ENDNOTES

1. Harrison v. Sterett. 4 H. & McH. 540 (Md. 1774); Helms v.
Howard. 2 H. & McH. 57 (Md. 1784) ; gmith and Purviances v.
Maryland. 2 H. & McH. 244 (Md. 1788); Howard v. Moale. 2 H. & J.
249 (Md. 1801) ; Browne v. Kennedy. 5 H. & J. 195 (Md. 1821) ;
Cunningham v._Browning. 1 Bland 299 (Md. 1827); Giraud's Lessee v.
Hughes. 1 G. & J. 249 (Md. 1829); Dugan v. Baltimore. 5 G. & J. 357
(Md. 1833); Wilson's Lessee v. Inloes. 11 G. & J. 351 (Md. 1840);
Casey's Lessee v. Inloes. 1 Gill 430 (Md. 1844); Wilson's Lessee v.
Inloes, 6 Gill 121 (Md. 1847) ; Hammmond v. Inloes. 4 Md. 138
(1853) ; Peterkin v. Inloes. 4 Md. 175 (1853) ; Garitee v. Baltimore.
53 Md. 422 (Md. 1880) .

2. John Kilty, The Land-Holder's Assistant. (Baltimore: G.
Dobbins & Murphy, 1808); John M'Henry, The Ejectment Law of
Maryland. (Frederick-town: Herald Press, 1822); Lewis Mayer, Ground
Rents in Maryland, (Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald, 1883).

3. J. Thomas Scharf, The Chronicles of Baltimore. (1874; reprint
ed. , Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books Inc., 1989), vol. I, p. v; J.
Thomas Scharf, History of Baltimore City and County, (1881; reprint
ed., Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company, 1971).

4.   Robert J. Brugger, Maryland. A Middle Temperament: 1634-1980
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), pp. 3-5.

5. Lewis W. Wilhelm, Local Institutions of Maryland. (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University 1885), pp. 8-13; Mayer, Ground Rents, pp.
9-12.

6. J. Kilty, Land-Holder's Assistant, p. 30; Mayer, Ground Rents.
pp. 12-20; Gregory A. Stiverson, Poverty in a Land of Plenty:
Tenancy in Eighteenth Century Maryland. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1977), pp. 1-27; Clarence P. Gould, The Land
System in Maryland 1720-1765, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press,
1913), passim.

7.   Gould, Land System in Maryland, pp. 16-18.

8. "Baltimore County, at one time, embraced all of the province
lying around the head of the bay, from the Patapsco river on the
west, to Chester river on the east, and included the present
counties of Carroll, Harford, Cecil, Baltimore and probably Kent".
Wilhelm, Local Institutions, p. 374; Scharf, Chronicles, vol. 1, p.

9.

9. Scharf, Chronicles, vol. 1, pp. 9-10; Scharf, History, vol. 1,
pp. 48-50; David Jones, Jones his Range, 1678: Baltimore County
Land Records (Patents) Liber 20, folio 8 [Maryland State Archives].

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