174 MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE 49. Scharf, Chronicles, 1:36-37; Harrison, Thomas, biofile 00653, MSASC 1138- 001-610, Maryland State Archives; Charles Carroll of Annapolis to Thomas Har- rison, Records of the Provincial Court (Deeds) Liber El no. 8, folio 293, MdSA. 50. First Records, p. 22 indicates that the bluff overlooking the bend in the Jones Falls was the property of Alexander Lawson in 1747; documentary evidence in Browne v. Kennedy, 5 H. & J 195 at 196 shows that Carroll did not transfer title until 1757. Likewise the First Records attribute ownership of the Jones' Town waterfront to Sligh and Sheredine in 1747, while the case of Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430, 438-39, shows the partnership formally taking title in 1750. 51. First Records, p. 22. 52. Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430, 438-40 (Md. 1844); Scharf, History, 1:57. Scharf erroneously indicates that only eighteen acres were purchased by Sligh and Sheredine; the original documents abstracted in Casey's Lessee v. Inloes show that the transfer was for what was left of the three hundred acres which Hurst had acquired from James Todd in 1701. See Map 3. 53. Scharf, History, 1:57; 1750 Md. Acts (May) ch. XI [W. Kilty, vol. 1]; Archives of Maryland 46:463. 54. Scharf, Chronicles, 1:46; Lewis Mayer, Ground Rents in Maryland (Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald, 1883), pp. 49-51; Harrison lease to Commissioners of Baltimore Town, Baltimore County Land Records (Deeds) Liber B no. L, folio 253 (1763) [Maryland State Archives]; 1773 Md. Laws (November) ch. VIII [W. Kilty, vol. 1], confirms the validity of the lease. 55. Edward Lunne to George Eager, Lunn's Lott, Baltimore County Land Records (Deeds) Liber RM no. HS, folio 254, MdSA; Robert W. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988), pp. 194-95. 56. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, pp. 194-95, 342-43; George Eager's Power of Attorney to Cornelius Howard, Baltimore County Land Records (Deeds) Liber TB no, C, folio 674, MdSA; Cornelius Howard, Lunn's Lott Enlarged, 1763: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber BC&GS no. 18, folio 28, MdSA; Helm's Lessee v. Howard, 2 H. & McH. 57, 59, 79-81 (Md. 1784); John Eager Howard: "Deduction of Title" (personal note) andjohn Eager Howard: "Sketch of Life" (first draft): Bayard Papers, MS # 109, MdHS; Map 277, "Baltimore 1600's- 1759," Prints and Photographs, MdHS; 'John Eager Howard," Vertical File, Maryland Department, Enoch Pratt Free Library. 57. Harry W. Newman, Anne Arandel Gentry: A Genealogical History of Some Early Families of Anm Anmdel County, Maryland (3 vols; Annapolis: 1971), 2:250-54; see Map 226, "Ridgely's Addition, 1783: Part of Howard's Timber Neck," Prints and Photographs, MdHS. It is important to note that there were several distinct families of Howards in the region. While Timber Neck adjoins Lunn's Lott, owned by the Eager - Howard clan, this John Howard was not directly related to these Howards. Further connections between Howards may be found in genealogical records in Newman, Anne Arundel Gentry, Barnes, Baltimore County Families, or the Bayard Papers (MS # 109), Howard Papers (MS # 469), Howard Family Collection (MS # 2232), and Howard-Gilmor Papers (MS # 2619), MdHS. Parceling Out Land 175 58. Scharf, History, 1:290. 59. John Giles, Upton Court, 1731: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber PL no. 8, folio 97; Scharf, History, 1:290; Scharf, Chronicles, 1:239; Howard v. Moale, 2 H. & J. 250, 254 (Md. 1801); Map 277, "Baltimore 1600's-1759," Prints and Photographs, MdHS. 60. Scharf, History, 1:290. 61. Scharf, History, 1:290; Scharf, Chronicles, 1:8, 188-89, 239; Howard v. Moale, 2 H. & J. 250, 254 (Md. 1801); Map 277, "Baltimore 1600V-1759," Prints and Photographs, MdHS. 62. Richard Gist, Gist's Inspection, 1732: Baltimore County Land Records (Patents) Liber PL no. 8, folio 540, MdSA; Giraud's Lessee v. Hughes, 1 G. &J. 249, 255-56 (Md. 1829). It is unclear why the concurrent owners of Lunn's Lott did not challenge the Gist claim to this valuable waterfront property. We do know, however, that in 1732 George Eager owned Lunn's Lott; that in 1738 Cornelius Howard married George's sister, Ruth (who presumptively inherited Lunn's Lott from George when he disappeared at sea); and that three of Cornelius' sisters married three of Richard Gist's sons. See Barnes, Baltimore County Families, pp. 257-58, 342-43. 63. Howard v. Moale, 2 H. & J. 250, 253-54 (Md. 1801); Scharf, History, 1:50; Olson, Baltimore, p. 5; Scharf, Chronicles, 1:19, 188-89. 64. Howard v. Moale, 2 H. &J. 250, 254-55 (Md. 1801). See also Stanley N. Katz, "Republicanism and the Law of Inheritance in the American Revolutionary Era," Michigan Law Review, 76 (1977): 9-11; Richard B. Morris, "Primogeniture and Entailed Estates in America," Columbia. Law Review, 27 (1927), passim. 65. Scharf, History, 1:57-58. 66. Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430, 437-42, 493-94 (Md. 1844). In this instance and many others there are discrepancies when working with the number in the "ancient metes and bounds." An original call in the patent for Mountney's Neck in 1663 was for "a line drawn north-north-east running into the woods, for length, three hundred and twenty perches. ..." In the 1734 deed from Carroll to Sligh the overall length of Mountney's Neck unaccountably has shortened to three hundred perches. 67. Scharf, History, 1:59. Scharf suggests that the streets were built in the 1760s, but the best evidence is George Gouldsmith Presbury's "A New and Accurate Map of Baltimore Town" (1786), figure 201, in John W. Reps, Tidewater Towns (Wil- liamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1972), p. 288. See Figure 8. 68. Scharf, History, 1:59; Helms v. Howard, 2 H. & McH. 57, 59 (Md. 1784). 69. Helms u Howard, 2 H. & McH 57 (Md. 1784). 70. Scharf, History, 1:59. The original spelling of Camden Street is taken from Presbury, "A New and Accurate Map of Baltimore Town" (1786), figure 201, in Reps, Tidewater Towns, p. 288. On A. P. Folie's, "Plan of the Town of Baltimore and its Environs" (1792) [Figure 202 in Reps, Tidewater Towns, p. 291], the spelling was changed to Cambdon. It has long since been standardized as Camden. 71. Raphael Semmes, Baltimore as Seen by Visitors: 1783-1860 (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1953), p. 4; Scharf, Chronicles, 1:66-67.