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Here.Dr. Worthington organized the first medical school in the Province. This embryo-medical college still stands.
Dr. Worthington acquired adjoining property and settled his sons upon it. His first wife was Mary Dorsey (of Amos). Their son and successor, Dr. Thomas C. Worthington, adjoined him on the north, and married a daughter of Ralph and Harriet (Warfield) Dorsey.
His patriarchal beard, handsome form and courtly manners are well remembered and give us a picture of those founders of many brilliant pages of Maryland history. Joshua Warfield Baxley holds his home. Nicholas Dorsey Worthington adjoined him on the north. His property is now owned by Ex-Sheriff James Hobbs. Charles Griffith Worthington, Jr., married Kate Stewart, daughter of Dr. Thomas Stewart, the surveyor, who built her a large brick house upon his estate. Mr. Harding has made a beautiful home here.
Brice Worthington, the bachelor, inherited "White Hall" upon the Patuxent, adjoining "Montpelier." This house has a history of two centuries and it still stands. It is a rough-cast brick, now show- ing its age. Five generations of Worthingtons are buried in its hill cemetery. By the light that comes from our Rent Rolls, its history goes back one century more. It stands upon a part of "Wincopin Neck." This was a joint survey by Benjamin and Richard Warfield, brothers.
It was heired by Mrs. Elizabeth Ridgely and by Alexander Warfield (of Richard).
The latter put his son Rezin and Honor (Howard) Warfield upon it. It came to their daughter Ann, wife of Major Richard Lawrence, who was known as "Major Lawrence, of White Hall."
It was from this "White Hall" Mrs. Rezin Warfield went out as the bride of her husband's cousin, John Davidge, to hand down her two celebrated sons, Dr. John and Henry Davidge, and afterward to die the widow of two more husbands.
" White Hall" finally passed to Dr. Worthington and his son Brice, and from Brice Worthington to his nephew, Dr. William Henry Worthington, a student of the first medical college, just in sight. Dr. William H. Worthington married Mary Ann Jones Dorsey, daughter of Ralph and Harriet (Warfield) Dorsey and left Mrs. Galena Hodges, of Ellicott's City. Achsah Worthington, his only sister, married Rinaldo (Warfield) Dorsey. Their son is Joshua Warfield Dorsey, of Ellicott City, who holds a beautiful and commanding estate adjoining "White Hall." His present wife is a daughter of Dr. Worthington by his last wife, Miss Cooke.
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THE BURGESS FAMILY OF HOWARD.
The four brothers whose descendants make up a history of Howard were: John, West, Joseph and Caleb Burgess, sons of John and Matilda (Sparrow) Burgess, of South River.
Captain John led a company of militia. In April, 1776, Major Henry Ridgely and others protested against the officers made by the Company under command of Captain John Burgess, and it was re- solved by the Council that they be rejected and commissions be made out of those elected by the people on the 9th of September last. viz., John Burgess, Captain; Davidge Warfield, First Lieutenant; Basil Burgess, Second Lieutenant, and William Simpson, Ensign. Captain John Burgess was also one of the justices of Upper Anne Arundel, and in 1778 was appointed Sheriff in the place of William Harwood. Captain Burgess was a brother-in-law of Colonel Thomas Dorsey, having married Sarah Dorsey, of Basil and Sarah (Worthington) Dorsey. Issue, Basil, John, Achsah and Sarah Burgess.
Basil became an officer in his father's company and later joined the Continental Army. He was a surveyor. He bought Edward Hall's interest in "Warfield's Range." John Burgess removed to Frederick County.
West Burgess, brother of Captain John and Joseph, resided on the Severn, near Round Bay. He married Elizabeth Warfield, of Alexander and Thomasin (Worthington) of "Warfield's Range."
His brother, Caleb Burgess was Ensign in the Continental Army. He married Deborah, daughter of Alexander and Thomasin Warfield.
The descendants of these two brothers are named in the will of Alexander Warfield, of Frederick County, the bachelor brother of their wives.
"To my brother Brice Warfield, I leave a farm for life; to Rachel Burgess, wife of West Burgess and daughter of Brice, a legacy. To Matilda Simpson, wife of Joshua; To Matilda Spurrier and to to the daughters of my brother, John Worthington Warfield, viz .: Araminta, Ann and Sarah, similar legacies; To Samuel Burgess of West, my interest in "Warfield's Range."
"To Zadoc Warfield of Brice and to John Burgess of Caleb, my lands in New York with improvements lately made by Thomas Edmondston. To Arnold and Alexander Warfield, sons of brother John W. Warfield, the land I own in New York. To Caleb of Caleb Burgess, land bought of John Wampler. To Samuel, of Caleb, to Surrat D. Warfield of brother Brice, and to Alexander Burgess of Caleb, the remaining parts of my estate in Frederick County, to be divided by them."
West and Samuel Burgess held parts of "Warfield's Range;" they sold to Dr. Charles G. Worthington. Captain Joseph Burgess will be found at Triadelphia.
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SENATOR ARTHUR PUE GORMAN OF "FAIRVIEW."
Five miles northwest of Laurel, upon a nicely graveled road, made and kept yearly in repair by Senator Gorman, upon a ridge that commands an extensive view of a beautiful landscape, is the model farm of Maryland.
The present building stands upon the same site as the original, which was erected after the war and was burned several years ago.
The house stands upon a survey of 1686. "Fairview" farm embraces 500 acres of "Warfield's Range." The barren fields left by the old tobacco growers, by liberal dressings of lime and manure, aided by clover, are, to-day, producing corn, wheat and grass equal in quality and quantity to the limestone lands of Frederick County. Not a vestige can be seen of the old tobacco houses of the pioneers, but upon "Fairview" are extensive barns, and stables filled with grain, hay and high-grade stock. Over this extensive farm the Senator may frequently be seen on horseback directing its manage- ment. "Fairview" has a verandah from which the entire farm and neighborhood may be seen.
Three hundred yards west is the homestead of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gorman, whose portraits, by Healy, now hang in the drawing- room of Fairview. The artist has represented Mr. Peter Gorman in early manhood, with an intelligent and striking face. His father, John Gorman married Miss McDonald, both of the North of Ireland. They came to Harrisburg, but later removed to Baltimore, where Mr. Peter Gorman was born. The latter in early manhood became the contractor and builder of the first section of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, from Ellicott Mills to Woodstock. Located at Wood- stock, he there met and married Miss Elizabeth Browne, daughter of John Riggs Browne, of "Good Fellowship."
Mrs. Gorman's mother was Sarah Gassaway, daughter of Brice John Gassaway and Dinah Warfield, a sister of Major Charles Alex- ander Warfield. Senator Gorman was born at Woodstock, in 1839.
Upon the completion of his contract Mr. Peter Gorman bought the homestead of Dr. Charles Griffith Worthington, near Savage, and removed there, where his remaining children were born.
They are Mrs. Stephen Gambrill, of Laurel; Mrs. Thomas Marriott, of New York; Calvin Gorman, of Laurel, and William H. Gorman, of Catonsville.
Mr. Peter Gorman was one of Stephen Arnold Douglas' strongest supporters for the Presidency, in 1860, and, like Douglas, when the war came, supported the Union. Upon a trip South upon private business, during the war, Mr. Gorman was arrested and confined in Libby Prison.
The confinement weakened his nervous system, and, before a release could be secured from Governor Letcher, his health broke down. He died soon after his release.
His widow survived him several years.
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Senator Gorman's career is an object lesson worthy of being perpetuated.
The idol of Stephen Arnold Douglas, United States Senator, he was made a page in the Senate. Even then he was a favorite with all who knew him. In 1861, when the war brought a Republican majority, his popularity again secured his retention and even his advancement to Postmaster.
Active in his opposition to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, he lost his position, but through the efforts of Reverdy Johnson, Thomas A. Hendricks and Montgomery Blair, he was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth District. In this appoint- ment several Republican Senators joined in his confirmation. At that time the Fifth District was not only an extensive one, but a difficult one to manage. Its accounts had never been settled up. Yet, Mr. Gorman in six months after the close of his term returned a satisfactory settlement.
In 1869 he was made a member of the House of Delegates and was returned in 1872, when he was made Speaker. Of his first experience in legislating for the still existing oyster interest, Mr. Gorman has given an interesting account.
When Speaker he came down from his chair to advocate an appropriation of $150,000 for the education of the colored people of the State. Appointed a member of the Board of Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, he long remained an active member. When President of the Company, he made it, though pre- viously unprofitable, to return over one million dollars; more than double the amount it had returned in twenty years previous.
In 1875 he was elected to the Maryland Senate to succeed Hon. John Lee Carroll, then nominated for Governor. As a member of that body his influence was always exerted in the development of the State's interest, and upon his individual efforts the Agricultural College was enabled to receive its appropriation. In 1877 he became Chairman of the State Central Committee. His personal popularity, success in organizing men, and in settling complicating interests, pointed him out as a leader able to represent the State in the Senate of the United States.
He was elected in 1882, and at once took a foremost rank as a leader. His force, calmness, cool courage, added to his well-equipped knowledge of men and measures in a critical era succeeding the Civil War, have made Senator Gorman a national leader.
His magnificent fight against, and defeat of, the "Force Bill," has been echoed and re-echoed in every journal of the United States. His splendid management of the New York Campaign, when he telegraphed to the World-"Cleveland is elected and will be inaugu- rated"-sent a thrill of satisfaction through the country.
Though not in sympathy with some of the later issues the Demo- cratic Party was called on to face, Senator Gorman stood facing the storm until his party went down in defeat, and he went out of the Senate-because of that defeat. During the four years of his retire-
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ment all eyes turned to him as the leader of his party. In answer to the unanimous voice, he entered upon the State Campaign, was again successful, and in turn was honored by every Democratic vote of both houses of the Legislature as the next United States Senator from Maryland.
Senator Gorman took his seat at the Special Session, and at once held his former position as Democratic leader. His name had been prominently mentioned for the nomination upon the Democratic platform for the Presidency, but in throwing his influence to the support of Judge Parker, he was almost unanimously urged as Chairman of the Campaign Committee.
This honor he declined and urged a younger man for the arduous work.
Mr. Gorman was married in 1867, to Mrs. Hannah Donagan Swartz, of Reading, Pennsylvania. He has six children. His only son, Colonel Arthur P. Gorman, Jr., is an attorney, at present State Senator from Howard. His wife is Grace, daughter of James L. Norris, of Washington, D. C.
Senator Gorman's daughters are Mrs. Richard A. Johnson, Mrs. William J. Lambert, of Washington; Mrs. Stephen Gambrill, Jr., of London; Mrs. Ralph Hills and Miss Ada Gorman, of Fairview.
GAMBRILL.
The will of Augustine Gambrill, of 1774, is the earliest one on record at Annapolis.
To his sons, Augustine and Stevens, he left "Friendship" and " What You Please." Augustine was to hold the homestead. To these same two sons he left, also, a tract upon the Magothy, called "Young's Success." To his wife, Comfort, all of his personal estate, which at her death was to descend to his nine children, viz., William, Augustine, Benjamin, Stevens, Ann, Sarah, Martha and Comfort. To his daughters, in addition, he left several negroes. John Marriott and John Sewell were witnesses.
The will of John Marriott, of 1716, names his daughter, Ann Gambrill. This shows the family there much earlier than the above will. The will of Augustine Marriott, son of John, of 1716 pro- bated 1729, shows a Joshua Gambrill as a witness and in 1791, Joshua Gambrill sold "Owen's Range" to Stevens Gambrill.
About the same time, Richard Gambrill bought of Richard and Sarah Marriott several tracts near Carroll's Manor.
In 1798 William, Mary, Augustine and John Gambrill sold their interest in their homestead on the Magothy.
In 1804 John and Elizabeth Gambrill sold to Mr. Ashley " Home- wood's Forest," on Bodkin Creek.
In 1805 Joseph and Augustine Gambrill, sons of Benjamin, sold " Howard's Pasture" to Charles Waters.
In 1807 Augustine Gambrill sold to Richard Gambrill a tract called "Worthington." That same year, Lydia and Susannah Gambrill, daughters of Augustine Gambrill, granted to their brother
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Augustine two tracts, "Friendship" and "What You Please." Richard Gambrill bought of Richard Warfield Jones "Lancaster Plains," willed him by Richard Warfield.
The following deed gives a further history of the family. Augus- tine Gambrill sold to Samuel Briant certain lands called, "Young's Success," held by Augustine Gambrill, who, dying in 1774, left it to his two sons, Augustine and Stevens, as tenants in common. About 1789 Augustine Gambrill died and by his will devised it to his son William, who possessed in common with Stevens Gambrill.
In 1803 William sold his part to his brother Augustine, who now sells to Samuel Briant his undivided part in 1812.
In 1805 Samuel Ridout granted Augustine Gambrill, according to a warrant of re-survey, several tracts, viz., "Wyatt's Hill," "Wyatt's Ridge," "Crouchfield," part of "Providence," now named " Gambrill's Purchase." The deed covers six pages of the record and the price was quite large. Augustine Gambrill married the widow of Captain Harry Baldwin. The sons were, Stephen and Charles.
The will of his father, Augustine, probated 1790, reads-"To sons Richard and Augustine, my dwelling and lands "Friendship" and "What You Please." To daughters Lydia, Susannah, Eliza, Margaret and Sarah the right of living in the houses in common with my sons Augustine, Richard and William." Witnesses, Lancelot Warfield, John Sappington and William Woodward. The will of Stevens Gambrill left all of his property to his nephew Stevens of Augustine and made the same his executor. Lancelot Warfield, Caleb Sappington and Richard Gambrill were witnesses, in 1808.
Mr. Richard Gambrill, of Columbia, Howard County, married Miss Iglehart. Their sons have all become prominent in the history of Maryland. The Gambrill Flour Mills of Baltimore, Howard and Frederick County were founded by these sons.
Mr. Stephen Gambrill, of Laurel, was formerly President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. He married Kate, oldest daughter of Mr. Peter Gorman and Elizabeth Browne, his wife. She is a sister of Senator Gorman. They have two sons in the U. S. A., viz., George Thomas and Major William Gorman Gambrill, of the Philip- pines. They have written some interesting letters of devotion to parents and country. Stephen Warfield Gambrill married a daughter of Senator Gorman. He is the London representative of the Fidelity and Deposit Company, of Baltimore, of which Governor Edwin Warfield is President.
Arthur Pue Gambrill and his sister, Catherine Gassaway Gambrill, are with Mr. and Mrs. Gambrill in their handsome home in Laurel.
VENISON PARK.
Upon the east and south of "Warfield's Range," forming now a part of Savage Factory and extending west along Hammonds Great Branch, is the now almost forgotten tract of thirteen hundred and thirty-six acres of "Venison Park," marked out by Alexander and John Warfield. According to the arrangement of these brothers,
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some four hundred acres of this tract were surveyed for the two younger sons of John and the remainder for the two sons of Alex- ander.
The will of the latter, in 1740, shows his son Alexander, upon the " eastern limits of Warfield's Range," and extending to the mill site of Savage. About 1750 Alexander Warfield sold out his interest to his cousin Alexander (of John) and left no records at Annapolis.
Absolute Warfield, his brother, and executor of his father, sold another portion of Venison Park, to Thomas Sappington, who resur- veyed it into "Sappington Sweep."
As executor of his father he completed the deeds for 200 acres each to Edward and Philip Warfield, younger sons of John. These tracts were west of "Sappington Sweep."
Absolute Warfield appears as a witness to several wills of his neighbors as late as 1777. He remained a bachelor.
The following interesting record from Mr. Frank Warfield, of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, seems to point to a descendant of the above Alexander Warfield. I do not know where else to place him: "My father Alexander Warfield was born in Maryiand, in 1820, and died in San Diego, California, in 1893. He had a sister Adaline. He went to Kentucky when young; was afterwards President of a College in Georgia; was next in Missouri, and, in 1860, was in Cali- fornia as a mining expert. My mother was a descendant of John Quincy Adams. They were married in Missouri. Upon his return from California, in 1869, I was old enough to know him. He returned to Mexico to develop a silver mine.
"In 1884, after having made and lost three fortunes, with my mother and sister, he again went to the Pacific Coast, never to return.
" All I know of that noble man was gained while I was only a boy. I feel a just pride in being his son, for he was all that goes to make a man, and in all my travels I have found none quite equal to him. My oldest sister, Hattie A., married W. B. Ross, of Nash- ville, Tennessee. My youngest sister remains single."
The heirs of Alexander and Thompsy (Worthington) Warfield were, Thomas, the bachelor, of "Warfields Range;" John Worthing- ton Warfield and Brice, twin brothers, of "Venison Park" and joint owners of the mill; Alexander Warfield, Jr., of "Venison Park" and three daughters.
Mrs. Alexander Warfield married again Francis Simpson, of Frederick County, who bought out the entire interests of the Warfield heirs. John Worthington Warfield then bought of Edward Dorsey's heirs, "Thomas' Lot," near Dayton. He there married Susannah Ridgely, who left a son Arnold Warfield, who married Margaret Browning and removed to Clifton Springs, New York, upon lands granted him by his uncle Alexander.
Arnold Warfield left several descendants in New York. Some of these have recently removed to Florida. One of them was the late Alexander Warfield Bradford, author of several legal works.
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John Worthington Warfield left his Dayton farm to his brother Brice and removed to the Big Seneca, where he accumulated a large estate. He married again, Mary Holland of Amos, and had John Holland Warfield, who married Mary, daughter of Amos Warfield, and lived at Scaggs' Corner. Their son was Lorenzo Warfield, of Glenelg, whose old hostelry still stands.
Alexander Warfield, of John Worthington, inherited the Seneca homestead; married Mary Harwood, whose mother was Elizabeth Stockett of Thomas and Mary Noble, daughter of Captain Thomas and Mary Wells, whose father was Major Richard Wells of the Puritan Council. Mrs. Stockett became the wife of George Yates, the surveyor, and had issue, George Yates, husband of Rachel Warfield, of "Warfield's Range."
Mary Warfield, of Alexander and Mary, married Ephraim Creager, of Frederick County. Issue, Frank, George, Manilia Markey, Alcinda Savidge, Caroline Broadbent, Major Noble Creager, U. S. A., and Miss Virginia Creager, of Baltimore.
Caroline (of Alexander and Mary) married William Bantz. Their daughter was the late wife of Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, Vice-Presidential candidate.
John A. Warfield (of Alexander and Mary) married his cousin Henrietta, of Surrat D. Warfield. Their heirs are living in Frederick County.
Brice Warfield (of Alexander and Thompsey) married Sarah Dickerson and lived near Dayton. He had two sons and several daughters, all legatees of his bachelor brother, Alexander Warfield, of Unionville. Surrat Dickerson Warfield (of Brice) was the chief heir and executor of his uncle Alexander, who in addition to several farms in Frederick County, held a large and undeveloped tract at Clifton Springs, New York, which he left to his Warfield and Burgess nephews.
Alexander Warfield's will also left legacies to the daughters of his brother John Worthington Warfield.
Surrat Dickerson Warfield inherited the estate near Union- ville, and became State Senator from Frederick County. His descend- ants 'are Dr. Brown Warfield, of Philadelphia; Surrat R. Warfield, and his sons, Guy and Frank Brown Warfield, of Baltimore.
The daughters of Alexander and Thompsey were wives of Caleb Burgess and of West Burgess, both brothers of Captain John and Captain Joseph Burgess, all engaged in the Revolution. Their heirs held a portion of "Warfield's Range." They sold it to Dr. Charles Griffith Worthington. It is now the handsome estate of Senator Gorman.
GUILFORD.
Age, hoary and neglected sat many years upon the old stone houses of Guilford, but, built of the enduring granite found there, they will stand for centuries. The site of the place is upon " Wincopin Neck." Here Alexander Warfield and Mrs. Elizabeth Ridgely had
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a joint mill in 1750. It is upon the North branch of the Patuxent, to which the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has now built a connecting road for the shipment of the output of the newly-organ- ized Granite Company of Baltimore. Guilford has been renovated. Its neglected buildings have been restored. Its granite is acknowl- edged to be of the first order, and the only need was shipping facilities, which have been furnished. A macadamized road connects it with Savage Factory, and over this highway Mr. Penny's six-horse team did much of the delivery for market.
Charles Greenberry Ridgely, sixth son of Colonel Henry and Elizabeth (Warfield) Ridgely, inherited "Huntington Quarter" and "Harry's Lot," the most eastern division of the estate. He lived at the homestead, upon the hill east of Guilford. He was a member of the vestry of Queen Caroline Parish and married Sarah, oldest daughter of Rev. James Macgill, Rector.
Upon his estate stands, to-day, the Pattison homestead, the Com- modore Barney house and the Cronmiller house. Charles Green- berry Ridgely, Jr., as executor of the estate, sold to Thomas Coale the property known as the Barney place. It was inherited by Miss Coale, the second wife of Commodore Barney. Archibald G. Ridgely, brother of the executor, his sisters Elizabeth, Ann, Mary received the home place.
Ann-Nicholas Griffith, youngest son of Colonel Henry and Sarah (Warfield) Griffith and became the mother of Sarah (Warfield) Griffith, wife of Amos Brown and mother of Colonel Ridgely Brown C. S. A.
Henrietta Griffith-William Penniman; Thomas Griffith- Elizabeth Griffith, daughter of Colonel Lyde. Their four sons, Captain Thomas, David, Festus and Frank Griffith were in the Confederate Army.
The homestead "Harry's Lot" descended to Archibald G. Ridgely, whose tombstone, now broken by the side of a hay barrack on the Pattison estate, reads:
"To my father, Archibald G. Ridgely; died November 21st, 1806."
His will reads: "To my daughter Emily, and unborn child, all my estate, but if the one born and the other unborn, should die, then I give to my wife all my estate to descend to Nicholas Ridgely Griffith, son of my sister Nancy, but not to deprive my wife of her third. Witnesses Richard Ridgely, John H. Dorsey and G. Watkins."
Emily Ridgely (of Archibald married Major Spedden, U. S. A., and held the homestead. By them it was sold to the Pattisons.
Close by this old family burying-ground, upon the edge of the wood upon the road to Savage, is an old brick and frame house, once the home of Commodore Barney. It is now Dr. Linthicum's. Still nearer Savage is another house of the family of Charles Greenberry Ridgely. It was known as the Cronmiller place.
This property is upon a commanding ridge overlooking the romantic centres of Savage, Guilford and Annapolis Junction.
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