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THE LABADISTS OF BOHEMIA MANOR. 429
Chestnut Eidge. He organized a congregation at his house, of which George
Eglesfield, of Pennsylvania, was pastor. He was succeeded by Paul Palmer,
and Henry Loveall; and in 1742 a church was formed with fifty-seven members, who subscribed a declaration of faith laid before the governor. In four
years the church numbered one hundred and eighty-one members, and its
membership extended into Virginia. A church of Particular Baptists was
organized in Harford county about 1772, which extended to Baltimore, where
a church was erected on the southeast corner of Fayette and Front streets;
Messrs. David Shields, George Presstman, Eichard Lemmon, Alexander McKim
and others, furnishing the means, and opened in 1785.
On June 29th, 1740, the king made a requisition on Maryland to raise and
equip five hundred volunteers for service against Spain, with which country
war had broken out the previous year. The assembly voted £2,560, afterwards
increasing the sum to £5,000. The volunteers thus raised were sent to
Carthagena to join the forces of Wentworth and Vernon, and, it is said, that
nine-tenths of the colonial levies perished in the terrible mortality that
raged in the British forces, and carried off, as we are told, twenty thousand
men. During this war the Spanish privateers did considerable damage to
colonial commerce; and several entering the Chesapeake, plundered plantations on the Eastern shore.
NOTE ON AUGUSTINE HERMANN AND THE LABADISTS OF BOHEMIA MANOR.
This Hermann was a man of some importance in the early days of the colony. He
was a native of Prague, Bohemia, whence he emigrated to the Dutch settlements at Manhattan. We have already given some account of his mission from Stuyvesant to the
Maryland authorities, after which he visited Virginia. About this time, 1660, he proposed
to Lord Baltimore to make an exact map of the country, if his Lordship would be pleased
to grant " him a certain tract of land as an inheritance to his posterity, and the privileges
of a manor."
"By letter, September 18, his Lordship, in acceptance thereof, recommended the
granting to the Honorable Philip Calvert, Esquire, then governor—and was then supposed,
the one tract to contain about 4,000 acres, the other 1,000 acres, good plantable land—danger of Indians not then permitting a certain inspection nor survey of that far remote, then
unknown wilderness.
" Whereupon, January 14, a Patent of free Denization issueth forth out of the office;
and Augustine Hermann bought all the land there (by permission of the Governor and
Council) of the Susquehanoh Indians, then met with the great men out of the Susque-
hanoh Fort at Spes-Uty Isle, upon a treaty of Soldiers, as the old record will testify, and
thereupon took possession ; and transported his people from Manhattan, now New York,
1661 (with great cost and charge), to inhabit." 1
This land was patented to him on October 12,1663, under the name of Bohemia, or
Bohemia Manor. By subsequent additions it was increased to nearly twenty thousand
acres, lying in both Maryland and Delaware, and just west of Elk river. From the conditions attached to the grant of a manor, as well as from the expressions about the
transportation of" his people " above quoted, it will be seen that Hermann was a man of
considerable substance. In 1664, he and his family were naturalized as citizens of Maryland by an Act of Assembly—the first act of the kind passed in the colonies.
1 Herman's Journal.
| Title | History of Maryland - 1 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000462 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE LABADISTS OF BOHEMIA MANOR. 429 Chestnut Eidge. He organized a congregation at his house, of which George Eglesfield, of Pennsylvania, was pastor. He was succeeded by Paul Palmer, and Henry Loveall; and in 1742 a church was formed with fifty-seven members, who subscribed a declaration of faith laid before the governor. In four years the church numbered one hundred and eighty-one members, and its membership extended into Virginia. A church of Particular Baptists was organized in Harford county about 1772, which extended to Baltimore, where a church was erected on the southeast corner of Fayette and Front streets; Messrs. David Shields, George Presstman, Eichard Lemmon, Alexander McKim and others, furnishing the means, and opened in 1785. On June 29th, 1740, the king made a requisition on Maryland to raise and equip five hundred volunteers for service against Spain, with which country war had broken out the previous year. The assembly voted £2,560, afterwards increasing the sum to £5,000. The volunteers thus raised were sent to Carthagena to join the forces of Wentworth and Vernon, and, it is said, that nine-tenths of the colonial levies perished in the terrible mortality that raged in the British forces, and carried off, as we are told, twenty thousand men. During this war the Spanish privateers did considerable damage to colonial commerce; and several entering the Chesapeake, plundered plantations on the Eastern shore. NOTE ON AUGUSTINE HERMANN AND THE LABADISTS OF BOHEMIA MANOR. This Hermann was a man of some importance in the early days of the colony. He was a native of Prague, Bohemia, whence he emigrated to the Dutch settlements at Manhattan. We have already given some account of his mission from Stuyvesant to the Maryland authorities, after which he visited Virginia. About this time, 1660, he proposed to Lord Baltimore to make an exact map of the country, if his Lordship would be pleased to grant " him a certain tract of land as an inheritance to his posterity, and the privileges of a manor." "By letter, September 18, his Lordship, in acceptance thereof, recommended the granting to the Honorable Philip Calvert, Esquire, then governor—and was then supposed, the one tract to contain about 4,000 acres, the other 1,000 acres, good plantable land—danger of Indians not then permitting a certain inspection nor survey of that far remote, then unknown wilderness. " Whereupon, January 14, a Patent of free Denization issueth forth out of the office; and Augustine Hermann bought all the land there (by permission of the Governor and Council) of the Susquehanoh Indians, then met with the great men out of the Susque- hanoh Fort at Spes-Uty Isle, upon a treaty of Soldiers, as the old record will testify, and thereupon took possession ; and transported his people from Manhattan, now New York, 1661 (with great cost and charge), to inhabit." 1 This land was patented to him on October 12,1663, under the name of Bohemia, or Bohemia Manor. By subsequent additions it was increased to nearly twenty thousand acres, lying in both Maryland and Delaware, and just west of Elk river. From the conditions attached to the grant of a manor, as well as from the expressions about the transportation of" his people " above quoted, it will be seen that Hermann was a man of considerable substance. In 1664, he and his family were naturalized as citizens of Maryland by an Act of Assembly—the first act of the kind passed in the colonies. 1 Herman's Journal. |
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