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5. Catherine A. Riggs (of Elisha)-Humphrey Dorsey-issue, Stephen Boone, Sarah, Evie, Rachel, Mary, Hester, Laura and William Thomas Dorsey.
FAMILY OF GEORGE SMITH RIGGS (OF GEO. W.) AND CAROLINE M. FIELD:
1. George Field, a retired surveyor.
2. Mary, married Chas. Hunt, of New York.
FAMILY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON RIGGS (OF ELISHA) AND JANET SHEDDEN:
1. Alice Lawrason, born July 7, 1841.
2. Katharine Shedden, born December 15, 1842, married 1872, Louis de Geofroy, of the French Diplomatic Service, died in Washington, D. C., February 7, 1881, leaving two sons.
3. Cecelia Dowdall, born June 20, 1844, married October 2, 1867, Henry Howard, of Her Britannic Majesty's Diplomatic Service, son of Sir Henry Howard, G. C. B.
4. Janet Madeline, born August 16, 1845, died January 30, 1861.
5. Mary Griffith, born March 15, 1848, died August 2, 1849.
6. George Shedden, born December 25, 1849, died May 20, 1856.
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7. Elisha Francis, born October 2, 1851, married February 19, 1879, Medora, daughter of James S. Thayer, of New York City, and Medora, his wife (who was widow of Samuel James Riggs, of Romulus). He was a member of the firm of Riggs & Co. from 1876 to its dissolution in 1896, and has (1902) two sons.
8. Jane Agnes, born October 28, 1853.
9. Thomas Lawrason, born April 11, 1858, became a member of the firm of Riggs & Co., September 1, 1881, died unmarried, at Washington, January 19, 1888.
FAMILY OF LAWRASON RIGGS (OF ELISHA) AND FRANCES CLAPP:
1. Benjamin Clapp, born February 16, 1844, married June 1, 1874, Rebecca Fox. He died April 18, 1883, at Saranac Lake, N. Y., leaving issue.
2. Alice Lawrason, born July 10, 1846; married December 2, 1873, Rig- gin Buckler, M. D., of Baltimore, and has issue.
3. George Washington, born December 22, 1848; married October 8, 1879, Catharine Cheeseman, of New York, and has issue.
FAMILY OF LAWRASON RIGGS AND MARY BRIGHT.
4. Mary Bright, born January 5, 1860, died April 7, 1862.
5. Lawrason, born October 17, 1861. Lives in Baltimore, is Brigadier- General of Maryland National Guard.
6. Bright, born March 26 and died November 11, 1863.
7. William Pickersgill, born August 11, 1864, in New York.
8. Clinton Levering, born September 13, 1866, in New York; married October 23, 1894, Mary Kennedy Cromwell; lives in Baltimore; now Adjutant-General under Governor Warfield.
9. Jesse Bright, born February 3, 1870, in Baltimore, married October 5, 1893, Charlotte Morris Symington, and has issue.
10. Alfred Randolph, born April 19, 1871, in Baltimore.
11. Francis Graham, - born November 29, 1872 in Baltimore.
12. Henry Griffith,
13. Thomas Dudley, born January 28, 1875, in Baltimore; married.
SNOWDEN.
A tradition exists that Major Richard Snowden, of Wales, who held a commission under Cromwell, was our immigrant.
In 1675 Major John Welsh, husband of Mrs. Roger Grosse, and executor of the Grosse estate, summoned the heirs to a settlement. Two of them were Richard Snowden and Elizabeth, his wife, "lately called Elizabeth Grosse." In 1679 Richard Snowden bought of George Yate a tract of iron-ore land on South River. In 1686 he was granted "Robin Hoods Forest," a tract of 10,500 acres: in 1688 he bought lands of William Parker, near West River. He was living in 1704.
Richard Snowden, Jr., was a partner with his cousin, Captain John Welsh, as iron merchants, and in 1733 was executor of Captain Welsh. He was married before 1691, to Mary, daughter of Thomas Linthicum. In 1717, Richard and Mary Snowden signed the second marriage certificate of their son Richard, whose first wife was Eliza- beth Coale, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Sparrow) Coale. By her he had Elizabeth, wife of John Thomas; Mary, wife of Samuel Thomas (sons of Samuel and Mary [Hutchins] Thomas), and Deborah Snowden, the Quakeress wife of James Brooke. They removed to "Snowden's Manor" at Sandy Spring in 1728.
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Richard Snowden, the third, married his second wife in 1717. She was Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Hutchins) Thomas and a sister of his sons-in-law, John and Samuel Thomas.
Thomas Snowden, of Richard and Eliza (Thomas) Snowden, born 1722-Mary Wright, daughter of Henry and his wife, Elizabeth Sprigg, daughter of Colonel Edward Sprigg .- Richard Snowden, of Thomas and Mary Wright, brother of Major Thomas Snowden, of Montpelier, and of Samuel and John, married Elizabeth Rutland, daughter of Thomas. She brought to his estate "Rutland's Purchase," which took in most of the land from Laurel to Annapolis Junction. His homestead was "Fairlands." His sole heiress, upon the death of her parents, resided at "Montpelier" and married John Chew Thomas, member of Congress when President Jefferson was elected over Aaron Burr.
Ann Snowden became the wife of Henry Wright Crabb, father of General Jeremiah Crabb; Margaret Snowden married John Contee.
Samuel Snowden built the large brick house, still standing deserted near Montpelier, and "Birmingham" now in ruins.
This manor-house, built in 1690, was heired by John Snowden; it stood just above the Snowden forge of the Patuxent. Its huge fireplaces, its walls of brick and shingles, its portico looking out upon a semi-circle of barns for stock and tobacco; its graveyard with its huge slabs, headstones and monuments are all well remembered by the author. This was the later centre of a family who held not only the whole area surrounding Laurel, but were heirs of an estate which commenced on South River and extended beyond Sandy Spring, a distance of fifty miles.
In sight of it, just across the river in Prince George, is still to be seen a magnificent type of our colonial manor houses. It is "Montpelier," of the Snowdens, built by Major Thomas Snowden for his bride, Ann Ridgely, who named it for her birthplace, "Mont- pelier," of Anne Arundel.
This house stands but a short distance southeast of Laurel, upon the Great Northern and Southern Post Road, which connected Annapolis and Washington. Upon this road coaches ran between the two cities. Amid surrounding woodland it looms up as a relic of the past to teach us how our colonial progenitors lived. Before its door the family coach was habitually drawn up for the daily morning ride.
Within a hospitable reception ever awaited weary travelers. It was the stopping place of General Washington on his trips from Mt. Vernon to Annapolis. The bed upon which he rested is still in possession of a descendant daughter, now of Sandy Spring. "Mont- pelier" was last held by the Misses Jenkins, of Laurel. When I saw it last its doors were closed, its halls were silent, its well-graveled walks and driveways were lined by closely cropped box-wood; its flower beds were encircled by boxwood; its hand-carved doorways and pillars, its extended wings and corniced gables, all speak of the life of ease and comfort when Major Thomas and Ann (Ridgely) Snowden held this beautiful home. In a cedar grove in the rear,
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unprotected and unmarked, now lie the remains of the master and mistress of "Montpelier" in Prince George County. "Montpelier" has lately passed to Mr. Pendleton, the author, who will make it his winter home.
From Thomas and Mary Wright came Major Thomas Snowden, of "Montpelier." He took his bride, Ann Ridgely, the heiress-daugh- ter of Colonel Henry and Ann Dorsey,-issue Richard, of "Oakland," now known as "Contees." His wife, Eliza, daughter of Major Charles Alexander Warfield, was therefore his first cousin, and after her death he married her sister, Louisa Victoria Warfield (no issue).
Ann Louisa Snowden, the oldest daughter-John Contee and inherited the extensive homestead, which still stands upon an eminence at Contee station, into which Major Richard Contee after- ward took his bride, Anna Bolling. They still hold it. Thomas Snowden (of Richard)-Ann Rebecca Nicholls, issue. Sarah Rebecca -Colonel Charles Marshall, of Baltimore. Caroline Eliza (of Richard) -Hon. Albert Fairfax. Issue-the late Lord John Contee Fairfax, of "Northampton," Prince George County. Emily Roseville (of Rich- ard)-Colonel Timothy P. Andrews, U. S. A., brevetted Brigadier- General at Chapultepec. Issue, the late Colonel Richard Snowden Andrews, C. S. A., Civil Engineer of Baltimore. Richard Nicholas (of Richard)-Elizabeth Ridgely Warfield (of Dr. Gustavus of "Long- wood"). Issue, Gustavus Warfield, Richard, George, Thomas, Evan Warfield, Mary, Thomas and Elizabeth Warfield Snowden-William Dorsey, grandson of Colonel Richard.
Nicholas (of Major Thomas, of "Montpelier")-Elizabeth Warfield Thomas (of Samuel and Annie Warfield Thomas, of " Roxbury."
Their residence was " Avondale," now the handsome Ober home- stead, near Laurel. Ann Elizabeth-Francis M. Hall; 2nd, Charles Hill Thomas, Jr., died at Magnolia, Florida; Louisa-Colonel Horace Capron, who built the Laurel Manufacturing Mills; a monument stands over her grave at "Birmingham;" Julia Maria-Dr. Theodore Jenkins, of Baltimore. Issue, Theodore, killed at Cedar Mountain, 1862; Elizabeth Snowden, Louis, William, Francis Zavier, Mary Eliza, Ann Louisa, Arthur Jenkins; Adelaide Snowden-W. W. W. Bowie; Edward-Mary Thomas Warfield, of Longwood; Dr. DeWilton-Emma C. Capron; Henry-Mary C. Cowman; Eliza entered Georgetown Convent; Emily Roseville-Charles C. Hill- issue, Ann Elizabeth, Charles; Ann, Ida, Edward, Snowden, Emily Roseville, Edith and Albert.
From this line comes Colonel Nicholas Hill, formerly the popular proprietor of the "Carrollton Hotel and Merchants Club," of Balti- more. Nicholas-Henrietta Stabler; issue, Emily Roseville-Gerard Hopkins; Marion, Lucy, Helen, Francis, Mary. Dr. Arthur Monteith-first, Ella Snowden (of Thomas); second, Mary Vaux, of Virginia. He was a surgeon in C. S. A., and was drowned. His home, afterward the tavern at Scaggs Corner, he named "Herring Bone Hall."
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Thomas Snowden (of Major Thomas and Ann) lived a bachelor at Summerville, the brick house at Annapolis Junction, a portion of his mother's inheritance.
Mary (of Major Thomas and Ann)-Colonel John Carlisle Herbert, son of William, who married a daughter of John and Sarah (Fairfax) Carlisle, of Virginia. Colonel Herbert built another magnificent homestead near Beltsville, the white walls of which may be seen from the verandah upon which this is written. Issue, Dr. Thomas Snowden Herbert, Ann Caroline-Hon. Henry Fairfax; Alfred, Professor and Lieutenant in Florida wars. Sarah-Captain Archibald Fairfax, U. S. N .; William Fairfax, Emma-Rev. W. Boynton; Mary Virginia-Captain Thomas T. Hunter, U. S. N .; Julia Eugenia; Lucinda-John Eversfield; Eliza, Edward-Mary H. Barrett. Dr. Thomas Snowden Herbert-first, Camilla Ham- mond (of Denton); second, Elizabeth Duer, (with no issue), issue of Camilla-John Carlisle Herbert: General James R. Herbert, C. S. A., Colonel of Fifth Regiment, Commanding General of Militia and Police Commissioner. He was at the front at the first attack upon Gettysburg and was there wounded. He married Elizabeth Coleman, daughter of Colonel Mark Alexander, of Virginia. His only son died in the late war with Cuba. General Herbert held the last tract of the immense Herbert estate, now all passed from the name. "Birmingham" descended to the youngest son.
John Snowden, of " Birmingham"-Rachel, daughter of Gerard and Mary (Hall) Hopkins. Issue, Rachel-Judge John S. Tyson; Rezin Hammond-Margaret McFadden; they handed down "Birming- ham" to the late William Snowden-Adelaide Warfield, youngest daughter of Dr. Gustavus and Mary (Thomas) Warfield, of "Long- wood." Issue, Julius, of New York; Louisa Victoria, Marie Antio- nette, Adelaide Warfield, Sophia Carroll, Eugenia; John (of Rezin Hammond)-Sarah E. Hopkins; issue, Mrs. Charles H. Stanley, of Laurel, and John Snowden Jr., former Commissioner, of Prince George's County.
SAVAGE FACTORY.
Hidden from view by surrounding hills, back from the old Wash- ington road, yet now reaching out to it, is a little manufacturing centre, a perfect model of one-man enterprise. Its factory buildings, its neat brick houses, all recently painted, its stores and private dwellings all bear evidence that a master hand rules the town; that revelry and dissipation have no home there; that industry and thrift there meet. Upon one of its hills stands the proprietor's residence, stately, yet modest, overlooking the whole village. Off to the south looms up an attractive, commodious house of a former manager of the Savage Factory, who, seeing that war was inevitable, bought largely of southern cotton, which returned him alone some eighty thousand dollars upon his investment.
Savage Factory was chartered in 1812 by three Williams' brothers. They bought parts of several adjacent tracts, viz., "War-
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field's Range," "Venison Park," "Harry's Lot," "Whites Contriv- ance" and "Rich Level," but there was a mill there long before that. Alexander Warfield (of John) built a mill upon "Venison Park," near the great falls in 1750. He left it to his sons, John Worthington and Brice Warfield. They failed to see the coming manufacturing opportunity and sold it to their father-in-law, Francis Simpson. Savage is now owned by the Baldwin Company, chief of which was the late William Henry Baldwin, Jr., the successful merchant of Baltimore, whose record has already been recorded in Anne Arundel.
"WARFIELD'S RANGE."
Five miles north of Laurel, extending from Savage Factory two miles west, is this historic range, surveyed more than two centuries ago. Then it was a frontier outpost, approached only by the Indian trail which led from Annapolis.
One generation later this was the center of pioneer settlers engaged in growing a most excellent grade of tobacco. Elk Ridge Landing was its shipping port. Near the Range passed the Great Northern and Southern Post Road, and along that route was the popular line of settlement.
The magnificent water-powers of the two branches of the Patux- ent were soon to be utilized. Laurel, Guilford and Savage were to rival the individual mills of the pioneers, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railway was soon to take up the tobacco output which had before found its market over the rolling roads of the pioneers.
Standing, to-day, upon the many commanding points of "War- field's Range," and looking up and down the varying valleys of the Patuxent, the wisdom of those pioneers becomes apparent, but of that sturdy host of settlers, all allied by matrimonial ties, only silent graveyards, neglected and unmarked, near the old remaining relics of their forest homes, are left to us. In their places, and upon their plantations, a new people have arisen.
Suburban homes, fine roadways, large barns and prolific grass and grain fields succeed their tobacco barns and cabin homes.
Not only have these pioneers departed, but even their descend- ants. The great west-bound movement, which they inaugurated, has carried them still further west, in many cases even beyond the bounds of the state.
Amid all the political upheavals of the first century of the history of the Province, Richard Warfield had great faith in agricul- ture as the best means to enhance the prosperity of his children.
In his will of 1703 he left 280 acres of the "Range" to his youngest son, Benjamin, and 150 acres to his daughter Rachel Yates. In 1704 his sons and executors, John, Richard, Alexander and Benjamin, resurveyed this tract and took up a large body of land adjoining it. John and Alexander took up "Venison Park" on the south and Richard and Benjamin surveyed "Wincopin Neck"
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and " Warfield's Contrivance" on the north. None of these brothers occupied these ranges. The real settlers were their sons.
About 1725, John Warfield's three sons, John, Benjamin and Alexander, were granted through their eldest brother, Richard, heir- at-law, adjoining tracts upon "Warfield's Range."
John settled upon what is known as the Marriott place, upon which is the old family burial-ground. Benjamin adjoined him on the north and west. Alexander adjoined him on the north and east. It was later known as the Jerome Berry place, but now in possession of Senator Gorman. One hundred and fifty acres of the "Range" were assigned to Eleanor (Warfield) Dorsey. It descended to her son, Basil Dorsey, who conveyed it to Thomas Warfield, of Alex- ander. It was later known as the homestead of Dr. Charles Griffith Worthington, and still later, the home of Mr. Peter Gorman. North of this tract, and embracing the site of Senator Gorman's "Fair- view," is the original grant to Benjamin Warfield, youngest son of the first surveyor. It descended to his son Joshua, whose executor, Thomas Warfield, conveyed it to John Warfield, thence to Joshua Warfield, his brother, who lived in a quaint old house which still stands upon it. It descended to "Gentleman John," of Joshua, the last of his line, and after his death was sold to Mr. Bentley and to Senator Gorman. Still further north is the original grant of Rachel Yates, daughter of Richard Warfield. After her death in 1709, her husband, George Yates, sold it to John Warfield (of John). This is the most northern survey of the Range. Upon it stands the home- stead of the late Dr. Thomas C. Worthington, now owned by Joshua Warfield Baxley, a descendant of the original surveyor. Richard Warfield (of John) deeded the remainder of the Range to his sons, John and Seth Warfield. John later exchanged with Edward Hall, of Frederick County. The latter sold to Basil Burgess, who sold to William Sellman. This property was the Benjamin Dorsey home- stead.
Seth Warfield (of Richard) held, through his descendants, a large part of the western border of the Range, which has only recently passed from the Warfield name. The last owner was Randolph Ridgely Warfield, attorney of Baltimore. Seth's five sons surveyed "Warfield Forest," near Lisbon, Howard County. His youngest son, Amos, held the homestead and built the substantial stone house which still stands. Adjoining him on the west and south, across Hammond's Great Branch, stretches out the thirteen hundred acres of "Venison Park," upon which were located the two younger sons of John Warfield, the first. They were Edward and Philip Warfield. The latter sold his inheritance to Seth Warfield and removed to the neighborhood of Clarksville. Edward Warfield's estate descended to his son James, whose heirs all removed to Tennessee. This tract became a part of Dr. Charles Worthington's estate.
Still further south and leading to Laurel, were the two estates of Alexander and Absolute Warfield, sons of Alexander, third son
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of Richard Warfield. They sold their portion to Thomas Sapping- ton, who resurveyed it into "Sappington Sweep," and all their remaining interest to Alexander Warfield (of John). Alexander (of Alexander) removed to some other State and left no records behind. Absolute Warfield was a witness to several wills as late as 1777. He did not marry.
The Rent Rolls show the peculiar authority of an heir-at-law in the early grants. Every deed of transfer in "Warfield's Range" was given by Richard Warfield (of John), the executor of the estate. Even when new surveys were added, they were conveyed through him. Just previous to his death, in 1765, he made a systematic survey of the titles of all the heirs and confirmed them. The smallest grants were to his sons, John and Seth Warfield. Benjamin Warfield (of Richard) did not settle upon his, nor did his son. Yet Richard, the executor, in his will of 1765, still further confirms the title by these words. "All my interest in 240 acres of "Warfield's Range" I grant to Joshua Warfield (of Benjamin.)" In his deed to his brothers he records "For the love I bear to my brother, I grant him and his heirs forever all my right in a certain number of acres of Warfield's Range." As a brotherly guardian his example is worthy of being handed down to posterity.
John, Benjamin and Alexander Warfield, of " Warfield's Range," all married cousins. John's wife was Rachel Dorsey, daughter of Joshua and Anne Ridgely. John and Rachel Warfield built the quaint little house still standing on the Marriott place. Their oldest son, Dr. John Warfield settled upon the property north of "Fair- view," now Mr. Bentley's. He took up, also, "Warfield's Addition, " in Upper Howard, which descended to his nephew, Allen Griffith, and to Captain Benjamin Warfield, of "Cherry Grove." He died in 1775, a bachelor, and left his homestead, to his younger brother, Joshua.
Charles Warfield, his brother, settled upon "Fredericksburg." He married Catherine Dorsey, daughter of Captain John and Ann Dorsey, of "Walnut Grove." Their son Charles H. Dorsey, married Mrs. Johnson, mother of William Cost Johnson, member of Congress from Frederick County. Tilghman and Feilder were two bachelor brothers, and "Cousin Kitty Warfield" was not only a proud, intelli- gent maid, but a good lawyer. Their estate is now held by the heirs of the late Horatio Griffith and by Joshua N. Warfield, of Florence.
Joshua Warfield (of John and Rachel) was married twice before twenty-one years old. His first wife was Elizabeth Dorsey, of Thomas and Mary (Warfield) Dorsey, who had one son Thomas John, named for both grandfathers, who married Mrs. Sellman and removed to the neighborhood of Westminster. Joshua Warfield married, second, Mary Ann Jones, daughter of Captain Isaac, of South River. Their sons were Roderick, Warner and "Gentleman John." The latter died in 1860. His tombstone, bearing the inscription "John Warfield of Joshua," stands in the old burial-ground upon the Marriott place. By his side lie his maiden sisters, who preceded him. Roderick
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Warfield married Miss Stockett and removed to Kentucky, leaving a large family recorded in the "Warfield's of Maryland." Warner Warfield removed to "Bagdad," near Sykesville. He married his cousin, Catherine Warfield (of Beale,) and left Marcellus, William Henry and Manelia Warfield, now Mrs. Jenkins, who inherits the homestead.
Marcellus Warfield was a prosperous merchant of Sykesville, and a vestryman of his parish church. He married Miss Lawrence, daughter of Captain John Lawrence, of Frederick County, and left two daughters, Mrs. William Ward and Miss Ella Lawrence Warfield.
William Henry Warfield was a merchant at Laurel, and married Charlotte K., daughter of Dr. Mareen Duvall. He left no issue.
Harriet Warfield of Joshua and Ann, married Ralph Dorsey.
The daughters of John and Rachel (Dorsey) Warfield were Mrs. John Wayman (of Poplar Springs), Mrs. Sarah Griffith and Amelia, a maiden. They heired the homestead, which was later sold by Colonel Lyde Griffith to Jonathan Marriott.
Benjamin, Warfield of "Warfield's Range," married Rebeckah Ridgely, of Judge Nicholas and Sarah (Worthington) Ridgely. He built his cottage upon a commanding plateau, just north of his brother John. Its present owner, Mr. Samuel Hearn, has a picture of it. From its gateway an extensive view reveals a charming land- scape. Surrounding the dwelling is a large grove, on the border of which stands one building over which the storms of many seasons have beaten. Benjamin and Rebeckah Ridgely had four sons, Captain Nicholas Ridgely Warfield, Captain Benjamin, Vachel and Elisha, and one daughter, Mary Ridgely Warfield, the wife of Thomas Dorsey, of Henry and Elizabeth Worthington. Captain Nicholas Ridgely Warfield, the bachelor, survived all his brothers, dying at an advanced age, in 1814. He was a tobacco inspector, of Elk Ridge Landing, and Captain of its militia; he held an extensive estate in both Howard and Montgomery Counties. Just across the road from the homestead was located his brother Vachel, upon a portion of the Range taken up later by his uncle Richard. This was recently the Groscup race-course. Still later, Vachel and his brothers, Benjamin and Elisha, removed to Upper Howard.
Benjamin Warfield Sr., married again Ann White and had one son, Caleb, and two daughters, Mrs. Charles Banks and Mrs. John Lansdale. After his death the homestead was bought by Vachel Yates, a relative. He resided there in 1774, as shown by a note from William Coale to him in 1774. It was found in the old cottage when torn down by Mr. Hearn.
Nicholas Ridgely Warfield, as heir-at-law, in 1810, confirmed the sale to Mr. Thomas Moore. It passed to Mr. Marriott and to Mr. Faire, who mortgaged it to Mr. Mason, and by the late John T. Mason of R. was sold to Mr. Hearn some twenty years ago. He has made it a model farm. The graves of Benjamin and Rebeckah Warfield are in the family ground.
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DR. CHARLES GRIFFITH WORTHINGTON OF "WARFIELD'S RANGE."
Removing from his birthplace in Anne Arundel, Dr. Charles Griffith Worthington (of Thomas) bought of Samuel Burgess and Leonard Sellman their interest in "Warfield's Range."
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