. Baltimore : its history and its people. site, and he selected lotNo. 49, situated at what is now the northeast corner of Calvert and Waterstreets, the south side of which at that time fronted on the water as thename of the adjacent street indicates. The second lot selected was No. 37,taken up by Mr. Philip Jones, the county surveyor, by whom the townhad been laid out. It was at about the middle of the block now boundedby Charles, Light, Lombard and Pratt streets, but at the time of choice ithad water fronts on both the south and east sides. The choice of lots went on but slowly after the fir
. Baltimore : its history and its people. site, and he selected lotNo. 49, situated at what is now the northeast corner of Calvert and Waterstreets, the south side of which at that time fronted on the water as thename of the adjacent street indicates. The second lot selected was No. 37,taken up by Mr. Philip Jones, the county surveyor, by whom the townhad been laid out. It was at about the middle of the block now boundedby Charles, Light, Lombard and Pratt streets, but at the time of choice ithad water fronts on both the south and east sides. The choice of lots went on but slowly after the first year, at the rate ofthree or four lots a year, and numbers of those taken up a])parently witha view to a modest speculation, were subsequently forfeited by the failureof the subscribers to comply with the terms of the act of Assembly byerecting a house upon the lot within the time limited. In 1732 an act was passed by the General Assembly for the erectionof a Town on a creek, divided on the East from the Town lately laid out .^1*<. V i 1 „^ .__ 1 « 3 . ^ i . 3 » i \.>. « s I °- •^-a »«>« -- «~ <.=.»=-OaC X33axs XS3T30_i
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