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Here lieth Interr'd the Body of Edward Lloyd Eldest son of . .. Edward Lloyd and S . . . his Wife, who died the 14th day of Feb . . . ua . . . Aged two years five Mon . .. And three days.
Here lieth interr'd the Body of Philemon Lloyd, second son of Coll Ed- ward Lloyd and Sarah his wife, who died March the 5th 1729, Aged 20 years 11 months and 5 days.
When Parents by their tender care and pains
Have rais'd their Offspring to maturity,
And then expect to reap the Joyfull Gains Of their Assistance and Posterity,
Grim death Appears and crops ye blooming flowers
And turns their Joyfull hopes to Sudden Grief.
Against this frail uncertain State of ours,
What thoughts can Shield or give us some relief ?
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Why, only this that God's entirely good And governs all things by his providence; Then all that happens must be understood His goodness and his wisdom did dispens. Tho' we frail Creatures cannot comprehend The great designs of his Eternal Will, Yet we may Certainly on this depend, That all is for our good and nothing ill.
Here Lyes Interr'd the Body of Mr. Iames Lloyd, who was born August the 14th 1715; Died September the 14th 1738.
If Youth and Beauty, Virtue and good sense Could guard against the fatal stroke of Death, He'd longer liv'd and not Departed hence Till far in Age, and Nature wanted Breath; But so it is, that human Life was giv'n To make a short Probation here on Earth, That we might qualifie ourselves for heaven And there Enjoy a new Eternal Birth; Then he who soonest near Perfection Draws And fitts himself for Vast Eternity, Is soonest eas'd from human Nature's Laws And in Eternall Bliss is Ever Free.
Here lieth intered the remains of Captain Richard Lloyd, who was born the 13th of August 1750, and departed this life Septr. 22d, 1787.
Here lie interred The remains of Mrs Ann Lloyd, wife of the Honble Col: Edward Lloyd, who Departed this life the 1st of May 1769, Aged 48 years.
Here lie interred The remains of Hon Col. Edward Lloyd, who departed this life The 27th of January 1770, Aged 59 years.
Here lieth intered the remains of Colonel Edward Lloyd, who was born the 15th of November 1744, and departed this life the 8th of July 1796.
Here lieth intered the remains of Elizabeth Lloyd, who was born the 17th of March 1750, and departed this life the 17th of Feb'y 1825.
Here lieth intered the remains of Col. Edward Lloyd, who was born the 22d of July 1779, and departed this life the 2d of June 1834.
St. Luke's, Wye, has its history and its traditions also; among the latter is one to the effect that a colonial rector is buried beneath the chancel, his name having been forgotten. A few years ago, the Rev. Mr. Batte, then in charge of the parish, found pinned to the altar cloth a scrap of paper with the following words:
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May 12th, 1897.
The remains buried under this altar are those of the Rev. Christopher Wilkinson-I am a descendant of the above-
MRS. A. C. TAYLOR, Ellicott City, Md.
Another rector, buried at St. Luke's, was the Rev. Elisha Riggs, whose epitaph reads as follows:
Beneath this stone lie the remains of that eminent & faithful servant of God, the Rev. Elisha Riggs, Rector of this parish from A. D. 1797 until his death, Feb. 6th, 1804. "The Memory of the just is blessed."
A large vacant area, under the trees beside the church, is pointed out as the oldest part of the burying ground, but there is not a stone or mound visible. In the newer portion are lots inclosed with iron railings, containing memorials of a comparatively recent date, on which are inscribed the names of Davis, Rose and Davison. The oldest inscription dis- covered is:
To the memory of Mary, wife of Greenberry Griffin, who departed this life February 20th 1821, In the 48th year of her age.
The church, a venerable structure built as a chapel of ease to St. Peter's parish, is near Wye Mills. In the same neighborhood is the Coppage place where the remains of an old graveyard have been reported. Just over the border in Queen Anne's are two old Paca places and a Carmichael place, all of which have family burying grounds. In one of these, William Paca, the "Signer," and his wife are said to be buried, but the stones, if there be any, are covered with periwinkle and wild honeysuckle, and the inscriptions are inaccessible.
Underneath Christ church, St. Michael's, lie the remains of a former rector of the parish, the Rev. Henry Nicols. The stone marking his grave shows a Latin inscription, as follows:
Jacent Exuvia H. Nicols, A. M., Collegii Jesu Ox: Olim Socii; Hujus Ecclesia Pastoris, Indignissimi per annos 41. Nati Aprilis 3, 1678. salvam fac Animam Christe, Prosmeritis tuis. Vixit Annos 70. Sal fatuum Con- culcate. Hæc ipse jussit insculpenda.
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There is a very old marble tablet on the wall of the church, inscribed with the name of John Chamberlaine, who departed this life, June 1, 1721, in the 31st year of his life. It also bears his coat of arms; a shield on a lion skin surrounded by eight stars.
There are, or were, in 1871, three old tombstones at the rear of the church. Two of them are broad, flat slabs, one being to the memory of Tamberlain Davis, who died February 20, 1731, in the 33d year of his age, and about whom not even a tradition is left; the other to Mr. James Edge of Talbot county, Gent., who departed this life the sixth day of January, 1759, aged 47 years. On the third stone appears simply the name Thomas Edge, Obt. 15 Sept. 1742, Æt 28 years.
Capt. James Murphy, who perpetuated the title of one of the first tracts of land laid out in the county, died in 1698 and was buried on Rich Neck, a few miles from St. Michael's. The exact wording of the inscription on his tomb has not been obtained.
Other inscriptions at "Rich Neck " are:
In Memory of Mrs. Margaret Ward, Daughter of Coll. Phill. Lloyd, who died September the 12th A. Dom. 1747.
Hon. Matthew Tilghman Ward Esqr., who not long before his Death Composed the following Epitaph:
This was the Second Partner of my Bed
With whom a long and happy Life I've lead.
Tho' without Children to Assist in years,
Yet free from Parents' cares and Parents' fears.
In love and Friendship all our Years were spent,
In moderate Wealth and free from want, content, Our pious Souls, with pious thoughts inspired To worship God and profit man; desired Religious laws and customs to pursue,
Not slighting old ones nor too fond of new,
But chusing such as since they first began,
Best serv'd ye Praising God & common Good of man.
To the Memory of Matthew Tilghman Esqr, Who Departed this life on the 4th Day of May 1790, In the 73d year of His Age. Also of Ann Tilghman His Wife, Who followed Him on the 15th Day of March
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1794, in the 72d year of Her Age. This Monument is Inscribed By their Surviving Children As the last tribute of their Affection And Respect.
In Memory of Matthew Ward Tilghman, Eldest Son of Matthew Tilgh- man and Ann his Wife, Died March the 17th 1753, in the 9th year of his age.
Alas! how uncertain is Life. In youth and full Health, A fated stroke on his Leg fractured the Bone, and within three days Put an end to his Life, and to his Parents' early Hope.
Inscriptions on the altar tombs at "Spencer Hall," Talbot county, copied by Richard Henry Spencer, in September, 1871, are as follows:
Mary Spencer, Departed this life the 2nd day of June 1807, aged 45 years.
In memory of Dorothy Spencer, who departed this life on the 25th of Aug. A. D. 1812, aged 21 years.
In memory of Col. Perry Spencer, who departed this life on the 15th November 1822, in the 67th year of his age.
"A man's good deeds are his best monument."
In memory of Capt. Richard Spencer, who departed this life on the 26th Jan'y A. D. 1819, in the 59th year of his age.
In memory of Mrs. Eleanor Spencer, wife of Capt. Richard Spencer, who departed this life on the 5th day of August A. D. 1829, in the 64th year of her age.
In memory of Ellen Spencer, daughter of Joseph and Frances Spencer, who was born June 24th A. D. 1815, and died August 9th, A. D. 1829.
In memory of Lambert Wickes Spencer, who departed this life Oct. 5th 1836, in the 60th year of his age.
Inscriptions on tombs at "Hampden," Talbot county, Md., copied in 1873, before they were removed to Spring Hill cemetery, Easton, Md.
Here lyeth ye body of Elizabeth Martin borne in Hertfordshire, late wife of Thomas Martin, who departed this life in the year 1676, aged 40 years.
A dame of virtue, and esteemed to be,
Who seldom was from home or family.
O Lord of Mercy, since it is our fate,
Prepare us for the immortal state.
She was Elizabeth Day, born in Hertfordshire, Eng., in 1636. Her husband, Thomas Martin, of "Hampden," born, it is claimed, in Dorsetshire, Eng., in 1629, died in Talbot county, Md., in 1701, aged 72 years.
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Here lyeth the body of John Day borne in Maryland, who departed this life in the yeare Anno Dom. 1676.
He was the nephew of Elizabeth Day, wife of Thomas Martin.
Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth Martin, borne in Maryland, ye daughter of Thomas Martin. She departed this life in the yeare Anno Dom. 1676.
Here lies the body of Thomas Martin, who departed this life April 29th, 1782, Aged sixty-two years, ten months & thirteen days.
Honesty, sobriety and industry constituted him a useful and good citizen; affection and tenderness endeared him to his family, while a sincere be- nevolence secured him the esteem and respect of his neighbors.
Here lies the body of Mary Ennalls Martin, wife of Thomas Martin, who departed this life December 4th, 1771, Aged forty-seven years, three months and thirteen days.
The mother who instils useful instruction into the tender minds sows the seed of Virtue, and Her children arise up and call her blessed.
Here lies the body of Mary Martin, the second wife of Thomas Martin, who departed this life Dcember Ist. 1796, Aged 65 years, 4 months and 15 days.
As a tribute of affection and grateful remembrance, this stone is erected by one of her affectionate stepsons, Joseph Martin.
Mrs. Martin was the eldest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Airey, rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Md., and his first wife, Elizabeth Pitt. Her youngest sister, Louisa Airey, married Robert Gilmor of Baltimore. Rev. Thos. Airey was born at Kendal, Yorkshire, Eng., in 1701. He came to this province in 1726, and was inducted into the office of priest of Great Choptank parish, Dorchester county, in 1728, by letter received from the Lord Proprietary, Charles Calvert, Governor of Maryland.
A large white monument of imposing design marks the grave of Hon. Daniel Martin, at Spring Hill cemetery, Easton. It is inscribed :
To the memory of Daniel Martin, who departed this life on the 11th day of July 1831, aged 50 years and 7 months, this stone is dedicated. He was distinguished by the confidence of his fellow-citizens, having been often called to fill various posts of honor and of trust. In the last of these as Governor of his native State, to which he had been twice elected, he de-
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scended to the tomb. Thus closed his bright career of honor and usefulness. In the death lamented as in life he had been honored.
To the Spring Hill cemetery have been removed many of the bodies that once reposed in the old Whitemarsh church- yard, as well as others from private burying grounds, on estates that have passed to strangers. The oldest gravestones here, taken from Mr. A. L. Richardson's list, made in 1906, are as follows:
Margaret Allen, wife of Bennett Allen, born Aug. 10, 1810; died Sept. 24, 1842.
Marion E. Bullen, daughter of Wm & E. E. Bullen, d. Aug. 15, 1843, aged 7 years, 10 months & 23 days.
Harriet Bennett, wife of the late Thomas Bennett, d. Jan. 8th 1832. Thomas Bennett, d. at Annapolis Feb. 23, 1827, in his 34th year.
Rachel Bennett, d. April 25, 1845, in her 72d year.
John Bennett, d. Jan 27, 1838, in his 69th year.
Thomas Carter, d. June 14, 1850, aged 63 years.
Thomas Edmund & James White Cox, children of Whittington & Susan A. Cox, 1833 & 1845.
Elizabeth Dawson, d. Oct. 1, 1842, in her 92d. year.
T. H. Dawson, d. Nov. 14, 1841, in his 60th year.
Thomas Scott Dawson, d. Aug. 11, 1842, aged 30 years, 10 months & 4 days.
John M. G. Emory, d. Dec. 17, 1836, in his 52nd year.
P. H. Feddeman, d. Sept. 3, 1845, aged 29 years and 1 month.
Anna M. Feddeman, d. July 27, 1845, aged 28 years, 6 months & 27 days.
Mary Feddeman, daughter of Daniel & Rebecca Feddeman, d. Oct. 14, 1846, in her 39th year.
Eli H. Furniss, d. May 12, 1846, in his 45th year.
Mary E. Faulkner, wife of Thomas M. Faulkner, died March 2, 1846, aged 29 years.
Ann M. Faulkner, wife of Wm. H. Faulkner, d. Oct. 9, 1845, aged 21 years.
Caroline F. Faulkner, wife of W. H. Faulkner, d. Aug. 14, 1848, in the 21st. year.
Benjamin Faulkner, d. Sept. 28, 1844, aged 27 years, 4 months & 12 days. Samuel Groome, died March 14, 1828, aged 50 years, 10 months & 5 days.
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Eliza Groome, wife of Peregrine Groome, d. March 5, 1845, in her 67th year.
Alex. Graham, d. Dec. 1, 1845, aged 56 years.
Eliza Clementson Graham, d. Sept. 3, 1833, aged 33 years.
Henrietta Maria, Samuel C. & Francis Goldsborough, children of John C. & Mary E. Goldsborough, all died before 1847.
Henry Goldsborough, d. Aug. 7, 1832, aged 40 years.
Margaret Goldsborough, wife of Henry Goldsborough, d. Apr. 8, 1863, aged 72 years.
John Goldsborough, d. Aug. 12, 1840, aged 73 years.
Mrs. A. M. Goldsborough, d. Jan 26, 1836.
John C. Goldsborough, b. Sept. 22, 1801, d. July, 1844.
Mary Goldsborough, widow of Dr. Howes Goldsborough, d. March 14, 1821, aged 47 years.
Dr. Nicholas Hammond, d. Nov. 10, 1831, aged 56 years.
Col. Wm. Hughlett, b. April 16th 1769 near Greensborough, Caroline Co., d. Dec. 7, 1845, aged 76 years, 7 months & 21 days.
Mary Hughlett, widow of Col. Wm. Hughlett, b. Sept. 19, 1793; d. Dec. 19, 1863.
John A., Susan & Henrietta Hambleton, children of Samuel & Elizabeth Hambleton, died between the years 1847 & 1849.
Rev. Charles W. Jacobs, minister of the Methodist Protestant Church, b. in Alexandria, D. C., Oct. 30, 1812; d. in Easton, Md., Jan. 20, 1833.
Wm. Owen Kennard, infant son of Samuel T. & Elizabeth Kennard, d. Nov. 5, 1830.
Samuel T. Kennard, b. March 16, 1793; d. Sept. 17, 1845.
Amelia H. Kennard, d. March 1, 1827, aged 22 years, 7 months & 15 days. Frisby Kirby, d. May 6, 1828, in his 41st. year.
Martha J. Kirby, wife of Frisby Kirby, d. June 25, 1851, in her 31st year. Jacob Loockerman, b. Jan. 22, 1759, d. June 17, 1839.
Mary Loockerman, wife of Jacob Loockerman, b. May 23, 1774; d. Sept 14, 1840.
John Loockerman, son of Jacob Loockerman, b. Dec. 9, 1789; d. Dec. 24, 1846.
Ennalls Martin, M. D., b. Aug. 23, 1758; d. Dec. 16, 1834.
Sarah H. Martin, wife of Ennalls Martin, M. D., b. in Worcester Co., Md., Nov. 22, 1768; d. in Easton, June 3, 1835.
Mary A. Marshall, daughter of Richard & Henrietta Marshall, b. Feb. 9, 1809; d. Nov. 13, 1835.
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Martha A. Mackey, wife of Alex. H. Mackey, b. Dec. 23, 1815; d. Sept. 27, 1843.
Miss Matilda McCallamont, d. Feb. 4, 1832, aged 24 years.
Susannah Murray, wife of John A. Murray, d. Sept. 2, 1846, in her 41st. year.
William Newman, d. March 5, 1847, aged 69.
Margaret Newman, d. Nov. 11, 1826.
John Ozman, died March 21, 1848, aged 28 years.
Lucy Ozment, wife of John Ozment, d. Dec. 21, 1845, in her 58th year.
Maria Josephine Pascault, daughter of Alexis A. & Maria E. Pascault, b. July 3, 1849; d. Oct. 12, 1850.
Mary Eliza Plummer, d. Sept. 19, 1843, in her 17th year.
Mrs. Caroline Rowlenson, wife of Wm. T. Rowlenson, d. March 19, 1849, in her 24th year.
Elizabeth Spedden, d. Jan. 30th, 1831, aged 32 years, 9 months & 26 days.
Sarah S. Singleton, b. June 22, 1793; d. Nov. 27th. 1847.
Ann M. D. Singleton, wife of Thomas B. Singleton, d. Oct. 6, 1843, in her 40th year.
Mrs. Sarah Sherwood, d. March 5, 1846, aged 65 years, wife of the late Capt. Philemon Sherwood.
Mary Satterfield, wife of John Satterfield, d. Oct. 1, 1841, in her 26th year.
Quakers appeared in America in 1656, and in Maryland the year after. Though a proclamation was issued against them in 1658, we find them holding minor offices here in 1665, and relieved, three years later, from taking the oath in testamentary cases. In 1692, they were allowed to "affirm" where an oath was required from others. Thus we see how the industrious and peaceable Friend was welcomed in Mary- land, and in less than thirty-six years had established for himself a reputation as a person of firm convictions and re- ligious scruples, and as a law-abiding citizen, whose word could be accepted without challenge.
A local writer, probably the late Samuel Harrison of Talbot county, speaks of the simple burial customs of the Quakers in these words:
"They, who look forward with such confidence to our
THE OLD "TRED-AVON" FRIENDS' MEETING-HOUSE Built in 1684 and over two hundred years old when destroyed by fire a few years ago
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immortality beyond the grave, are not apt to be solicitous for their transitory fame, that most glowing epitaphs upon perishable marble bestow; and they build no shrines to which pious pilgrimages may be made, over the relics of their saints."
Back of the old meetinghouse, built near the Tred-Avon, in 1684, as a successor to the earlier one at Betty's Cove, there are neat rows of little tombstones, showing how the Friends of yore cared for their dead. To be sure there is nothing here to reward persons in search of scraps of family history, or of curious epitaphs that mostly provoke a smile; only, in the carefully preserved "Minuits" of the great Tred-Avon Meet- ing may be found an unbroken record of a Christian sect, planted in a new country and holding its own for two cen- turies and a half.
Quite a remarkable man, who stands out prominently in the early history of the Friends in this country, was Wenlock Christison. Persecuted in Massachusetts, where he was thrown into prison and condemned to death, he found refuge in Maryland upon his escape. In 1670, Peter Sharpe, a member of the same faith, gave him 150 acres of land in Talbot county, and remembered him in his will besides. Other gifts of servants and lands followed, and honors also were heaped upon him. At his house was held in 1677, the first man's or business meeting of which there is any record, and as late as 1678, he was a member of the House of Bur- gesses; but, as early as 1679, his wife appears on the Minutes as about to marry again! Such was the demand for wives in the first fifty years of settlement, and even later on, that the only way for a widow to rid herself of the importunity of many suitors was quickly to take to herself a second spouse.
In 1681, John Edmonson was elected to fill the place in the Meeting left vacant by Christison's death, and shortly after
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the old meetinghouse at Betty's Cove was abandoned for the wooden building on the Tred-Avon, erected in 1684, and still standing up to within ten years ago. Not a fragment is left of the earlier building, or a scrap of stone, to show where the first body of Quakers met, worshiped and were buried.
CHAPTER XI
C ECIL county, at the head of the Chesapeake Bay, is watered by the Susquehanna, the Sassafras, the Elk and the South Elk rivers. From the first, this section offered natural advantages as a place of settlement and had become an active business center while it still formed a part of Balti- more county. In fact, the first Baltimore town was located, it is said, on the banks of the Elk river below where Elkton now stands. On June 9, 1692, however, when the laying out of parishes had been decreed by Act of Assembly, Cecil enjoyed a separate existence, and on the twenty-second of November of the same year, the county commissioners divided it into two parishes called respectively North and South Sassafras. A few years later in adjusting the border lines between Cecil and Kent counties, South Sassafras was evi- dently juggled out of existence, for we hear of it no more; but the growth of Shrewsbury parish, Kent county, south of the Sassafras river, can be traced from this time.
The loss to Cecil was made up for, in 1706, by the creation of St. Mary Anne's or North Elk parish, and at the present day most of the ecclesiastical traditions of the county cluster about the two churches, St. Mary's, North Elk, and St. Stephens, North Sassafras. The former was built in 1742, and the latter, though it has seen a succession of church edifices-not always on the same site-celebrated its two hundredth anniversary in May, 1893. This church stands at the head of the Bohemia river. Three of the commis- sioners, Casparus Herman, William Ward and Henry Riggs, were among its first vestrymen; John Thompson, Edward
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Jones and Matthias Vanderhuyden being the others. Three hundred and twenty-one persons represented the taxables, who contributed to the support of the parish, and tobacco was the staple with which their obligations were discharged.
There were many delays about the building of St. Stephens, but in 1703 it was sufficiently advanced for the vestry meeting to be held within its walls. In 1706 it was dedicated by the rector, Rev. Richard Sewell. Another rector, the Rev. Hugh Jones, officiated here for thirty years, being held in high esteem by the whole community. He died in 1760, at the age of 90 years and was buried near the church.
It is a pity that we have been unable to explore either this ancient churchyard or that of St. Mary Anne's, North Elk. The vestry records of these two parishes are rich in names of men, prominent in the affairs of the Province in early times. In St. Mary's church is the tomb of Rev. Joseph Coudon, one of its rectors, whose ashes repose beneath the altar. His epitaph reads thus:
In Memory of Reverend Joseph Coudon, Rector of St. Mary Anne's Parish, A Zealous and Indefatigable Preacher of the Gospel, Who De- parted this Life the 13th, April, 1792, And in the 51st year of his age.
With Augustine Herman is associated the laying out of Cecil county, and his Manor of Bohemia forms one of the centers of local history and tradition. His "monument" stone, as he calls it in his will, has of late years been inserted in the walls of the present dwelling, and it was probably prepared in his lifetime, for it does not record his death, which occurred about the year 1686. We do not know whether it ever marked his grave, and although it was used by a later generation as a door to a vault, it can hardly be considered a memorial of anything but what is represented on its surface. It reads:
Avgvtine Herman, Bohemian, The First Founder, seater of Bohemea Manner, Anno, 1661.
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Six generations are supposed to be buried in the Baldwin- Milligan-McLane graveyard, on a farm known as “Bohe- mia."
Of the first the graves have been disturbed, the stones broken and defaced. The second is represented by Col. John Baldwin, his wife and Mrs. Van Bibber. The others can be listed with the dates.
Third generation: George Milligan, died at Bohemia, 1783. Catherine, his wife, daughter of John Baldwin, 1759. Mrs. Thompson, daughter of John Baldwin, 1766.
Fourth generation. The last three have been removed: George Milligan, son of George, died about 1758. Mary, daughter of George Milligan, and wife of James Christie of Durie, Fife, N. Britain, died at Baltimore, December, 1774. Margaret, daughter of George Milligan, died at Philadel- phia, 1792. Robert, son of George Milligan, died in Phila- delphia, 1805. Sarah Jones, wife of Robert, died at Bohemia, 1795.
Fifth generation : Mary, infant daughter of James Christie, died in Baltimore, 1774. Catherine, wife of Louis McLane, and daughter of Robert Milligan, died in Baltimore, was buried here in 18 . . . ( ?), being afterwards removed.
Sixth generation, the last two of which have been removed: Catherine, infant daughter of Louis McLane, died at Wash- ington, 1818. Kitty McLane, daughter of Louis McLane, died at Baltimore, aged 20. Catherine Christie, daughter of Thos. Christie and granddaughter of James Christie, Scot- land, died at Wilmington, Del., aged 13 years, 1826.
The " Cromwell " burying ground, on "Success farm," brings us in touch with the descendants of the Protector's Uncle Oliver, after whom he was named, and who represented the elder branch-of the Cromwell family, seated at Hinching- brook, near Huntington, England. That is to say, William and John Cromwell, who came to Maryland on board the
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Benona Eaton, March 11, 1671, and took up land here, are supposed to have been the grandsons of the elder Oliver. William became a member of his Lordship's Council, married twice, returned to England and died there in 1684. His de- scendants in Maryland intermarried with the Dorseys and Hammonds of Howard and Anne Arundel counties, and after the Revolution, " Success " farm was inherited by John Ham- mond Cromwell, who is buried there. On a monument is preserved his name, with those of his descendants interred near by:
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