Baltimore: its past and present . f France. Nearly a century, after the charter was obtained, passed belore Baltimore wasfounded. About 1659 however Baltim )re County was erected and its bounds includedthe present Counties of Harford, Cecil and part of Kent. The County Seat of Balti-more County was Joppa, on the east side of the Gunpowder River, about half a milesouth of the Phila. & Wil R. R. Joppa was a great Tobacco market, contained theCourthouse, the Jail, the St. Johns Church, Warehouses, Shipyards and some largestone Dwellings It has since disappeared and only the name of a lonesom Coun
Baltimore: its past and present . f France. Nearly a century, after the charter was obtained, passed belore Baltimore wasfounded. About 1659 however Baltim )re County was erected and its bounds includedthe present Counties of Harford, Cecil and part of Kent. The County Seat of Balti-more County was Joppa, on the east side of the Gunpowder River, about half a milesouth of the Phila. & Wil R. R. Joppa was a great Tobacco market, contained theCourthouse, the Jail, the St. Johns Church, Warehouses, Shipyards and some largestone Dwellings It has since disappeared and only the name of a lonesom CountyRoad in Baltimore County, the old Joppa Road, reminds us of this once importantCounty seat of Baltimore County. In consequence of the wise and liberal policy of religious toleration Maryland becameunder the auspices of a Roman Catholic Proprietary, the haven fi)r all who were sutler-ing religious persecution. Of him it was written: Never did people enjoy morehappiness than the inhabitants of Maryland under Cecilius BALTIMORE TOWN IN I729. The population steadily increased and in 1729 an act was passed by the Assembly forerecting a town on the north side of the Patapsco River, Baltimore County, and forlaying out sixty acres of land for which the sum of forty shillings per acre shall bepaid. On the 12th of January, 1730, seven of the Commissioners appointed by theAssembly, Major Thomas Folley. Wm Hamilton, Wm. Buckner, Dr. George Walker,Richard Gist, Dr. George Buchanan and Col Wm. Hammond and Philip Jones,Deputy County Surveyor began to lay out the Town, beginning at a bounded redoak on the waterside (at a spot not very far from the present corner of Light andGerman Streets). The line then ran northwesterly (to about Sharp Street) where itstruck the Great Eastern Road. It followed this line northeast to a sharp angle on theprecipice, (corner Saratoga and St. Paul Streets;) then ran down the devious line ofJones Falls to near its present intersection with Holliday Str
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