to his brother-in-law. George was never heard from again.
Cornelius Howard took title in his own name and in 1763 he had
Lunn's Lott enlarged to include contiguous vacancies. Its eastern
boundary line, which overlapped with Cole's Harbour, was in
doubt56 (Figure 7) .

Neighboring Timber Neck was owned by John Howard, no
immediate relative to Cornelius. He passed it down through his
family to his granddaughter Rachel, who in 1721 married Charles
Ridgely. In 1744, Charles Ridgely had Timber Neck resurveyed and
laid out for one hundred sixty-five acres.  This land was
destined to include the neighborhood of Ridgely's Delight, an
eighteenth century development of two- and three-storey
rowhouses ,57

During the first two decades of the eighteenth century the
peninsula of land lying between the Middle and Northwest Branches
of the Patapsco River remained unoccupied. Charles Gorsuch long
ago vacated his 1661 patent to Whetstone Point, and it had been
repatented to absentee owner James Carroll in 1702. A 1706
legislative plan to designate the area a port of entry died
aborning when neither traders nor planters took advantage. Upton
Court and David's Fancy, the other two seventeenth century
patents, were both vacant and apparently escheat.58

Beginning in 1723 John Giles (yet another Quaker land
speculator) sought to capitalize on this vacancy. In that year he
obtained a certificate of resurvey to Upton Court (though he did
not patent the land until 1731), and in 1725 he consolidated it

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