Annapolis in 1694
In 1694, the capital of Maryland
was removed from St. Mary's to Annapolis. The memorial volume
celebrating the two hundredth anniversary in 1894 has information about the
colonial Annapolis.
After forty-five years of
growth, Annapolis, in 1694, had under forty houses in it, and, it my be
estimated, not over one hundred and fifty inhabitants. Within its
precincts and in its vicinity were names that have linked themselves
with every stage of progress of the "Old Line State."
From the ancient rent-rolls are taken the names of the men who first
settled in Annapolis and its vicinity, and whose prosperity lived in
Annapolis when it became the Capital of the State, with here and there
some sturdy son of the virgin settlement who remained to see the steady
progress and new honors of "the Ancient City." The dates
show the years when the surveys were made and the land taken up for
patent.
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Richard Bennett, 1650
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Thomas Gott, 1658
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William Galloway, 1659
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John Colier, 1659
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Samuel Ruthers, 1661
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In Middle Neck Hundred,
between Severn and South Rivers:
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Zepheniah Smith, 1650
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Matthew Howard 1650
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Wm. Crouch, 1650
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John Howard, 1650
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| Richard Warfield, 1650 |
| Alex. Warfield, 1650 |
| Thomas Todd, 1651 |
| James Homes, 1651 |
| Ann Owen, 1684 |
| Nich. Wyat, 165` |
| Sam. Dorsey |
| Richard Acton, 1651 |
| Peter Porter, 1651 |
| John Baldwin, 1661 |
| Christopher Oatly, 1651 |
| Richard Beard, 1650 |
| Thomas Howell, 1651 |
| William Homes, 1652 |
| James Warner, 1651 |
| Henry Pickney, 1651 |
| Thos. Gates, 1658 |
| John Howard, 1658 |
| William Galloway, 1659 |
| Tobias Butler, 1659 |
| Neal Clark, 1659 |
| Geo. Laugher, 1650 |
| Saml. Whiters, 1661 |
| Lawrence Richardson, 1661 |
| Ann Correll, 1661 |
| Edward Hope, 1661 |
| Col. Henry Ridgely, 1661 |
| Charles Ridgely, 1661 |
| Jacob Benington, 1661 |
| William Frizzell, 1663 |
| Neal Clark, 1663 |
| Edward Skidmore, 1662 |
| Nicholas Wyat, 1662 |
| Cornelius Howard, 1662 |
| Saml Howard, 1662 |
| John Howard, 1662 |
| Charles Stephens, 1662 |
| Walter Smith, 1662 |
| John Edwards, 1662 |
| Patrick Dunkan, 1662 |
| John Howard, 1663 |
| Charles Stephens, 1663 |
| Ralph Salmon, 1663 |
| John James, 1663 |
| Henry Sewell, 1663 |
| Thomas Underwood, 1663 |
| Edward Dorsey, 1663 |
| John Dorsey, 1663 |
| Joshua Dorsey, 1663 |
| Cornelius Howard, 1663 |
| John Edwards, 1663 |
| Richard Moss, 1663 |
| Thomas Hammond, 1664 |
| William Gumes, 1664 |
| William Read, 1665 |
| John C. Muccubin, 1665 |
| Robert Clark, 1664 |
| Thomas Roper, 1664 |
| John Barton, 1665 |
Thomas Bell, 1665
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| In Broad and Town Neck Hundred, between
Severn and Mogothy Rivers: |
| Robert Birle, 1650 |
| Abram Holman, 1650 |
| Richard Ewen, 1652 |
| Thomas Homwood, 1652 |
| Lewis Jones, 1652 |
| Joshua Meriken, 1652 |
| Richard Young, 1652 |
| John Cowell, 1651 |
| William Durand, 1651 |
| Ralph Hawkins, 1659 |
| Philip Howard, 1659 |
| Edward Lloyd, 1659 |
| James Rigby, 1659 |
| William Fuller, 1659 |
| Elizabeth Strong, 1659 |
| Matthew Clark, 1659 |
| Henry Catlins, 1659 |
| Thomas Brown, 1659 |
| Henry Woolchurch, 1662 |
| William Pyther, 1659 |
| Richard Devaier, 1662 |
| Matthew Howard, 1663 |
| Alice Durand, 1662 |
| Robert Taylor, 1662 |
| Abram Dawson, 1662 |
| William Lloyd, 1662 |
| Thomas Turner, 1662 |
| Robrt Lusby, 1662 |
| Edward Skidmore, 1663 |
| Robert Tyler, 1663 |
| Thomas C. Marsh, 1663 |
| John Askew, 1663 |
| Emmanuell Drew, 1663 |
| Elizabeth Darrell, 1663 |
| Christian Merriken, 1665 |
| Thomas Thurston, 1664 |
| Thomas Cole, 1664 |
| William Hill, 1665 |
| James Orwick, 1665 |
| Richard Mossen, 1665 |
| Richard Devour, 1662 |
| John Brown, 1665 |
| John Clark, 1665 |
| Herman Solling, 1665 |
| Elizabeth Hills, 1666 |
| George Yate, 1666 |
| Robert Pettybon, 1666 |
| Edward Blay, 1666 |
| John Rockhold, 1666 |
| Paul Dorrell, 1667 |
| Morrice Baker, 1667 |
| James Connaway, 1668 |
| Geo. Norman, 1669 |
| John Burton, 1667 |
| William Daws, between 1667 and 1670 |
| William Read, 1665 |
| Henry Pierpont, 1665 |
| Phillip Thomas, 1664 |
| Walter Phelps, 1665 |
| Nicholas Green, 1665 |
| Francis Reasly, 1666 |
| Elizabeth Sisson, 1666 |
| William Harris, 1667 |
| Jeane Sisson, 1667 |
| Edward Dorsey, 1668 |
| Thomas Phelps, 1668 |
| William Hopkins, 1669 |
| Guy Meek, 1669 |
| Richard Warfield, 1669 |
| Edward Gardner, 1669 |
Annapolis in 1894
In 1845, Annapolis had,
after nearly two hundred years of growth, increased to 3,000
inhabitants. The Naval Academy gave it a slight impetus when it
was established there at the last named date, and Annapolis in 1890 was
reported as having over 7,000 souls. This does not include the
naval Academy and residents adjacent to the town, which would make the
number nearly 9,000.
Dignified with the seat of
government in 1694, Annapolis had put on its honors with the stir of a new
vitality. Its name was changed to its present one from Ann Arundel Town,
ship yards were laid out, a parish church (the present St. Anne's parish and
now the third church), a schoolhouse (King William's School, now St. John's
College), and a public ferry over the Severn, which was maintained until 1887,
when it was superseded by a bridge, followed each other rapid order.
The City of Annapolis had not made
progress in wealth nor in population, but its development, on better lines,
has been the pride of its people. With the arrival of the capital and a
new element, came politicians, lawyers, legislators, judges and
scholars. Here grace and beauty gathered, and in this prototype of an
English capital, wealth, leisure, beauty and refinement created a life of
social gayety and voluptuous enjoyment that made the city famous throughout
all the colonies for its fastidious pleasures, whilst the cluture and elegance
of its people gained for it the title of "The Athens of America.:
Nor was the title undeserved. From its civilization were evolved Chares
Carroll of Carrollton, Charles Wilson Peale, William Pickney, Daniel Dulaney,
Reverdy Johnson and John D. Godman, in the last century, and in the present,
Stewart Holland, the hero of the Artic; James Booth Lockwood, of the Greeley
expedition; Stuart Robson, representative of the histrionic art; Dennis W.
Mullan, the hero of Samoa--all of whom were born in Annapolis--and may others
in both eras whose names belong to the history of the whole country.
The spirit, character and
patriotism of the people of Annapolis are written in deeds like these:
The battle of the Severn, 1656; establishment of King William's School, 1696;
founding of the Gazette, 1727; the merciful reception of the banished
Acadians, 1755; erection of the first theater in America, in 1760; mobbing of
Hood, the stamp act tax gatherer in 1765; the burning of the Peggy Stewart and
her tea in 1774; furnishing two incidents in the bill of indictment of George
III, in the Declaration of Independence; mobbing the Tories of 1812, who dared
rejoice by a sermon and procession over the fall of Napoleon and the freeing
of English legions to fight America, and in gaining the love of Washington
next to his Mount Vernon home.
The people of the "Ancient
City" today, inheritors of the same blood, are legatees of the same
spirit that characterized their forefathers, and are noted for their
intelligent grasp of vital issues and their fearless vindication of their
free-born rights.
Source: Memorial
Volume: Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Removal of
the Capital of Maryland from St. Mary's to Annapolis, March 5, 1894.
Edited by Elihu S. Riley, Under the Authority of the House of Delegates of
Maryland of 1894 Anapolis: King Bros. State Printers 1894.
pp.157 - 167.
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