490 THE COUNTIES OF MARYLAND

up Cabin creek mill ponds and stream and branch until
said stream or branch intersects the county road leading
from Cabin creek village to Shiloh church, thence with
said road to the county road leading from East New
Market to Rhodesdale, and thence with said to the Forks
District line."

1906 Ch. 494. Erects 17th election district out of parts of 3d, 11th, and 14th
election districts.

" Beginning at the bridge on the county road at Little
Brick Mills, and following the mill stream southward to
the Chicacomico river; thence with said river southward
to the Transquakin river; thence following said Trans-
quakin river northward to Dumpling Point; thence north-
ward with the center line of the branch known as Middle-
town Branch to the double bridges at Middletown; thence
westward to the junction of the Linkwood road at the
Middletown schoolhouse; thence with said road northward
to the junction of the road leading from Salem to Link-
wood; thence with said road westward to the mouth of the
road known as the Red Lane; thence northward with said
Red Lane road to the road leading from Little Brick Mills
to Hawkeye; thence eastward with said Little Brick Mills
road to the road leading from the old Baptist meeting
house to the Little Brick Mills; thence northward to the
place of beginning."

FREDERICK COUNTY.

The earliest settlements in Frederick County were made along the
Monocacy River and date from the early part of the eighteenth century,
some authorities claiming the first settlements to have been made as early
as 1710. There were, however, no permanent settlements of any import-
ance within the limits of the present Frederick County prior to the fifth
decade of the eighteenth century. At this time many Germans from
Pennsylvania found their way southward along the old Monocacy trail
and settled in the fertile valley of the Monocacy in the vicinity of
Grayson, Creagerstown, and Frederick. The growth in population in
this region was very rapid and by 1748 it appeared wise to erect a new
county for their accommodation. The act by which this was decreed
enacted that

"Beginning at the lower Side of the Mouth of Rock Creek, and thence by
a strait Line joining to the East Side of Beth Hyatt's Plantation, to Patuxent
River .... then with Patuxent River to the Lines of Baltimore County, and