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From: Susan McIntyre <>
Subject: Re: [MDWASHIN] German Settlers to Maryland
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:22:03 -0500
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Hi Lauren,

I was very interested in the information contained in your posting. I
tried searching a bit online but could not find those 25 signatures
listed. I emailed the Maryland State Archives to see if they could
offer additional details on what they show in "The Calvert Papers"
reference to the Daniel Dulaney praise by the 25 Frederick Co. area
residents. I will let you know what (if anything) I am able to learn.
Meanwhile if you are interested in searching for early settlers of
Frederick Co. MD (in general and in relation to land purchased from
Dulaney) you might want to read through "New Facts and Old Families" by
Millard Milburn Rice and "Inhabitants of Frederick Co. MD Vol. 2
1749-1800" by Stefanie R. Shaffer.

Is there a specific name you are searching for?
Susan McIntyre



Lauren Brantner wrote:

> This is my third post on this topic - apparently the first two went to
> lala land in the big crash we had.
>
> I managed to get hold of an old treatise from John Hopkins University
> Studies
> The Land System In Maryland, 1720-1765
> by Clarence P. Gould, Ph.D. (Michael Fisher Professor of History in
> the University of Wooster)
> Baltimore, John Hopkins Press 1913
>
> There are some emigration patterns in here that might be helpful to
> people as they research their early families.
> "In light of the foregoing figures and expressions of opinion it can
> scarcely be doubted that the quit-rent constituted a serious burden on
> the land of colonial Maryland and materially retarded the progess of
> the province." Because this constituted a burden to land ownership
> people bypassed Maryland. "In the advance of the Germans into the
> great Appalachian valleys, Maryland was at first avoided. Many
> families moved from Pennsylvania into Virginia apparently without
> thought of settling on the rich lands along the Monacacy through which
> they journeyed."
>
> I tend to forget how wild and untamed the country was for the people
> moving into new areas. Apparently one of the ways Daniel Dulaney
> helped the German settlers at Frederick was by providing them with
> "pistoles" to protect themselves. Has anyone ever seen the list of 25
> German settlers at Frederick mentioned below? And has anyone seen any
> publications from the Society for the History of Germans to Maryland
> listed below with reference to Hagerstown and Jonathan Hager?
>
> p. 87
> "Daniel Dulany was one of the first as well as one of the largest and
> most successful dealers in Frederick County. When he first took up
> large tracts in this region, it was generally thought he was on the
> road to financial ruin, but on his land was formed one of the earliest
> settlements. This start, combined with the favorable location, soon
> created on his property the metropolis of the Monocacy Valley. In 1745
> Dulany himself laid out a town, which he called Frederick; he also
> gave land for churches, and seems to have assumed a sort of
> guardianship over the community." This passage is footnoted with "A
> letter signed by twenty-five German settlers read in part; "One of the
> Principal Gentlemen of this Country (Mr. Dulany) who lives at
> Annapolis, the Capital of this Province, was so kind as to Assist us
> wth 306 Pistoles & to free us from ye Captain's Power, we are
> Perswaded that this Gentlemen will be Serviceable to Aid and Assist
> all Germans that will Settle in this Province." (Calvert Papers,
> M.S., No. 295 1/2)
> p. 88
> "Another place which developed in a manner very similar to Frederick
> was Hagerstown. Jonathan Hager, a German immigrant, settled in that
> region and took up land. Following the lead of Dulany, he built up
> his settlement, and after the close of the Indian Wars, laid out a
> town. Eddis writes: 'A German adventurer, whose name is Hager,
> purchased a considerable tract of land in this neighborhood, and with
> much discernment and foresight, determined to give encouragement to
> traders, and to erect proper habitations for the stowage of goods, for
> the supply of the adjacent country. His plan succeeded: he has lived
> to behold a multitude of inhabitants on land which he remembered
> unoccupied; and he has seen erected in places appropriated by him for
> that purpose, more than a hundred comfortable edifices, to which the
> name of Hager's Town is given, in honour of the intelligent founder.'"
> The author says, see also Sollers, "Jonathan Hager," in Society for
> the History of Germans in Maryland, second annual report.
>
> page 85
> "At an early period Augustine Hermann took up a large tract known as
> Bohemia Manor in Cecil County and rented much of it out to Germans
> whom he brought over from the Delaware." This is another place we
> might look for early German settlers besides Pennsylvania and Virginia.
> Lauren Brantner
>
>

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