History
of The Society of Jesus in North America Colonial and Federal
by Thomas Hughes of the same society
Cleveland
The Burrows Brothers Company
London and New York
Longmans, Green, and Co.
1908
transcribed by Linda Boorom
Joseph Gates's gift of landed property
in Maryland. This
gentleman
seems in the first instance to have bound over his property for
the service of the missionaries under the obligation of a bond to
them ; then in due time to have discharged the obligation. The
quantity of land was 867 acres, of which certain parts mentioned
as still being Jesuit property at the beginning of the eighteenth
century amounted apparently to 400 or 468 acres. They were
named Gates' Hope, Gates' Purchase, Maidstone, and New
page 256
Brandford. In 1779, Jan. 5, a portion of Gates's land was
sold by Father Bolton.
Obligation, £800 sterling, to
make over the following land: Gates's
Range, containing by patent eight hundred and [sixty-seven] acres, lying
in Charles County, and whatever other land he may lay right or claim
too in the above said County . . . 4th day of November, Anno 1740.
Signed: Joseph Gates.
Witnesses: Richard Archbold, Robert Harding, Arnold Livers Signor
[scil. Senior, father (?) of Arnold Livers Junior, the Jesuit].
Endorsed: Joseph Gates bond for making over his land, with papers
included relating to the said land. In pencil: To Thomas Pulton.
The papers do not appear in this place, and the document itself is torn.
Mr. Hunter,
Sr. I have droan out part of a tract of land called Hunt's
Venture: five lines of explanation, with the plat, which contains the
phrase: thence to a bounded beech tat I proveed for my Brother in
Law, Peter Carricio, belonging all so to Maidstone, and from thence to
an old locospost. Here follow the lines, etc.
In Father Hunters hand : Nov. 1750. Jos. Gates.
Endorsed by Cary [?]: Plate of Hunt's Venture in St. Mary's
Ibid., plat of Hunt's Venture in St. Mary's, addressed to Father G. Hunter,
and inscribed by him with the date and Gates's name.
C.
Memoranda concerning Gates's land.
The patent or certificate of David Driver's land (now in posses-
sion of Anderson, son of Jn. Anderson, who escheated the above land
of Drivers about the year 1721 or '22) calls for a white oak tree of
Gates's Hope, which if made out would recover about 18 acres. David
Drivers' land was taken up between the years 1668 and 1688.
Gates's Hope was taken up in 1668, and New Brandford in 1688.
Gates's Hope, 150 or 200 acres, if the above boundary can be proved.
Gates's Purchase, 30 at first, by vacant land taken up afterwards
made it 60 acres.
Maidstone, 20 acres.
New Brandford, 170 acres.
(b) Certificates of the bounds and courses of each tract to be gott from
Annapolis - of the courses of each, viz. of Gates's Hope, New Brandford,
Gates's Purchase and Maidstone.
Page 257
Messrs. Miles, Mudd and Bro. Jos. all agree on the beginning tree of
New Brandford.
Maidstone boundarys are known to Wm. Hagan, Peter Carico, Billy
Brien and their children.
Ibid., 12mo slip: note by Hunter
Ibid. W. Stuart, clerk, supplies a true copy, from Lib. No. 22, fol. 323, on a
1/2 p. 4to, of the lines of New Brandford, between Canterberry, Gates Hope, David
Drivers, to a bound upon the Couch Road that goes from St. Mary's to Major
Trowmans, containing 875 acres, as surveyed for Robert Gates, Jan. 27, 1686.
RD. SR.
This accompanys the Baltimore County Saint, who waits upon
you in order to settle his affair. He begs you'll take care to do his
business in the safest manner, that he may be put to no farther trouble.
I would not have my name put in any of the deeds. I think Mr. Neale
[scil. Bennet Neale, S.J.], and some one else in case of his death, will be
more proper. I need not recommend Mr. Kingdone to your care any
mores, as I am persuaded you'll omitt nothing in your power to make his
passage agreeable to him.
Endorsed: Rd.
Mr. Digges, 15 Augt 1758. Bills of Exchange, 3d [?]
4sh. etc.
Note scribbled, ibid.:
Ibid., Bb, letter of Father T. Digges, Aug. 15, 1756, to Rd. Mr. Ashby
at Portobacco, By Joseph Gates, with memoranda scribbled on the back: Bills
of Exchange, etc.; 1 p. fol.
As appears from the English Province Archives, Ledger Wn, ff. 81-84,
f. 142, Maryland Accounts, and other particualr accounts, these bills of exchange
are sent over to the credit of children at school in St. Omer's and other houses;
but that of Father Hingdon's is to defray his expenses on the voyage with Father
George Hunter to Maryland, in 1759.
1779.
Janry. 5. [Portabacco Creek:]
By Rd. Bolton for part of
gates's [?] land sold to Clem. Mudd -- £300 currency, 2 hogshead tobacco
2043 crop at £10 ct [?] £206 0. 6. .. .. .. .. .. 500. 6. 0 [?]
Md.-N.Y. Province Archives, carton DB, G. Hunter and alii, day book 2,
f. 31.
by Thomas Hughes of the same society
Cleveland
The Burrows Brothers Company
London and New York
Longmans, Green, and Co.
1908
transcribed by Linda Boorom
| Section
II Original Organization, 1633-1773 7. Particualr bequests And Benefactions, 1727-1780 page 255
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1740-1779 |
seems in the first instance to have bound over his property for
the service of the missionaries under the obligation of a bond to
them ; then in due time to have discharged the obligation. The
quantity of land was 867 acres, of which certain parts mentioned
as still being Jesuit property at the beginning of the eighteenth
century amounted apparently to 400 or 468 acres. They were
named Gates' Hope, Gates' Purchase, Maidstone, and New
page 256
Brandford. In 1779, Jan. 5, a portion of Gates's land was
sold by Father Bolton.
| A. | 1740,
November 4. |
Range, containing by patent eight hundred and [sixty-seven] acres, lying
in Charles County, and whatever other land he may lay right or claim
too in the above said County . . . 4th day of November, Anno 1740.
Signed: Joseph Gates.
Witnesses: Richard Archbold, Robert Harding, Arnold Livers Signor
[scil. Senior, father (?) of Arnold Livers Junior, the Jesuit].
Endorsed: Joseph Gates bond for making over his land, with papers
included relating to the said land. In pencil: To Thomas Pulton.
The papers do not appear in this place, and the document itself is torn.
| Md.-N.Y Province Archives, N; original
bond, fol. sheet |
|
| B. | 1750, November |
Sr. I have droan out part of a tract of land called Hunt's
Venture: five lines of explanation, with the plat, which contains the
phrase: thence to a bounded beech tat I proveed for my Brother in
Law, Peter Carricio, belonging all so to Maidstone, and from thence to
an old locospost. Here follow the lines, etc.
In Father Hunters hand : Nov. 1750. Jos. Gates.
Endorsed by Cary [?]: Plate of Hunt's Venture in St. Mary's
Ibid., plat of Hunt's Venture in St. Mary's, addressed to Father G. Hunter,
and inscribed by him with the date and Gates's name.
C.
Memoranda concerning Gates's land.
The patent or certificate of David Driver's land (now in posses-
sion of Anderson, son of Jn. Anderson, who escheated the above land
of Drivers about the year 1721 or '22) calls for a white oak tree of
Gates's Hope, which if made out would recover about 18 acres. David
Drivers' land was taken up between the years 1668 and 1688.
Gates's Hope was taken up in 1668, and New Brandford in 1688.
Gates's Hope, 150 or 200 acres, if the above boundary can be proved.
Gates's Purchase, 30 at first, by vacant land taken up afterwards
made it 60 acres.
Maidstone, 20 acres.
New Brandford, 170 acres.
(b) Certificates of the bounds and courses of each tract to be gott from
Annapolis - of the courses of each, viz. of Gates's Hope, New Brandford,
Gates's Purchase and Maidstone.
| (b) What follows is a distinct note, same fe. |
Page 257
Messrs. Miles, Mudd and Bro. Jos. all agree on the beginning tree of
New Brandford.
Maidstone boundarys are known to Wm. Hagan, Peter Carico, Billy
Brien and their children.
Ibid., 12mo slip: note by Hunter
Ibid. W. Stuart, clerk, supplies a true copy, from Lib. No. 22, fol. 323, on a
1/2 p. 4to, of the lines of New Brandford, between Canterberry, Gates Hope, David
Drivers, to a bound upon the Couch Road that goes from St. Mary's to Major
Trowmans, containing 875 acres, as surveyed for Robert Gates, Jan. 27, 1686.
| D. |
1758, August
15. |
This accompanys the Baltimore County Saint, who waits upon
you in order to settle his affair. He begs you'll take care to do his
business in the safest manner, that he may be put to no farther trouble.
I would not have my name put in any of the deeds. I think Mr. Neale
[scil. Bennet Neale, S.J.], and some one else in case of his death, will be
more proper. I need not recommend Mr. Kingdone to your care any
mores, as I am persuaded you'll omitt nothing in your power to make his
passage agreeable to him.
| I am, Rd. Sir,
Your humble servant, |
|
| Aug. the 15,
1758 |
T.
DIGGES. |
4sh. etc.
Note scribbled, ibid.:
| William Hagan |
2d |
10. |
0. |
0. |
||
| 1 |
8. |
0. |
0. |
|||
| 1 |
50. |
0. |
0 |
|||
| 1 |
6. |
0. |
0 |
|||
| Marmaduke Semmes [?] |
2 |
22. |
0. |
0 |
||
|
|
||||||
| Mr. Kingdons |
2 |
5. |
0. |
0 |
||
| 2 |
10. |
10. |
0 |
|||
| Mr. Boarmans |
2 |
20. |
0. |
0 |
||
Ibid., Bb, letter of Father T. Digges, Aug. 15, 1756, to Rd. Mr. Ashby
at Portobacco, By Joseph Gates, with memoranda scribbled on the back: Bills
of Exchange, etc.; 1 p. fol.
As appears from the English Province Archives, Ledger Wn, ff. 81-84,
f. 142, Maryland Accounts, and other particualr accounts, these bills of exchange
are sent over to the credit of children at school in St. Omer's and other houses;
but that of Father Hingdon's is to defray his expenses on the voyage with Father
George Hunter to Maryland, in 1759.
| E. |
1779,
January 5. |
gates's [?] land sold to Clem. Mudd -- £300 currency, 2 hogshead tobacco
2043 crop at £10 ct [?] £206 0. 6. .. .. .. .. .. 500. 6. 0 [?]
Md.-N.Y. Province Archives, carton DB, G. Hunter and alii, day book 2,
f. 31.