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72. First Records, p. 22; Browne v. Kennedy, 5 H. &J. 195, 196-99 (Md. 1821).

73. Browne v. Kennedy, 5 H. &J. 195, 196-99 (Md. 1821); Scharf, History, 1:54.
Scharf indicates that the 1759 grantor to Steiger was Dr. William Taylor. This is
assumed to be a mistake since Browne v. Kennedy, the earlier, more primary source,
fixes ownership in 1757 in Dr. William Lyon, and a search suggests the non-exist-
ence of a Dr. William Taylor.

74. First Records, pp. 39-40; Scharf, History, 1:60-61; Scharf, Chronicles, 1:62.

75. 1766 Md. Laws (November) ch. XXII [W. Kilty, vol. 1]; Archives of Maryland,
61:253.

76. Plats of Harrison's Marshes, Baltimore County Land Records (Plats), 1784,
MdSA.

77. 1766 Md. Laws (November) ch. XXII (sees. Ill, IX) [W. Kilty, vol. 1], Archives
of Maryland, 61:253.

78. 1766 Md. Laws (November) ch. XXII (sec. VII) [W. Kilty, vol. 1], Archives of
Maryland, 61:253.

79. Mayer, Ground Rents, pp. 49-51; 1766 Md. Laws (November) ch. XXII
(preamble) [W. Kilty, vol. 1], Archives of Maryland, 61:253.

80. 1779 Md. Laws (November) ch. XX [W Kilty, vol. 1]; Sherry Olson, Baltimore,
pp. 12-13; see Plats of Harrison's Marshes, 1784, note 76.

81. Scharf, History, 1:59-60; Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430,452-55,494 (Md.
1844).

82.  Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430, 460-64 (Md. 1844).

83. Gould, Land System in Maryland, pp. 10, 24-25;J. Kilty, Land-holder's Assistant,
pp. 232, 271-72.

84.  Scharf, History, 1:59-60.

85.  Ibid.

86. Mayer, Ground Rents in Maryland, pp. 49-53; Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill
430, 464-65 (Md. 1844); Scharf, Chronicles, vol. 1, p. 71. See, e.g., Ann Fell tojohn
Bond: Baltimore County Land Records (Deeds) Liber AL no. A, folio 186, MdSA.

87. 1773 Md. Laws (June) ch. IV. [W. Kilty, vol. 1]; Scharf, Chronicles, 1:71-72;
Scharf History, 1:59-60.

88.  Scharf, History, 1:59-60; Olson, Baltimore, p. 12.

89. Scharf, History, 1:59-60, 185; Olson, Baltimore, p. 12; Paul Kent Walker, "The
Baltimore Community and the American Revolution: A Study in Urban Develop
ment, 1763-1783" (unpubl. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina 1973), pp.
91-94, 119.

90. Frank Cassell, Merchant Congressman in the Young Republic: Samuel Smith of
Maryland, 1752-1839 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971), pp. 35-40;
Olson, Baltimore, pp. 13-15.

91.  Olson, Baltimore, pp. 14-15; Scharf, History, 1:290-91.

92. Mason, "Charles Carroll of Carrollton," pp. 9-14; 'John Eager Howard,"
Vertical File, Maryland Department, Enoch Pratt Free Library; Cassell, Samuel
Smith, pp. 4-11, 35-42; Olson, Baltimore, pp. 10-16.

93. Howard v. Moale, 2 H. & J. 250, 255 (Md. 1801); Olson, Baltimore, p. 16;
Katz, "Republicanism," pp. 14-25.

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94. 1782 Md. Laws (November) ch. XXIII [W. Kilty, vol. 1]; Howard v. Moale, 2
H. &J. 250, 254-57 (Md. 1801). See also Katz, "Republicanism," pp. 14-25.

95.  Mason, "Charles Carroll of Carrollton," pp. 9-14.

96. As previously detailed, in 1711 the grandfather, Charles Carroll the Settler,
sold thirty-one acres to Jonathan Hanson; in 1729 the father, Charles Carroll of
Annapolis, subdivided sixty acres for the establishment of the first Baltimore Town;
in 1734 he apparently quitclaimed his interest in fifty submerged acres to William
Fell; in 1757 he sold seven and one-half acres bordering the Falls on the south to
Alexander Lawson, thirteen and one-half acres north of the Falls to Dr. William
Lyon, and thirty-two acres on the western outskirts of town to Joshua Hall; in 1759
the northeasternmost one hundred fifty acres of the tract were transferred to
Thomas Sligh. Taking into account the inadequacy of descriptions and the vagaries
of surveys, it is impossible to say for certain, but virtually all of the parcel first
transferred from James Todd to the Settler in 1701 (recall Map 3) seems to have
been disposed of prior to the death of Charles Carroll of Carrollton's father, Charles
Carroll of Annapolis, in 1782.

97.  Scharf, Chronicles, 1:62-63.

98. Browne v. Kennedy, 5 H. &J. 195, 197, 198 (Md. 1821); Scharf, History, 1:61.
Scharf dates the diversion of the Jones Falls to 1781, but the 1786 date taken from
Browne v. Kennedy seems more reliable.

99. Browne v. Kennedy, 5 H. & J. 195, 199 (Md. 1821).

100. 1773 Md. Laws (November) ch. XXI [W. Kilty, vol. 1]; 1781 Md. Laws
(November) ch. XXIV [W. Kilty, vol. 1]; 1782 Md. Laws (November) ch. VIII [W.
Kilty, vol. 1]. Though the legislation spells the name "Stigar," all other sources
conclude the proper spelling to be "Steiger."

101. "Historical Growth of Baltimore," Map of Baltimore City (Bureau of Plans
and Surveys, 1933); 1782 Md. Laws (April) ch. II [W. Kilty, vol. 1].

102. 1782 Md. Laws (November) ch. VIII [W. Kilty, vol. 1]; 1782 Md. Laws (April)
ch. II [W. Kilty, vol. 1].

103.  Olson, Baltimore, pp. 1, 10-11, 18-19, 25.

104. Natalie Shivers, Those Old Placid Rows: The Aesthetic and Development of the
Baltimore Rowhouse (Baltimore: Maclay & Associates, 1981), p. 21; Scharf, Chronicles,
1:288-90; 'John Eager Howard's Addition; Part of Lun's Lot," Map 209 (1782),
Prints & Photographs, MdHS.

105.   1745 Md. Laws (August) ch. IX [W. Kilty, vol. \}, Archives of Maryland, 44:214.

106. Compare 'John Eager Howard's Addition; Part of Lun's Lot" Map 209
(1782), with "Land Transaction Between John E. Howard, Hans Morrison, John
Meekle, and John McDonough" [on reverse] Map 246 (1786), Prints and
Photographs, MdHS.

107. Sidney Homer, A History of Interest Rates (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers
University Press, 1963), p. 278; Gary Browne, Baltimore in the Nation, 1789-1861
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980), p. 12. See alsojohn Fiske,
The Critical Period of American History (New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899),
pp. 163-68.