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number of days, but many reverted to Carroll when the conditions of improvement
went unmet, and some interior lots failed to sell. During the ensuing decade and
trough a number of resales, reversions and re-entries the lots were eventually
dispensed.40 ...to be continued.	y

NOTES

, 4 H. & MCH. 540 (Md. 1774); Helms v. Howard, 2 H. &
i; Smith and Purviances v. Maryland, 2 H. & McH. 244 (Md.

>; Cunningham v. Browning, 1 Bland 299 (Md. 1827)1 Giraud's

95      d
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Parceling Out Land

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Lessee v. Hughes, 1 G. & J. 249 (Md. 1829); Dugan v. Baltimore, 5 G. & J. 357 (Md.
1833); Wilson's Lessee v.Inloes, 11 G. &J. 351 (Md. 1840); Casey's Lessee v. Inloes,
1 Gill 430 (Md. 1844); Wilson's Lessee v. Inloes, 6 Gill 121 (Md. 1847); Hammond
v. Inloes, 4 Md. 138 (1853); Peterkin v. Inloes, 4 Md. 175 (1853); Garitee v.
Baltimore, 53 Md. 422 (Md. 1880).

2. John Kilty, The Land-Holder's Assistant (Baltimore: G. Dobbins & Murphy, 1808);
John M'Henry, The Ejectment Law of Maryland (Frederick-town: Herald Press, 1822);
Lewis Mayer, Ground Rents in Maryland (Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald, 1883).

3. J. Thomas Scharf, The Chronicles of Baltimore, (1874; [repr.] 2 vols. Bowie, Md.:
Heritage Books Inc., 1989), 1 :v; J. Thomas Scharf, History of Baltimore City and
County, (1881; [repr.] Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company, 1971).

4. Robert J. Brugger, Maryland, A Middle Temperament: 1634-1980 (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), pp. 3-5.

5. Lewis W. Wilhelm, Local Institutions of Maryland, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University, 1885), pp. 8-13; Mayer, Ground Rents, pp. 9-12.

6. J. Kilty, Land-Holder's Assistant, p. 30; Mayer, Ground Rents, pp. 12-20; Gregory
A. Stiverson, Poverty in a Land of Plenty: Tenancy in Eighteenth Century Maryland
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977), pp. 1-27; Clarence P Gould, The
Land System in Maryland 1720-1765, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1913), passim.

7.  Gould, Land System in Maryland, pp. 16-18.

8. "Baltimore County at one time embraced all of the province lying around the
head of the bay, from the Patapsco river on the west to Chester river on the east,
and included the present counties of Carroll, Harford, Cecil, Baltimore and
probably Kent" (Wilhelm, Local Institutions, p. 374); Scharf, Chronicles, 1:9.

9. Scharf, Chronicles, 1:9-10; Scharf, History, 1:48-50; David Jones, Jones his
Range, 1678: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber 20, folio 8, Maryland
State Archives (hereafter MSA). Alexander Mountney, Mountney' s Neck, 1663:
Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber 5, folio 376, MSA. William
Poultney, Long Island Point, 1671: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber
16, folio 223, MSA. John Copus, Copus Harbour, 1684: Baltimore County Land
Records (Patents) Liber IB & IL No. C, folio 62, MSA.

10. Scharf, History, 1:48-50. Thomas Cole, Cole's Harbour, 1668: Baltimore
County Land Records (Patents) Liber 12, folio 134, MSA.

11. Gould, Land System in Maryland, pp. 9-10, 16, 60-64; M'Henry, Ejectment Law
of Maryland, p. 30; Mayer, Ground Rents, pp. 33-35; Scharf, Chronicles, 1:10; Scharf,
History, p. 49. Compare David Jones, Jones his Range, 1678: Baltimore County
Land Records (Patents) Liber 20, folio 8, MSA with Thomas Cole, Cole's Harbour,
1668: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber 12, folio 134, MSA.

12. Edward Lunn, Lunns Lott, 1673: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents)
Liber 17, folio 189, MSA. John Howard, Timberneck, 1668: Baltimore County
Land Records (Patents) Liber 11, folio 32, MSA.

13. Scharf, History, 1:50. David Poole, Upton Court, 1668: Baltimore County
Land Records (Patents) Liber 14, folio 121, MSA. David Williams, David's Fancy,
1672: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber 19, folios 380, 550, MSA.