On Sat, 19 Sep 1998 17:15:03 ruthcandoit writes:
THIS WAS THE LIFE--1764; Source: Fairfax City Library, VA
" In a petition to the Court, John Carmack states 'that as he now
keeps
a house of entertainment for travellers on the main road that leads
from Frederick Town to Baltimore' he now asks that the Court 'allow
the road to be turned
through his plantation by his door which will not alter the distance
above 40 rods and...wil save him the tyrouble of making gates to pass
through the plantation much to his disadvantage.'
The Court appoints John Middagh and William Beatty to view the
proposed road and report to the August Court."
* * *
HISTORY OF FREDERICK COUNTY--monocacy village; Source: Little Rock
Library, ARKANSAS
"The first settlement in the limits of what is now Frederick County
was probably
at the town or village which was known as Monocacy, a name which has
now disappeared from that location. This ancient village, the oldest
in Western
Maryland beyond the lower part of Montgomery County, was situated, it
is believed at or near the present village of Creagerstown."
"Then again I have found traces plain and unmistakable in two
instances of the
old Monocacy Road of which you speak, passing just below in a
southwestern direction and crossing Hunting Creek, where according to
tradition, there was an old tavern and where there are now three or
four old dwellings. Tradition also says
that the Monocacy road crossed the river at Poe's ford, which has not
been used for
over a century but corresponds with the two points to which you refer.
The road on both sides of the creek lies in timber land of old,
sturdy oak. The distances also which you have indicated point to that
spot, viz., a short distance southeast of Craegerstown. The location
of the place, elevated, affording a fine view, and surrounded by
beautiful, sloping lands, are all in evidence.'
"This statement of Mr Whitemore's," Mr Schultz adds, "agrees in every
particular with the data we have heretofore been able to obtain and I
therefore believe that the few old houses and the old graveyard are
all perhaps that remain of the ancient village of Monocacy. Although
it never reached the dignity of a laid-off town as its later and
moresuccessful rival Frederick did, yet as we have seen by the
journals of the Reverends Sclatter and Muhlenberg, as well as the
reference Washington makes to it in one of his letters, it was a point
of some importance in Colonial days."
* * *
I believe the second reference was written in 1800's. Anyway I took a
picture of
Monocacy River as we left Detour, Md. That particular day it was very
muddy and brown-looking! Ruth Carmack. More later.
l
I have to do a better job of proofreading--The Reverend Sclatter should
be
coorected to REVEREND SCHLATTER. Sorry. Ruth
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