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When John Coode, the apostate clergyman, had been elected a burgess, Governor Nicholson was determined that he should not sit, because no clergyman had ever sat in the Assembly. The House stood on its privileges, but Nicholson would not swear him, and having won the cause, Coode retired to swear vengeance on the Gov- ernor. In the face of it the burgesses thus addressed the Governor, " We have not the least doubt of our rights or liberties being infringed by our gracious Sovereign or our noble and worthy Governor, and we do sincerely acknowledge that his Excellency governs by the fairest measures and freest administration of the laws we are capable of understanding, and therefore, have not the least apprehension of his invading our rights or privileges."
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A Commission, consisting of Major John Hammond, Major Edward Dorsey, Mr. John Bennett, Hon. John Dorsey, Mr. Andrew Norwood, Captain Philip Howard, Mr. James Saunders and Colonel Nicholas Greenberry laid out the town. Four of these were property holders on the North Severn side and four were residents of Middle Neck. They were authorized to buy, or condemn, all that parcel of land within the present Grave Yard Creek and Spa Creek, to be fenced in and called the Town Common, or Pasture; Governor Nicholson's lot was within this enclosure, which ran along East Street to State House Circle. His house was of curious and ancient design. It stood on the corner of Hyde and Cornhill Streets and was for many years occupied by Mrs. Richard Ridgely (Riley).
During Governor Nicholson's administration in 1695, a public post, extending from the Potomac, through Annapolis to Philadelphia was organized. The post-man was required to traverse it eight times a year, to carry all public messages, to deliver letters and pack- ages, for which service he received £50 a year. This was succeeded, in 1710, by a general post throughout the colonies.
A picture is extant of a house, No. 83 Prince George Street, Annapolis, which tradition decides is a part of the house owned by Major Edward Dorsey, which became the first Governor's mansion, being later occupied by Governor Nicholson. The house is well preserved and is of solid architecture. It was formerly the residence of Judge A. B. Hagner and is now owned by Mrs. Francis T. Marchand. An addition was made some years ago on the right wing.
Annapolis lately retained three more Governor's mansions.
In 1696 the Assembly of Annapolis appointed His Excellency, Sir Francis Nicholson, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Hon. Nicholas Greenberry, Hon. Thomas Tench, Major Hammond, Major Edward Dorsey, Mr. James Saunders and Captain Richard Hill a Commission " for keeping good rules and orders," making them a body corporate for the new capital. Mr. Richard Beard, surveyor, made a map of the place. This body was authorized to erect a market house and hold a fair yearly; a new State House was ordered to be built, and if any one would build it a "Bridewell" was proposed. This was not built, but a handsome pair of gates was ordered to be placed at the " coming in of the town" and two triangular houses built for rangers.
"To have the way from the gate to go directly to the top of the hill without the towne, to be ditched on each side and set with 'quick setts,' or some such thing.
"That part of the land which lye on ye creeke by Major Dorsey's house, whereby His Excellency at present lives, be sett aside for public buildings, and if in case the same happen to come within any of ye said Major's lotts-we propose that land be given him elsewhere for it."
A forty-foot water front for warehouses was reserved, and a com- mittee was appointed to consider the erection of a church. Major Edward Dorsey, of that committee, reported a fund already in
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"banck" amounting to £458. The carpenter's estimate was £250; brick maker, £90; bricklayer, having all stuff upon the place, £220. The entire charge would amount to £1,200. The Assembly imposed a three-pence tax on tobacco to be continued until May 12, 1698, to be applied to building a church at Annapolis. The Assembly employed Mr. Gaddes, sent by the Bishop of London, to read prayers in some vacant parish, for which 10,000 pounds of tobacco were appropriated in remuneration. The next act was the founding of "King William School." The valuable library presented by the King was increased by Governor Nicholson, who used a portion of the public revenue in the purchase of necessary books. Many of the volumes presented by the King to Annapolis are now in the library of St. John's College.
Following these was the erection of a jail on the corner of a lot belonging to the Episcopal parsonage. When completed, Annapolis was made the chief seat of justice, where all writs were made returnable.
In 1700 a general visitation of the provincial clergy was held on May 23rd. Anne Arundel was represented by Rev. Henry Hall, of St. James Parish; Rev. Joseph Colback, of All Hallows, and Rev. Edward Topp, of St. Anne's.
This convocation inaugurated the first missions of the province. Rev. Ethan Allen's History of St. Anne's Parish has given consider- able light upon early Annapolis, but the loss of the first twelve pages of the parish records leaves the completion of the church to conjec- ture. Referring to the early Puritans at Annapolis, he adds, "It is not known that there were any other than Puritans among the resi- dents in 1657. There were the Lloyds, the Maccubins, the Ridgelys, the Griffiths, the Greenberrys, the Worthingtons and others, nearly all of Welsh descent. Their place of worship was "Town Neck." In 1683, he further adds, " And that there was, thus early, Church of England families in the neighborhood, is unquestionable. Such we take to have been the Warfields, the Gassaways, the Norwoods, the Blands, the Howards, the Dorseys, and the Hammonds."
The Assembly Act of 1692, organizing thirty parishes in the Province, required returns from existing churches. In 1696 Rev. Mr. Coney, rector of St. Anne's, reported 374 contributors and named the following vestry: Thomas Bland, Richard Warfield, Laurence Draper, Jacob Harness, William Brown and Cornelius Howard. In 1704, its second vestry, reported by Rev. Mr. Topp, its second rector, and by Rev. James Wootten, its third, were Colonel John Hammond, Mr. William Bladen, Mr. William Taylord, Mr. Amos Garrett, Mr. John Truman and Mr. Samuel Norwood. The entries upon the parish records of that date show the church then finished. The site, the most attractive and interesting in the city of Annapolis, was selected by Governor Nicholson and was bought of Benjamin and Henry Welsh, for £130. The church was built in the shape of a T. The principal entrance was from the east. One lot of the selected ground was designed for the rector, one for the sexton and the third
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for the vestry clerk. Within, and outside of the present circle was the cemetery, now removed to Cemetery Creek. A few remaining memorials may yet be read in the sacred enclosure.
The second State House was finished in 1706. It stood upon the site of the present stately building. It was in form an oblong square, entered by a hall; a cupola surmounted it. On the north side of it stood an armory which was also the ballroom. On the south side of the State House was King William School.
To restore the land records destroyed by the fire of 1704, a special commission was organized to hear and determine claims for land grants. Colonel William Holland was Chief Commissioner. The report of that Commission now forms a part of the land records of Annapolis.
GOVERNOR BLACKISTON.
Governor Blackiston, who succeeded Governor Nicholson, on account of his health, did not long remain, and Hon, Thomas Tench, President of the Council, acted as Governor until 1703, when Governor John Seymour was appointed.
GOVERNOR SEYMOUR.
Finding the Assembly averse to granting a charter to the em- bryo city, the Governor, in 1708, granted one in his own name. This act created much resentment among the landed officials. They were ready to admit such power was given by the charter to the Proprie- tary, but in no manner could a royal Governor claim it. The two delegates elected under the charter were expelled from the Assembly. The Governor tried to conciliate the opponents, but failing, finally dissolved them. The new Assembly was of the same sentiment. Its first act was to demand the Governor's authority from the Queen to erect a city. A compromise was finally effected, with certain restrictions. A writer from Maryland, who saw the young capital then, recorded: "There are several places for towns, but hitherto they are only titular ones, except Annapolis, where the Governor resides. Colonel Nicholson has done his endeavors to make a town of that place. There are about forty dwelling houses in it, seven or eight of which can afford good lodging and accommodations for strangers. There are also a State House and a free school built of brick, which make a great show among a parcel of wooden houses; and a founda- tion of a church is laid, the only brick church in Maryland. They have two market-days in a week, and had Governor Nicholson con- tinued there a few months longer, he had brought it to perfection."
But Annapolis on Proctor's Landing was no recent production of Governor Nicholson. As early as 1681, Robert Proctor, writing to Captain Thomas Francis, of Rhode River, asked a reply to be made to him at "town." Major Edward Dorsey was then living at Proc- tor's Landing and had more than one house in that town when the Assembly rented his house. In 1705, just before his death, he sold to Charles Carroll "a row of houses on Bloombury Square" which he
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had designed for his children, but on account of a lack of "tenants they were going to decay." These are evidences that Annapolis, when incorporated the capital, had a claim to its present name of "ancient city." Nor was Annapolis the only town then existing. It had its neighbor, Westminster Towne, near the Magothy, as will be seen in a notice of Westminster Parish, which was named for the town and had its rival down on South River, known as London Town.
In visiting the site of this once prosperous enterprise on the beau- tiful South River, I asked an officer of the steamer that has for many years made almost daily trips up and down that river, if he could point out London Town. The astonished officer replied, "I never heard of it," and yet, in 1683, this town was made a port of entry.
Upon a sloping plateau between two creeks, just at the present Almshouse, rose a town which was intended to rival its namesake. It only failed because of the death of its projector, Colonel William Burgess, in 1686 .. It was his gift to the county, and his son, Captain Edward Burgess, was a Commissioner. When the Lord Proprietary determined, in 1683, "to locate the Court House on South River as soon as a suitable building should be erected," Colonel Burgess secured a Commission, all of whom were large land-holders in that section. A meeting of that Commission was held at "The Ridge" (John Larkin's house where the Assembly met), just west of South River. After that meeting, which reported progress, the Archives are silent, but the following deed shows that a Court House was erected and John Larkin then held it. In 1699 John Larkin sold to John Baldwin "two lots in London Town with all houses, outhouses and other improvements, excepting the twenty-five-foot house wherein the court was formerly held, as also as much ground besides, between the said house and the water, as shall be sufficient to erect and build a twenty-foot house upon."
When the magnificent, stately old building, now used as the Almshouse was built, may never be known, but its appearance and its large rooms point rather to public, than private purposes. It is upon the town site of London Town, described in Colonel Burgess' will of 1686. An official of Anne Arundel, now seventy-five years of age, tells me it was an old building when he was a boy. Near it stood a store. There are several houses upon the same plateau which show kindred age. The probabilities are, that our present Treasury Build- ing in Annapolis and the present Almshouse of South River were both built as Court Houses when Proctor's Landing and "Colonel Burgess' land on South River" were made into ports of entry, in 1683.
London Town had its shipping wharf and its streets named in honor of the most important land-holders. Its commission, all of whom held lots, were Colonel Thomas Taylor, Colonel William Bur- gess, Major John Welsh, Thomas Francis, Richard Hill, Nicholas Gassaway, Henry Constable, Edward Dorsey, John Sollers, Henry Ridgely, Richard Beard and Edward Burgess.
Thomas Gassaway in 1718, sold Lot No. 28 in London Town to Thomas Ball, a merchant of London. It adjoined a lot granted to
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Colonel Thomas Taylor. Honorable George Plater and Elizabeth, his wife, deeded Lot 29 to Thomas Gassaway, son of John, in 1749; John Burgess and Jane, his wife, sold a lot to Stephen West before 1733. Alexander Warfield and Francis Pierpoint, his brother-in-law, sold a lot to William Maccubbin, in 1719, which lot had been taken up by Francis Pierpoint, the elder.
Colonel Henry Ridgely held lots in London Town, which he sold before his death, in 1710. Many other transfers of lots may be seen in our Record Office.
London Town was a port of entry at the same time as Annapolis. Surrounding it was the richest agricultural section of the country. The largest land-holders were there located. Near by was All Hal- lows Church and the South River Club, both still in existence and both bearing abundant evidence of their dignified age and eminent respectability.
South River had a rector, Rev. Duell Pead, who baptized at Proctor in 1682 and preached to the assembly at the Ridge, in 1683, as recorded in "Old Brick Churches." He later became the rector of All Hallows. This church dates from 1722. Its church-yard has the following monuments to the titled men who dwelt therein.
A tablet with his coat of arms announces the death of Samuel Peale, of London Town, in 1733. A Latin inscription in 1766, records the virtues of Margaret, wife of James Dick, merchant of London Town. The oldest inscription is that of Major Thomas Francis, of Rhode River, a pioneer ranger of that section. Colonel Burgess' memorial tablet follows and will be elsewhere found. Dating back to 1733, the Anne Arundel Society have found inscriptions to the following: Greenberry, Gassaway, Ridgely, Worthington, Newman, Homewood, Howard, Peele of Weshire, Dick, Allein, Craggs, Nor- wood, Rawlings, Norris, Davidson, Maccubbin, Hammond, Graham, Curten, Key, Robinson, Robosson, Brewer and Carroll.
Family records so collected are Sellman, Stockett, Harwood, Griffith, Worthington, Davis, Riggs, Frisby, Dorsey, Warfield, Humphrey.
All Hallows Church is entered by the south door and opens into a vestry room at the west end which was once surmounted by a belfry with a bell bearing date 1727. The floor of the aisle is tiled and lies lower than that of the pews. The windows are double with segmental arch.
In 1727, the Bishop of London sent for the rector, Rev. Joseph Colbatch to come to England for consecration. The civil authorities procured a writ of ne excat, which prevented his leaving the Pro- vince and Maryland had no bishop until the consecration of Bishop Claggett.
St. James Parish, at Herring Creek, had a church that needed repairs, in 1695, as shown by the following record:
" At a meeting of the vestry, April 1, 1695, it was ordered that the Sheriff pay to Morgan Jones eight hundred pounds of tobacco for covering the old church and finishing the inside according to
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agreement." At another meeting the same month, an order was made to build a new church "forty feet by twenty-four and twelve feet high." This was not carried out until 1717, when the vestry ordered and paid for, in 1718, twenty thousand brick made on the glebe-acquired, in 1707, from James and Elizabeth Rigby.
The vestry of St. James had a long contest over a tract of land containing 715 acres. It was willed by Nicholas Terret to St. James Church. Upon it was a town Pig Point. It was known as Wrighton and had been transferred by several deeds to Robert Browne, of Abel and was later held by his heirs. The vestry resolved to sell its interest in the tract to purchase a glebe elsewhere. Pig Point lots were to be reserved. This new town was located on the Patuxent. Our modern maps have, somehow, lost sight of it, but the present post- office of Bristol is near or upon the original site.
THE SOUTH RIVER CLUBTHOUSE.
The South River Club House, near All Hallows Church, still stands and has taken on new life. Its founders are no longer known, but there is a record of a deed, dated 1740, executed between John Gassaway, on the one part and Robert Saunders, a trustee on the other, confirming a previous transaction between the "Society" or company, called the South River Club and John Gassaway's father, acknowledging the receipt by the latter of eight pounds current money for the half acre of land and club house standing on it. A new club house was built in 1742 and from that date a list of members has been preserved. The following recent account of a fourth of July dinner will here be of interest. It is taken from the Baltimore Sun, and is the work of Mr. L. Dorsey Gassaway, Recorder of the Club :
"At the historic old South River Club, in the beautiful First District of Anne Arundel County, where the hillsides show Nature's beauty and giant oaks thrust their green tops high in the sky, there was served yesterday as delightful a Fourth-of-July dinner to as congenial a company as ever sat down together."
The club house, where the dinner was given, is a little, old frame building, white-washed within and without. No carpet adorned the floor and the walls were not ornamented with paper; yet there it has stood for, not years but, centuries. Long before the War of the Revolution, before even the city of Baltimore was in its infancy; in the days when there was a desperate hazard in being a Marylander, the ancestors of the diners of yesterday gathered at this little build- ing and founded the South River Club. Records show that it was in existence with a long list of members in 1742, and there is a tradition, that its organization occurred prior to 1700. Through all the years that followed it flourished, with occasional breaks, due to wars and factional strife, but the early settlers of Southern Maryland con- tinued to meet and be good fellows. The same esprit de corps that existed then exists now, and every present member of the club is
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firmly convinced that it is the oldest social organization in the world, and certainly antedates anything of the kind in this country.
That it shall never die and the spirit that has maintained it so long never lessen is their determination. When they themselves are gone the keeping alive of the South River Club will be transmitted as a sacred heritage to their sons and grandsons. .
The present membership is limited to twenty-five, all of whom are lineal descendants of former members, and four times a year they meet at the little frame house to dine, to renew old friendships and talk over old days. Generation after generation has done this since the founding of the club, and it is the purpose of the members to have future generations follow in their footsteps.
Yesterday the host was Mr. T. Stockett Sellman, the youngest member of the club, who, however, was preceded by a numerous array of ancestors. Some of the twenty-five came to Annapolis the night before the Fourth, others came down on morning trains and others still came from various sections of the country, but the hour of noon found them assembled beneath the great branches of the magnificent oak that stands near the house.
Horses were unharnessed and fed and the guests were refreshed with brimming glasses of the far-famed South River punch. There were in the crowd that gathered about the table inside the humble little cabin, merchants, bankers, brokers, members of the Stock Exchange, lawyers and farmers, many of them men of means and mark, but all imbued with an intense pride in the South River Club.
The dinner was delightfully served, the piece de resistance being a fine young, well-roasted pig, which was skillfully carved by Mr. Harry Brogden, a member who dates his election from 1872.
Judge Alexander Hagner, chairman of the club, presided over the feast, and a feature of the dinner was the presentation to the club of a handsome silver loving cup. It was filled with the famous punch and passed around the board, the members standing as they drank.
Mr. John Wirt Randall accepted the gift in behalf of the club, saying that it was symbolical of the love and affection that existed among the members and would serve, as it passed from hand to hand, to strengthen the bond between them. He spoke of the former days of the club and of the fact that its earliest rule-not to discuss politics or religion at its meetings-had never been broken.
Mr. Brogden spoke of the pleasure and pride in the club taken by its members and of their appreciation of the gift. Mr. Samuel Brooke and Mr. Daniel R. Randall also spoke in a similar vein.
Judge Hagner, in response, declared it to be an honor to him that the cup had been accepted. He recalled the historic time when members of the club drank the health of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland in that very room because of his victory over the Scotch rebels. He made an impressive plea for the continuance of the spirit that had kept the club alive all these years. His remarks were enthusiastically applauded.
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The speech-making was concluded by Mr. John M. Nelson, who told of his admiration for the club and of the fact that the first money. he had ever earned had been in that county by driving a reaper for Mr. Iglehart when he was a lad.
The health of Judge Hagner as chairman, of Mr. Sellman as host and of future reunions were drunk. The loving cup passed some several times and good fellowship reigned supreme.
After the feast a business meeting was held. Judge Hagner was re-elected chairman, and the following resolution, offered by Mr. Daniel R. Randall, was adopted:
"Resolved, That the South River Club accept with profound respect and thanks the gift of a loving cup from its honored chairman, Judge Alexander B. Hagner; and further
"Resolved, That in accepting this beautiful gift the club fully realizes and appreciates the spirit of amity and fellowship which has always actuated this member in his relations with the club and prompted this gift and will ever keep alive that loving spirit so long as this club exists."
The members present were: Judge Alexander B. Hagner, Harry H. Brogden, John Wirt Randall, Blanchard Randall, Daniel R. Ran- dall, T. Stockett Sellman, Thomas S. Duckett, Samuel Brooke, Louis Dorsey Gassaway, Beale D. Worthington, Nevett Steele, Dr. D. Murray Cheston, Benjamin Watkins, John T. Parrott and Thomas S. Iglehart, Jr.
The invited guests were: John M. Nelson, Ramsay Hodges, Jr., O. Bowie Duckett, R. S. Worthington and William L. Amos.
The other members not present at the dinner were: Frank H. Stockett, George H. Stewart, Dr. James D. Iglehart, Paul Iglehart, Richard B. Sellman, James Middleton Munroe, Franklin Weems, Richard W. Iglehart, George R. Gaither, Jr., and William Meade Holladay.
The officers of the club are: Judge A. B. Hagner, chairman; Frank H. Stockett, treasurer; L. Dorsey Gassaway, recorder.
The following list of the former members of the club from the year 1742 has been compiled by Mr. Gassaway, the recorder. In the lists are names of men whose descendants are scattered all over the State and who have had much to do with shaping affairs in Mary- land. The list follows: Prior to 1742, Robert Saunders, Thomas Stockett, James Murat, John Gassaway, Samuel Jacobs, Benjamin Stockett, John Howard, Samuel Burgess, Samuel Day, Robert Hard- ing, Thomas Sparrow, Rev. William Brogden, Captain Joseph Cow- man, John Watkins, William Chapman, Turner Wootton, James Dick, Samuel Chambers, Dr. Samuel Preston Moore, William Chapman, Jr., Captain Anthony Beck, James Nicholson, John Brewer, Captain Christopher Grendall, Zachariah Maccubbin, James Hall, Darby Lux, Henry Gassaway, Jonathan Sellman, Charles Steward and Richard Moore.
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John Dixon, 1742; Thomas Cator, 1744; Joseph Brewer, 1744; John Ijams, 1744; William Reynolds, 1746; Stephen West, Jr., 1751; John Watkins, 1752; John White, 1755; Rev. Archibald Spencer, 1755; Henry Woodward, 1755; Thomas Gassaway, 1755; John Dare, 1755; Joseph Cowman, 1755; Samuel Chapman, 1756; Wil- liam Strachan, 1756; Richard Burgess, 1757; Joseph Brewer, 1757; Lewis Stockett, 1761; Samuel Watkins, 1762; Thomas Gassaway, 1762; Andrew Wilkie, 1762; Colonel Richard Harwood, Jr., 1762; Thomas Stockett, 1763; Captain Thomas Harwood, 1764; Stephen Watkins, 1764; Dr. Thomas Noble Stockett, 1765; Dr. James Thomp- son, 1765; Rezin Hammond, 1770; Thomas Harwood, Jr., 1770; Richard Watkins, 1770; Captain Thomas Watkins, 1770; Dr. Thomas Gantt, 1772; Henry Jones, 1775; William Harwood, 1775; William Saunders, 1775; Dr. William Murray, 1776; John L. Brog- den, 1778; William Sellman, Robert John Smith, 1780; Edward Sefton, 1784; Nicholas Watkins, 1784; Ferdinando Battee, 1784; Charles Stewart, 1784; Benjamin Howard, 1784; Dr. Robert Welsh, 1784; Rev. Mason Locke Weems, 1785; John Weems, 1785; Solomon Sparrow, 1786; Major Jonathan Sellman, 1786; Mr. Samuel Maccub- bin, 1788; Richard Harwood, 1792; David Stewart, 1792; Benjamin Watkins, 1792; Samuel Watkins, 1795; Joseph Watkins, 1795; Dr. Robert Welsh, 1798; John Bard, 1798; Caleb Stewart, 1798; Thomas Purdy, 1798; William Stewart, 1798; James Macculloch, 1798; Benjamin Welsh, 1798; Edward Lee, 1798; Solomon Sparrow, Jr., 1798; Major Thomas Harwood, 1798; William Brogden, 1798; Joseph Cowman, 1798; Robert Welsh, 1803; Osborn S. Harwood, 1805; William Elliott, 1805; Richard Stewart, 1805; James Noble Stockett, 1806; John Gassaway, 1806; William Sanders, 1807; Ferdinando Battee, 1807; John B. Weems, 1810; Joseph Harwood, 1814; John Watkins, 1814; Samuel Harrison, 1814; John S. Stockett, 1818; Thomas Snowden, 1825; Richard Sellman, 1825; Dr. William Brogden, 1825; John Stevens Sellman, 1826; John Mercer, 1826; Virgil Moxcey, 1826; Thomas Snowden, 1835; O. S. Harwood, 1835; Richard C. Hardesty, 1835; John T. Hodges, 1835; Ramsey, Waters, 1835; Colonel Robert W. Kent, 1835; Dr. Benjamin Watkins, 1835; Thomas Welsh, 1835; James. H. Harwood, 1835;" Alfred Sellman, 1835; James Harper, 1835; W. H. Woodfield, 1835; Edward Clagett, 1836; David McC. Brogden, 1836; Joseph E. Cowman, 1836; Dr. Richard Harwood, 1837; James B. Smith, 1837; Thomas Hodges, 1837; John Mercer, 1838; Captain Isaac Mayo, 1842; Thomas S. Iglehart, 1842; Charles C. Stewart, 1844; George Gale, 1844; Wil- liam O'Hara, 1844; John H. Sellman, 1848; R. S. Mercer, 1848; John C. Rogers, 1849; Franklin Deale, 1849; James Kent, 1849; George D. Clayton, 1850; Dr. William N. Pendell, 1850; Colonel G. W. Hughes, 1851; Thomas S. Mercer, 1851; Henry Latrobe, 1851; Hamilton Hall, 1852; Charles S. Contee, 1852; N. H. Shipley, 1852; W. R. S. Gittings, 1853; Frank H. Stockett, 1856; Dr. Howard M. Duvall, 1859; Nicholas H. Green, 1859; William D. Stewart, 1864; William Mayo, 1872; James Boyle, 1872.
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