Pioneers of Old Monocacy Frederick County Maryland 1721-1743

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Pioneers of Old Monocacy
The Early Settlement of Frederick County,    Maryland 1721-1743
Softbound volume totaling
442
pages. Book is in excellent  condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
This is a definitive account of the land and the people of Old  Monocacy in early Frederick County, Maryland. The outgrowth of a project begun  by Grace L. Tracey and completed by John P. Dern, it presents a detailed account  of landholdings in that part of western Maryland that eventually became  Frederick County. At the same time it provides a history of the inhabitants of  the area, from the early traders and explorers to the farsighted investors and  speculators, from the original Quaker settlers to the Germans of central  Frederick County.
In essence, the book has a dual focus. First it attempts to  locate and describe the land of the early settlers. This is done by means of a  superb series of plat maps, drawn to scale from original surveys and based both  on certificates of survey and patents. These show, in precise configurations,  the exact locations of the various grants and lots, the names of owners and  occupiers, the dates of surveys and patents, and the names of contiguous land  owners. Second, it identifies the early settlers and inhabitants of the area,  carefully following them through deeds, wills, and inventories, judgment  records, and rent rolls.
Finally, in meticulously compiled appendices it provides a  chronological list of surveys between 1721 and 1743; an alphabetical list of  surveys, giving dates, page reference–text and maps–and patent references; a  list of taxables for 1733-34; and a list of the early German settlers of  Frederick County, showing their religion, their location, dates of arrival, and  their earliest records in the county.
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