located by metes and bounds nominally between the original lines
of Lunn's Lott and the basin.  In reality, a considerable portion
was covered by water.62

In 1737 John Moale obtained a warrant of escheat entitling
him as first discoverer to "David's Fancy along with the benefit
of any contiguous vacancy".  Moale appears to have shared
ownership of most of the peninsula with the Principio Furnace
Company and Richard Gist. The approximate locations of Gist's
Inspection, David's Fancy, and Whetstone Point are set forth on
Figure 763.

John Moale, the elder, died in 1740 leaving two sons, John
the younger and Richard. His will devised parcels in and around
Baltimore Town to John the younger, and David's Fancy (which
consisted of all of "Upton Court and adjoining escheat land") to
the six-year-old Richard "and the heirs of his body, lawfully
begotten, forever". This fee tail estate was a device employed by
England's landed aristocracy to keep estates in the family. It
required that lands pass from generation to generation in single
file descent, and prevented the living generation from selling or
subdividing the land. According to the strict settlement, when
Richard died the parcel would pass to his heirs and subsequently
to his heirs' heirs.6'

XIV. Taking Stock at mid-Eighteenth Century

At mid-eighteenth century the environs of Baltimore lay ripe

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