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54 HISTORY OF MARYLAND.
This speculative movement had culminated about 1732, and the towns
had all of them made some ephemeral progress in the interim before
1770.1 The "back country" was being developed with wonderful energy and
rapidity, and the demand for hands was such that labor was pretty sure
of receiving consideration. Behind the hunter and trapper, who followed
the game ever westward, in his arduous chase after deer's meat and peltries, came the pioneer and backwoodsman, with their axes and their potash
kettles. Potash was an article of export, in constant demand at the coast,
to which it might be fetched on pack-horses, without the cost of transportation absorbing the article's whole value, and great sections of forest were
cut down and burnt up in order that this demand might be supplied.
When the forest was cleared and burned, the axeman already had his
little log cabin built, with its stick chimney, and here, with his family
about him, many a cockney convict forgot all about Seven Dials, St. Giles-
and Newgate, and the passage out in the prison-ship, the auction sale on
ship-board, the hard toil in the tobacco field, the overseer's whip, the escape,
the pursuit, the dreadful nightmare of the wood-rangers, only to remember
that he was a man once more, a "buckskin," and a citizen of Maryland,,
ready to fight for her rights.
In the case of hard and brutal masters or sorry and shirking servants,
there was not much hope for the redemptioner, indentured servant, or
convict, unless he ran away and succeeded in eluding the sheriffs
and constables, in escaping the treachery of other servants with whom he
took refuge, and avoiding the danger of being run down by wood-rangers
after he had succeeded in reaching " the bush." Once in or over the
mountains, the rule was abundant hospitality and no questions asked, just as
it used to be the case in Australia a few years ago, before the discovery of
gold. If caught, if incorrigible, if his master were hard and merciless and
could not manage him, he was sent off to the iron mines on the Patapsco, or
Patuxent, or Gunpowder, where he fared hardly indeed. Eddis, a humane
man, who must have conversed with many persons in Annapolis fully competent of instructing him in regard to the subject, speaks with evident
1 The list of these towns is not complete, but, port-town, in Worcester county (1745); Oxford
as given in Bacon, includes Baltimoretown, in (incorporated 1694, and destined to be the east-
Worcester (1744); Benedict-Leonard-town, in ern shore metropolis, got Act forbidding swine
St. Mary's (1733, new incorporation); Bladens- and geese from running at large in 1747);
burg, Prince George's (1742); Bridgetown, in Princess Anne, iii Somerset (1733, 1745,1747,.
Dorchester (ferry over Great Choptank, 1732); 1751,1753, amendments to charter); Salisbury
Cecil-town, in Cecil (1730); Cambridge-town, town, in Somerset (1732); Snow Hill town, in
in Dorchester (1745, with a prohibition against Worcester (1742, newly laid out); Upper Marl-
geese and swine running at large); Charles- borough (1744, new charter, with prohibition
town, in Cecil (1742); Charlestown, in Charles against swine and geese); Prince Frederick
(1724); Fredericktown, in Cecil (1736); Fred- town (1728). Of these towns and cities,
ericktown, in Frederick (1757, geese and swine Charlestown, in Cecil (which it was thought
prohibited); Georgetown, in Frederick (1757); would be the great metropolis of the State, has
Georgetown, in Kent. (1736); Jansentown, in disappeared, and, as a rule, it is found that' the
Cecil (1733); Jonas-town, in Baltimore county towns of the largest hope are those of,the=
1732); Kingstown, in Chester (1732); Leonard- smallest fulfillment. '
town (re-incorporated 1728,1730,1737); New-
| Title | History of Maryland - 2 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000079 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 54 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. This speculative movement had culminated about 1732, and the towns had all of them made some ephemeral progress in the interim before 1770.1 The "back country" was being developed with wonderful energy and rapidity, and the demand for hands was such that labor was pretty sure of receiving consideration. Behind the hunter and trapper, who followed the game ever westward, in his arduous chase after deer's meat and peltries, came the pioneer and backwoodsman, with their axes and their potash kettles. Potash was an article of export, in constant demand at the coast, to which it might be fetched on pack-horses, without the cost of transportation absorbing the article's whole value, and great sections of forest were cut down and burnt up in order that this demand might be supplied. When the forest was cleared and burned, the axeman already had his little log cabin built, with its stick chimney, and here, with his family about him, many a cockney convict forgot all about Seven Dials, St. Giles- and Newgate, and the passage out in the prison-ship, the auction sale on ship-board, the hard toil in the tobacco field, the overseer's whip, the escape, the pursuit, the dreadful nightmare of the wood-rangers, only to remember that he was a man once more, a "buckskin," and a citizen of Maryland,, ready to fight for her rights. In the case of hard and brutal masters or sorry and shirking servants, there was not much hope for the redemptioner, indentured servant, or convict, unless he ran away and succeeded in eluding the sheriffs and constables, in escaping the treachery of other servants with whom he took refuge, and avoiding the danger of being run down by wood-rangers after he had succeeded in reaching " the bush." Once in or over the mountains, the rule was abundant hospitality and no questions asked, just as it used to be the case in Australia a few years ago, before the discovery of gold. If caught, if incorrigible, if his master were hard and merciless and could not manage him, he was sent off to the iron mines on the Patapsco, or Patuxent, or Gunpowder, where he fared hardly indeed. Eddis, a humane man, who must have conversed with many persons in Annapolis fully competent of instructing him in regard to the subject, speaks with evident 1 The list of these towns is not complete, but, port-town, in Worcester county (1745); Oxford as given in Bacon, includes Baltimoretown, in (incorporated 1694, and destined to be the east- Worcester (1744); Benedict-Leonard-town, in ern shore metropolis, got Act forbidding swine St. Mary's (1733, new incorporation); Bladens- and geese from running at large in 1747); burg, Prince George's (1742); Bridgetown, in Princess Anne, iii Somerset (1733, 1745,1747,. Dorchester (ferry over Great Choptank, 1732); 1751,1753, amendments to charter); Salisbury Cecil-town, in Cecil (1730); Cambridge-town, town, in Somerset (1732); Snow Hill town, in in Dorchester (1745, with a prohibition against Worcester (1742, newly laid out); Upper Marl- geese and swine running at large); Charles- borough (1744, new charter, with prohibition town, in Cecil (1742); Charlestown, in Charles against swine and geese); Prince Frederick (1724); Fredericktown, in Cecil (1736); Fred- town (1728). Of these towns and cities, ericktown, in Frederick (1757, geese and swine Charlestown, in Cecil (which it was thought prohibited); Georgetown, in Frederick (1757); would be the great metropolis of the State, has Georgetown, in Kent. (1736); Jansentown, in disappeared, and, as a rule, it is found that' the Cecil (1733); Jonas-town, in Baltimore county towns of the largest hope are those of,the= 1732); Kingstown, in Chester (1732); Leonard- smallest fulfillment. ' town (re-incorporated 1728,1730,1737); New- |
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