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From: "Billie R. Lewis" <>
Subject: Re: [MDGEN] Near Joppa, MD
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:53:18 -0500


To my understanding, Joppa is in Harford Co and northern end of
Baltimore Co. I have been only to Annapolis so this summer I go to
Joppa and the Gunpowder State Park which was at one time part of my
ancestor's land. Billie
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From: M Keith Ellingsworth <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, March 01, 2001 9:49 AM
Subject: [MDGEN] Near Joppa, MD


>for David GOODMAN, Billie LEWIS, Jackie REED, and Christine (Ms.
Snapdragon), especially,
>Please let me pick the brains of you experts on the area near Joppa,
Md.
>
>The first ELLINGSWORTH to arrive in America was Richard, and he
arrived in the Province
>of Maryland in 1654. He is my 8g grandfather. Now, quoting from two
sources listed at the end:
>
>"The area surrounding the Gunpowder Falls became a choice site for
some of the county's
>earliest land grants. In 1661 colonial officials surveyed a 250-acre
tract, "Taylor's Mount,"
>in the neck between Gunpowder Falls and Bird River for John TAYLOR.
Six years later,
>John DIXON had a 300-acre parcel entitled "Dixon's Chance" surveyed
to the south of the
>TAYLOR property. John BIRD, another early adventurer, settled near
the river bearing his name
>in the 1680s, and Colonel Thomas RICHARDSON had an 800-acre tract,
bounded by the
>Gunpowder Falls and Philadelphia Road, entitled "Richardson's Outlet"
surveyed in 1686.
>These are but a few of the many land grants in the lower Gunpowder
Falls region,
>but their early date of exploration gives evidence to the importance
of the region
>as one of the cradles of county settlement."
>
>3/1/1668/9: Richard ELLINSWORTH purchased from John DIXON 300 acres
of land
>at the head of the Gunpowder River, Baltimore Co., Md. Richard died
in 1700,
>leaving 214 acres to his "orphants".
>
>The orphans, at least a son, also Richard, moved to the Eastern
Shore, and his son,
>also Richard, sold the property in 1719.
>
>My questions:
>Can you estimate the location of the ELLINGSWORTH property, say
>with respect to Joppa or Joppatowne, etc.?
>Harford County was established in 1773 and, according to David
GOODMAN,
>Joppa was born in about 1707-1724, So, Joppa was originally in
>Baltimore County ? And was when Richard bought his property ?
>
>Sources:
>[1] A History of Baltimore County, Neal A Brooks and Eric G Rockel,
Published by Friends
>of the Towson Library, Baltimore, p. 5
>
>[2] Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, Robert W Barnes,
Genealogical Publishing Co.,
>Baltimore, refers to liber 95, folio 211, Maryland Archives
>
>I would be most interested in any information regarding the above.
>
>Cheers,
>Keith
>Anne Arundel Co., Md.
>
>
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