. Historic towns of the Southern States. s per acre, payable intobacco at one penny per pound. The townwas then surveyed and laid out into lots, afterthe most approved boomer fashion of secure an estate in fee simple, takers-up of lots were required to erect thereon, withineighteen months, a building covering at leastfour hundred square feet : failure to complywith this condition laid the lots open for othertakers-up. Baltimores boom seems to have started well,for after Mr. Carroll, as former owner, hadselected the first lot, no less than fifteen otherpersons invested the same year.
. Historic towns of the Southern States. s per acre, payable intobacco at one penny per pound. The townwas then surveyed and laid out into lots, afterthe most approved boomer fashion of secure an estate in fee simple, takers-up of lots were required to erect thereon, withineighteen months, a building covering at leastfour hundred square feet : failure to complywith this condition laid the lots open for othertakers-up. Baltimores boom seems to have started well,for after Mr. Carroll, as former owner, hadselected the first lot, no less than fifteen otherpersons invested the same year. This successwas so much appreciated that two years lateranother town was established, consisting of twoacres laid out into twenty lots, just east of theFalls, where Edward Fell keeps between the new town, knownas Jones or Jonastown, and Baltimore wassoon improved by a bridge across the Falls,and a few years later the two towns wereby Act of Assembly formally made into one. A third distinct element in the early growth. EDWARD FELL, IN UNIFORM OF PROVINCIAL FORCES. FROM ORIGINAL PAINTING m POSSESSION OF WILLIAM FELL JOHNSON lo Baltimore of Baltimore was a settlement somewhat far-ther to the east, known as Fells Point. In1730, Mr. William Fell, a Lancastrian Quaker,purchased a tract of land known as CopussHarbor and erected thereon a mansion. Alittle to the south, a point jutting out into thePatapsco offered wharfage facilities to vesselsof large draft that were denied entrance to theshallow basin of Baltimore town. This factwas soon appreciated, and at a later timeEdward Fell, who was the son of William, andan officer in the Provincial army, laid out FellsPoint into lots, thereby reaping a fortunemagnificent for those times. Durino- the first half of the eis^hteenth cen-tury little of note happened in a few years, however, some of themost important influences in its later develop-ment began to make themselves felt. InNorthern Maryland, particu
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