Lyons Creek is a branch of the Patuxent River that forms the boundary between Anne Arundel and Calvert counties. Maryland records seldom indicate how and when bodies of water, especially the smaller and less important ones, received their names. One of the exceptions concerns Lyons Creek, as found by Carson Gibb, a researcher and volunteer at the Archives, in Land Office (Patent Record) in series S11 in 13, pp. 93-95. Other references concerning the same tract of land appear in 13, pp. 125, 131-132 and 14, pp. 416-420. 

Henry Cox immigrated into Maryland from Virginia by 1653. He obtained rights to land for bringing himself and Paul Busey into the colony and through assignments of rights from other individuals. Between 1653 and 1673, he obtained patents for seven tracts of land in northern Calvert County. In 1653, two warrants were executed for the survey of two tracts, each with 300 acres. In 1658, a patent was issued for one of them - Coxes Hays. According to a petition filed in 1671, Cox did not receive the second patent, although he used the land and paid quit rents during the intervening time period. Officials could locate the records of the assignment and warrant, but not the certificate of survey. Cox blamed this oversight on "those troublesome times" in 1656 and 1657, years for which "very few records for lands" existed. 

In the 1671 petition to Lord Baltimore, Henry Cox requested a resurvey of the land to establish the original boundaries and prevent encroachments from later surveys. As proofs he presented men who could testify about the original survey, and he provided references to patents that mentioned his land. Accompanying the petition was the deposition of John Hambleton, age 50, who was present at the survey of both 300 acre tracts. The tract remaining unpatented bordered on the Patuxent River and a creek. According to Hambleton, the surveyor asked Cox for the name of the creek. Cox replied that it

The petition was viewed favorably and a warrant for a resurvey was issued on April 21, 1671, with the boundary lines to be based on the testimony of inhabitants. The land, named appropriately Lyons Creek, was surveyed two months later, but not everyone was satisfied. Some landowners claimed the lines did not follow the survey done in the 1650s. Another survey and more testimony was ordered. Accordingly, the line began at the mouth of Lyons Creek, followed the Patuxent River southeast for 108 perches, then east from a bounded oak for 316 perches, then from another bounded oak northwest for 230 perches, and then along Lyons Creek to the beginning point. The patent was issued subsequently on July 10, 1671. 

In the course of processing Baltimore County Register of Wills (Wills, Original) in series C437 Stephanie Shaffer, a researcher and volunteer at the Archives, made an interesting discovery. On December 11, 1807 six sailors on the Rebecca - William Wood, William Kain, James Brown, Matthew Short, Isaac Thompson, and Jonathan Jewett - executed a power of attorney to Thomas Kirk, an innkeeper in Baltimore City. In the event of their deaths Kirk was authorized to collect money due them. Something must have happened to Brown and Short because the paper was filed with the register of wills on December 12, 1810. Before then, the item had become torn and was glued to a piece 

On the newsprint appears a notice from James Hanna about items for sale at the Baltimore Medical Warehouse No. 102 on Market Street, between South and Calvert Streets. The medicines and supplies included allum, annatto, copperas, opium, camphir, gun kino, shell lac, asphaltunc, flowers chamomile, red and yellow bark, sugar lead, cream tartar, alexandria senna, pearl ashes, cochineal, lunar caustic, lavender water, cantharides, sarsaparilla, spermaceti, magnesia, arrow root, tapioca, sago, borax, saffron, benzoin, caster oil, ipecacacuanah, refined liquorice, glauber salts, balsam copivi, gum tragacanta, cassia, gamboge, gum elastic, white wax, essence of spruce, and apothecary gold scales and weights.