to Andrew Steiger, or was it still vested in Charles Carroll of
Annapolis? In an ejectment action decide thirty-five years after
the fact, the Court of Appeals of Maryland discounted the Carroll
claim to the bed and split the difference between the heirs of
Lawson and Steiger's successors in interest."

On the east side of town loose ends left over from before
the Revolution impeded development. A 1773 Assembly authorization
to add eighteen acres owned by John Moale and Andrew Steiger to
the Old Town section had never been formally acted upon. It was
re-enacted in January 1782 by the General Assembly. That same law
also provided for the addition to Fell's Point of as much of
William Fell's Prospect as the town commissioners "may think
necessary." Separate legislation authorized annexation of such
portions of Parker's Haven and Kemp's Additon as would
"contribute to promote the trade and commerce"; this
authorization was not acted upon100 (Figure 10) .

On the west side of town parts of Lunn's Lott had been
annexed to Baltimore Town in 1753 and 1765, which Cornelius
Howard had laid out into lots. After John Eager Howard succeeded
to his father's estate in 1782 he pursuaded the General Assembly
to add the rest of Lunn's Lott. Howard took one hundred thirty-
five acres of it and laid out approximately three hundred fifty
lots along a grid from Warren Street up to Saratoga Street with
the new Howard Street as the north/south axis. Howard's Addition,
as it was known, was the largest single addition in the history
of Baltimore Town101 (Figure 11) .

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