— Continued Wickham's Good Will.—The Joseph.—Middle Plantation. Magruder and Beall's Honesty.—Clewerwald Enlarged. Goose Pond.—Bear Den.—Prevention.—Saint Mary's. Valentine's Garden Enlarged.—Re-survey on Valentine's Garden Enlarged.— Haymond's Addition.—Concord.— Hanover.— Flint's Grove.—Happy Choice.—Hopewell.—Jeremiah's Park.—Partnership.—The Re-survey on Part of Forest.—Banks' Venture.—Abraham's Lot.—Killmain. John's Delight.—Conclusion.—Turkey Thicket.—Benja min's Square.—Spring Garden.—Abel's Levels.—Moored Delight.—Pork Plenty, if no Thieves.—Chestnut Ridge. Ralfo.—Grandmother's Good Will.—Cow Pasture.—Peach Tree Hill.—Errors Corrected.—Very Good.—Bite the Biter.— Silent Valley.—Trouble Enough Indeed. Chapter VIII. Frederick City.—Georgetown, D. C.—Tobacco.— Rolling Roads.—French War.—Defeat of General Braddock.—Massacre of the Settlers.—The Revolution.—Meeting at old Hungerford Tavern.—Resolutions.—Formation of Montgomery County.—Named after General Richard Montgomery. Rockville, the County Seat.—Districts of the County. Orphans' Court,—Registers of Wills.—Members of the State Convention. Chapter IX. A Period of One Hundred and Forty Years.—The First Continental Congress.—Maryland Convention.—Enrollment and Organization of Companies.—The First Blood shed in the Revolutionary War, 19th April, 1775.—Captain Cresap's Company.—Their bravery in battle.—Powder Mills.—Cannon Manufactories.—Contingent called from Montgomery County.—-The deeds of prowess in Virginia and the Caro- Carolinas.—Revolutionary Officers from the County.—The War of 1812.—Distinguished Officers in the War of the Rebellion. Chapter X. First Revolutionary Soldier.—Montgomery's Revolutionary Roll.—Pension Acts.—Names of Pensioners.—Meteoric Showers, as witnessed at the home of Charles Saffell, the Oldest Pensioner on the List.—Scenes in Gaithersburg and Rockville. Chapter XI. First Member of Congress from this County.—Whiskey Insurrection in Pennsylvania.—Names of Montgomerians who served in the Federal Congress.—Hon. Montgomery Blair as Cabinet Minister.—Members of Reform State Conventions, 1850-51, '64, '07.—First County Surveyor.—First Schools.— An Act for Purchasing School Property.—Academies, Colleges, &c, and their Students. Chapter XII. First Public Roads.—Rolling Tobacco to Market.—Union Turnpike.—Washington, Colesville and Ashton.—Columbia.—The Old Baltimore.—River Road.—Old Annapolis. Conduit.—Old Potomac Company.—Subscriptions to said Company.—Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.—Coal Elevators in Georgetown.—First Railroad in the Country.—Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Metropolitan Branch. Chapter XIII. Prominent Men Col. John Berry.—Elisha Riggs.—Samuel Riggs.—Mrs. Ann Poultney.—Philip E. Thomas.—Rev. Reuben T. Boyd. His Ordination as Minister of the Gospel.—His Certificate to perform marriage, signed by General Wm Henry Harrison.— John C. Clark.—George R. Gaither.—Israel H. B., and A. and R. R. Griffith.—Thomas L. Reese.—William Darne. Rev. Thomas McCormick.—Thomas Moore.—Caleb Bently.—Isaac Riggs.—Roger Brooke.—Hon. Francis P. Blair. Robert Pottinger.—Dr. William Bowie Magruder. –Major George Peter. -Drs. Duvall.—Tobacco Inspectors.- Robert Bellman.—Thomas W. Vinson.—Triadelphia Cotton Factory. Chapter XIV. Prominent Men—Continued Hon. Geo. W. Hilton.—William Darne, of .Mountain View.—Prof. Benjamin Hallowed.—Hon. Allen Bowie Davis.— Edward Stabler.—W. T. R. Saffell.—Francis Cassott Clopper. William Wilson.— Leonidas Wilson.—Hon. Thomas Lansdale.—Dr. Richard Waters.—John S. Belt,—Hon. Richard Waters, and others. Chapter XV. Boundaries of the County.—Building Stone.—Rooting Slate. Gold.—Chrome.—Quantity of Land and its Value.—Number of Horses and other Cattle.—Farm Productions for 1878. —Intellectual, Social and Agricultural Institutions.—Population from 1790 to 1870.—Society of Friends.—Improvements at the close of the Internecine War.—Influence of the Metropolitan Railroad. Present Officers of the County Chapter XVI. Apiculture.—Peach Culture , Keeping and Propagation of Bees.—Process of removing Honey, without destroying Bees.—Principal Bee Raisers in the County. Peach Trees.—Propagation of Trees.—List of desirable varieties. Chapter XVII. The Washington Grove Camp Ground Incorporators.— Objects.— Location.—Present and Past Officers.— Cottages.—Tents.—Owners. DIRECTORY OF TOWNS AND VILLAGES, INCLUDING THE POST OFFICE ADDRESS OF MERCHANTS, FARMERS, Barnesville Beallsville Bethesda Brighton Brookeville Burtonsville Cabin John Cedar Grove Clarksburg Colesville Damascus Darnestown Dawsonville Dickerson Edwards' Ferry Fairland Four Corners Gaithersburg Germantown Goshen Great Falls Hyattstown Hunting Hill Knowles' Laytonsville Martinsburg Middlebrook Monocacy Montrose Norbeck Offutt's + Roads Olney Poolesville Redland Rockville Sandy Springs Sellman's Seneca Sligo Spencerville Sunshine Triadelphia Wheaton White's Ferry DIRECTORY OF PROMINENT MERCANTILE FIRMS. GEORGETOWN, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C. 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