| CHAPTER I. |
FIRST VIEW..... |
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- Smith Comes to the Susquehanna from Virginia -
Maps the Shore and gives an account of the Indians -
Giant Indian seen near Stafford - Pool's Island -
Smith's Falls - Climate - Willoughby or Bush River -
Clayborne - Palmer's Island - Col. Nathaniel Utie -
Treaty with the Indians - Harford a District of
Baltimore County. |
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| CHAPTER II. |
EARLY SETTLEMENTS..... |
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- Thomas Thurston - Old houses - Some tracts of Land
of Jacob Giles, Col. White, Aquila Paca, Daniel Scott,
James Preston, John Stump, David Bisset, Samuel Gover,
John Hall, Wm. Bradford, Wm. McComas, John McComas. |
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| CHAPTER III. |
OLD COURT HOUSES..... |
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- Maryland Colony and England - Remote from events
of Mother Country - County Seat on Bush River - Some Old
Minutes of Court - Wm. Osborne - County Seat Removed to
Gunpowder - To Joppa - Growth and Decline of Joppa -
Baltimore on the Patapsco. |
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| CHAPTER IV. |
CUSTOMS AND MANNERS PRIOR TO THE REVOLUTION. |
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- Slavery - Primitive Conditions - The Lawyer -
Doctor - Schoolmaster - Life of a Physician before the
Revolution - Domestic Customs. |
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| CHAPTER V. |
ORGANIZATION OF HARFORD COUNTY ..... |
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- Inconvenience on account of Removal of County Seat
to Baltimore - Petition for New County - Henry Harford -
Act for Formation of new County. |
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| CHAPTER VI. |
ORGANIZATION OF COUNTY, continued ..... |
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First Records - Swearing in Lord Justices -
Appointment of Clerk, Sheriff and State's Attorney -
Division of County into Hundreds, and Appointments of
Constables. - First Grand Jury - First Petit Jury -
County Seat at Harford Town or Bush. |
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| CHAPTER VII. |
BELL AIR CHOSEN COUNTY SEAT ..... |
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- Other Places Voted for - Another Election
called - Scott's Old Field or Bel Air wins again -
Aquila Scott of James Conveys land in Bell Air to County
- Court House at Bel Air - Orders for Opening Roads &c.
- Harford the Chief Section of Baltimore County - First
two County Seats in Harford. |
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| CHAPTER VIII. |
SELECTIONS FROM OLD RECORDS ..... |
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- Tavern Licenses - Grand and Petit Juries - Luther
Martin admitted to Practice at Harford Bar - Tavern
Rates - Road Supervisors - Court House at Bel Air
Occupied - First Judges - Description of Building -
Burning of Old Court House and Construction of Present
Building. |
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| CHAPTER IX. |
OLD RECORDS, continued ..... |
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- Wm. Pinkney Locates at Bel Air - Basis of
Assessment - Tax rate - Members of the Bar in 1796 -
Juries - Robert Amos, Jr., Sheriff - Judges Election -
John Lee Gibson resigns as Clerk - Henry Dorsey of
Edward Appointed Clark. |
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| CHAPTER X. |
SIGN OF THE REVOLUTION ..... |
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- Importation Act - Stamp Act - The Peggy Stewart -
The American Association - Concord and Lexington -
Annapolis Convention of June, 1774 - Harford
Representatives - Convention at Bush - Resolutions -
Association of the Freemen of Maryland. |
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| CHAPTER XI. |
HARFORD IN THE REVOLUTION ..... |
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- People of New County give to Public Affairs. -
Favorable Location of County Seat at Bush - Great Men
Passing Along - Harford Declaration of Popular Rights. |
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CHAPTER XII. |
THE REVOLUTION - continued .....
PARTIALLY DONE - 4/22/2018 |
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- Enrollment of County Militia - The Flying Camp -
Alex. Lawson Smith's Harford Company at the Battle of
Fort Washington. |
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| CHAPTER XIII. |
LAFAYETTE'S EXPEDITION THROUGH HARFORD, 1781 ..... |
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- Officers of the Command - Lafayette Spends Night
at Hose of Col. James Rigby, near Darlington - Alex.
Hamilton - Proclamation Against Desertion - Aquila
Deaver - An Anecdote of the Expedition - Captains Greme
and Gimat. |
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| CHAPTER XIV. |
OLD CHURCHES ..... |
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- Spesutie - The Catholic Church. Bethel. |
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| CHAPTER XV. |
OLD CHURCHES - continued ..... |
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- Presbyterian Church at Churchville - Cokesbury
Methodist College and Church - Harford Baptist Church -
The Friends in Harford. |
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| CHAPTER XVI. |
BIOGRAPHICAL - |
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William Paca -
Dr. John Archer -
Col. Thomas White
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Benj. Bradford Norris. |
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| CHAPTER XVII. |
BIOGRAPHICAL - continued..... |
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Rev. John Coleman -
William Bradford -
John Stump,
of Stafford -
William Smithson -
Aquila Hall -
William
Morgan -
Col. Ignatius Wheeler -
Col. John Streett.
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Daniel Scott |
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| CHAPTER XVIII. |
THE WAR OF 1812 ..... |
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- National Conditions - Weak Federal Government -
Valuable Assistance form France - Fort McHenry - North
Point - Captain John A. Webster, Col. Wm. Smith and Col.
John Streett, all of Harford, Assist in the Defense of
Baltimore - Sketch of Capt. Webster - British Attack
Upon Havre de Grace - John O'Neill - Col. Smith's
Forty-second Regiment. |
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| CHAPTER XIX. |
HAVER de GRACE ..... |
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- Origin of the Name - Early Description -
Organization as a Town - First Town Commissioners -
Proceedings - Returns of Election - |
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| CHAPTER XX |
MISCELLANEOUS ..... |
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- Harford Pensioners from the Revolution
- Solicitors of Subscription to Association of Freemen
of Maryland.
- Early Iron Works
- Gov. Paca and Gov. Bradford
- Harford Militia Companies
- Harford Statistics, 1798
- Court Officers and Juries,,,, 1800
- Same, 1803-1806
- Nuncupative Will of Joseph Butler, Lieutenant in
Smallwood's Regiment, Killed at Battle of Long Island
- Marriage Certificate of John Worthington and Priscilla
Wilson, 1769
- My Lady's Manor
- Bel Air Academy |
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| APPENDIX. - |
- Minutes of Harford Revolutionary Committees
- Members of Hose of Delegates from Harford
- Sheriffs
- Members of Congress
- Registers of Wills
- Clerks of Circuit Court
- Constitutional Conventions. |
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