be conflict.

In 1786 developers undertook to extend the Mountney's Neck
waterfront. In that year owners of lots along Wilks Street
(successors in title to John Cornthwaite) received permission to
extend their ground into the water to a line marked on the plats
as the port warden's line, along which logs were planted. The
area, however, also lay between Bond Street and the Basin, and
lessees of the Fell lots on the west side of Bond were likewise
expanding into the water. Logs were planted, fences were built
and the washing from Harford Run and Caroline Street was carried
into the containment area."6

Eventually the cove, south of Wilks and west of Bond filled
up and became dry land. The filled area lay at the juncture, but
outside the original boundaries, of Mountney's Neck and Fell's
Prospect. It was in front of both the Cornthwaite lands and the
Fell lands. The Act of 1745 provided no mechanism for dividing
the space between them. A half century later they would still be
litigating entitlement to the landfill "7 (Figure 13).

The arrival of Capt. John O'Donnell from China in 1785
indirectly worked to fix the Town's eastern boundary. He brought
with him the first cargo of silks, tea, and spices ever imported
to the port of Baltimore. It made his fortune, and he used part
of it to buy twenty-five hundred acres of land. Essentially he
bought all the Patapsco waterfront between Fell's Prospect and
the Chesapeake Bay. O'Donnell called his huge estate Canton,
after the Chinese port from whence he came118 (see Figure 13) .

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