| On August of 1782 William Barrow,
Dorchester County Surveyor, made a plat of the Nanticoke Manor showing
the lands that had been sold as well as some other details of the tract.
On the next two pages a copy of that plat is shown. The original plat as
drawn to to a scale of 100 perches to an inch and to maintain that scale
herein two pages were utilized rather than compressing it on one page.
In the notes accompanying the original plat Mr. Barrow indicated that the
Manor contained approximately 5320 acres of land of which 1518 acres appeared
to be patented land. The patented land is designated by the lined areas.
More of the land was sold on
July 25, 1785 and some of the purchasers on that date were:
James Stubb
John Brown
Thomas White
George Brown
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Doc. Wm. Wheland
Rev. John Bowie
John Philips
Harland Hanford
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Capt. Richard Waters
Salathel Fitchet
Levin Bestpitch |
Vienna lots were sold on July 25, 1785 to:
Joseph Daffin
Robert Ewing
Ezikiel Mason
William Barrow
Robert Heron
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John Maguire
James Shaw
Levin Lewis
John Hicks Travers
John Smoot
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Archibald Pattison
Charles S. Laing
Col. Levin Winder
Adam Muir
Jacob Stayton |
Earlier in this chapter it was
stated that "Nanticoke Manor" was one of the few tracts in Dorchester County
of British ownership that was confiscated by the Maryland authorities but
while it was one of the few, it was not the only property that was confiscated.
Actually the records on confiscated
properties not only for Dorchester County, but for the whole State of Maryland
are very sketchy, scattered amoung many files, and in most cases incomplete.
Many sales of confiscated properties are not included in THE SALE BOOK
OF CONFISCATED PROPERTIES. However, the record (Vol. 17290, page 70)
does show that on October 16, 1783 some land in Cambridge and at other
locations in the county which had been confiscated from Anthony Steward
were sold to Archibald Pattison. But from the records it would appear that
the most extensive confiscation of property in Dorchester County, excepting
"Nanticoke Manor", was the properties of Capt. Alexander Hamilton.
Page 37 of Vol. 17290 (SALE
BOOKS OF CONFISCATED PROPERTIES) shows that Levin LeCompt purchased
three tracts on September 1, 1782 that had been confiscated from Capt.
Alexander Hamilton: "Ennalls Outlet", "Smart Folly", and "Hamilton's Adventure".
Page 58 of the same volume records the sale on April 4, 1783 at Vienna.
Md. of 19 Negro slaves, the confiscated property of Hamilton. Sales read
as follows:
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Sold To:
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Negroes Sold:
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| Charles Blair |
Joshua - age 45 |
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Hogar - age 45 |
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Cinthia - age 12 |
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