CT-288

Expectation

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Last Updated: 10-29-2003

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INVENTORY FORM FOR STATE HISTORIC SITES SURVEY

6NAME HISTORIC

Expectation AND/OR COMMON

.flLOCATION STREET & NUMBER

Fowler Road CITY. TOWN

·:Prince Frederick STATE

MD

DcLASSIFICA TION

CATEGORY OWNERSHIP _DISTRICT _PUBLIC

X-BUILDING(Sl X.PRIVATE

_STRUCTURE _BOTH

L v1c1N1TY OF Dares

STATUS

X..OCCUPIED

_UNOCCUPIED

_WORK IN PROGRESS

_SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE -- _OBJECT _IN PROCESS _YES: RESTRICTED

_BEING CONSIDERED _YES: UNRESTRICTED

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DOWNER OF PROPERTY NAME

Maynard L. Miles STREET & NUMBER

Fwler Road CITY. TOWN

Prince Frederick - VICINITY OF

.IJLOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC. Calvert County Courthouse STREET & NUMBER

Main Street (MD 765) CITY. TOWN

Prince Frederick

II REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE

DATE

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

COUNTY

Calyert

PRESENT USE

_AGRICULTURE _MUSEUM

_COMMERCIAL __ PARK

_EDUCATIONAL JCPRIVATE RESIDENCE

_ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS

_GOVERNMENT _SCIENTIFIC

_INDUSTRIAL _TRANSPORTATION

_MILITARY _OTHER

Telephone # : 535-1542

STATE , Zl.p code MD 20678

Liber #: Folio #:

STATE

MQ

_FEDERAL -5TATE _COUNTY ,_LOCAL

DEPOSITORY FOR

SURVEY RECORDS

CITY. TOWN STATE

II DESCRIPTION

CONDITION CHECK ONE CHECK ONE

_EXCELLENT

X.GOOD

_FAIR

_DETERIORATED

_RUINS

_UNEXPOSED

X.UNALTERED

_ALTERED

X....ORIGINAL SITE

_MOVED

DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

" Expectation" may have originate~ as a smaller house, but evidence pointing to this possibility is not conclusive.

DATE __ _

In its present form, this tvo-story frame house is joined by a one-story kitchen on the east. The.rnndormered gable roofs of both parts run east-vest. The main, south-facing block measures three bays Wi.de by two bays deep.

Two exterior chimneys on the vest gable end beat the first floor 1

parlors only. The placement of the chimneys does not divide'this space equally. The south chimney is centered on the vider front parlor, while the north chimney is located near the northwest corner of the house. The latter chimney is built of fieldstone, vi.th a brick stack above the shoulders. The former chimney is constructed of brick laid in an Al~tretcher pattern vith two randomly placed rovs of headers. Two brick courses step out to form a water table along the face of the chinmey, and ten brick courses step in at the shoulders. Both narrow chimney stacks stand free from the house above their shoulders, but are attached to the overhanging roof. This gable end is fenestrated by a 4/4 sash vindov to the south on the second noor, and a four-pane casement vindow in the attic, positioned north of center.

The south side of the house features tvo 2/2 sash vindows to the west followed byBa door on the east. This side of the kitchen is lighted by two 6/6 sash vindows. A plain shed-roofed porch shelters the central three of this total of five bays. The second floor of the JD&in block is lit by two 6/6 sash vindovs, leaving the central bay unfenestrated. The north side of the second floor is lighted similarly. A single 4/4 sash vindow lights the east gable end of the second floor. It is placed just north of center. A small square vindow in the east gable end of the kitchen attic is presently blocked.

Simple lapped clapboards sheath the house. It rests on a fieldstone foundation. Plain one-story shed-roofed additions running along the north sides of both blocks, added in recent years, do not detract from the original house.

11Expectatiods" floor plan consists of a stair hall along the east and '.two parlors to the west. The second floor reflects this plan vith an additional tiny room in the southeast corner over the stair. The stair starts at the south end of the hall along the east lnlll. After a straight run followed by a landing, a seeolld straight run set in the opposite~direction of, but alongside the first run, originaliy completed the stair. This was recently changed so the second set of steps now runs perpendicular to the original set from the landing.

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II SIGNIFICANCE

l"ERIOD AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW

_PREHISTORIC --ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING __,.LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _RELIGION

-1400-1499 __ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC _CONSERVATION _LAW _SCIENCE

_1500-1599 --AGRICULTURI; _ECONOMICS _LITERATURE _SCULPTURE

_ 1600-1699 :x.ARCHITECTURE _EDUCATION _MILITARY _SOCIAUHUMANITARIAN

_1700-1799 __ART _ENGINEERING _MUSIC _THEATER

-X1800-1899 _COMMERCE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PHILOSOPHY _TRANSPORTATION

_1900- _COMMUNICATIONS _INDUSTRY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _OTHER (SPECIFY)

_INVENTION

SPECIFIC DATES BUILDER/ARCHITECT

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

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According to extensive research by Ailene Hutchins, this property was once part of a larger tract owned by Fdwin R. Fisher. This~land adjoined the John E. Harms tract known to be 180 acres of "Expectation," originally granted as 350 acres to Francis Billingsley in 1663. The tract on which the house "Expectation" stands may be part of the re­maining 170 acres from the original grant. Different sections of the land stayed in the Talbott family until 1811 and the Billingsley family until 1858. After these two sales, the land was divided many times. It is impossible to trace the plot associated with the extant house.

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i!iMAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

"Then and Bow," Prince Frederick Recorder Ailene Hutchins, May 7, 15, & 22; 1975

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IIiJGEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY--------

VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION

LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES

STATE COUNTY

STATE COUNTY

mFORM PREPARED BY NAME I TITLE

ORGANIZATION DATE

STREET & NUMBER TELEPHONE

CITY OR TOWN STATE

The Maryland Historic Sites Inventory was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature, to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA, 1974 Supplement.

The Survey and Inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringe­ment of individual property rights.

RETURN TO: Maryland Historical Trust The Shaw House, 21 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401 (301) 267-1438

PS· 1108

#? Description cont'd (CT-288)

The banister, which resembles a flattened mushroom in shape, is supported by rectangular balusters. The newel cap and post are square. A Greek ovolo with astragal molding outlines the triangle formed by the side of the stair. Step-end boards with a concave outline were added by the present owners. A beaded-board batten door leads to a closet under the stair. Both mantelpieces are late Federal in character. They are almost identical, although the front parlor mantel features additional rectangular blocks whose centers have concave corners. Deeply cut Greek ovolo moldings form the mantel shelves.

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There was once, in Calvert book on the Talbott family, County, a tract called John, son of Richard and Expectation. Early records Elizabet" Ewen Talbott, show that it was first surveyed, married farah Mears. Stein, in in 1663, for Francis Billingsley, his boo-~, staUd that John and when its description stated that Sarah Mears Talbott lived at it consisted of 350 acres "near Expectation, near the Mears the Clifts in the woods." A homestead. The register of the patent for it was issued to Cl if ts Monthly Meeting Billingsley in 1664, and in recorded the birth of Sarah, 1708, the land was owned by daughter of John an.d Sarah Sarah, widow of John Talbott. Meares, in 1673, and also said Francis Billingsley also received that John Talbott, husband of a patent for Comehill -- 350 Sarah Mears Talbott, died in acres -- in 1663, and this, too, 1707, and was buried "at the was owned by Sarah Talbott in Qifts." Sarah Talbott later 1708. married William Allnutt.

Most of us ·know that When John Talbott wrote Comehill, now the home of his will, he left his wife "the

.- Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sinclair, plantation where I now live" 1 is situated on the road from for life, then to his son, i -_ Parran towards Emanuel Thomas. He left Expectation

-- · -J ·_ Olurch. It will be open to to his sons, Richard and : . visitors on 4 May, the date of Daniel. No further reference to ;;;:·the Maryland House and Expectation was found until

R. Brightwell, who sold part of it to James E. Degges and his wife, Sophie. Mrs. Degges then sold it, in 1951, as 176 11~ acres. to Harry 0. Dove and his wife, Emma M., from whom Benjamin R. Walls and his wife, Mary E., of Prince George County, bought it in 1955. The Walls sold it, in 1960,-to Elmer M. Jackson III and his wife and John E. Hanns Jr. and his wife. then of Anne Arundel County. Mr. and Mrs. Harms are the present owners of this tract, on which, I believe, their home is located, off Wilson Road.

Benajmin K. Talbott, whose will was probated in 1889, left to his son, Joseph F., the land he had bought from Lemuel Fowler, in trust for Benjamin T. Talbott, grandson of Benajmin K. Benjamin K. Talbott was the son of Joseph and Rebecca Freeman Talbott, . Garden Tour of Calvert 1771, when the Calvert County

County. My research leads me debt books showed it as 350 to.believe that Expectation was acres owned as follows:

·:.-~-~._not farfromComhilLAn 1873 Benjamin Harris-100 acres;

_ and a brother of Henry F.

· map of Calvert shows several - Joseph Talbott Jr. -- 100 acres;· county roads which are no John Talbott -- 50 acres;

·. ic>nger totally in existence. Thomas Talbott - 100 acres. ~'Near Comehill, there was a By 1782, land by that name !Dad which ran towards the had increased to 511 acres, and present Clay Hammond Road the owners were: Mary

·and came out on to the present Gray -- 100 acres; Benjamin Dares Beach Road. It is Harris -- 160 acres; -Henry possible that this road once led Scott -- 80 acres; Philip to Expectation, for land Talbott - 94 acres and Thomas records show that part of the Talbott -- 77 acres. After this land now owned by Mr. and time, parts of Expectation may Mrs. John E. Harms Jr. was have been given other names called Expectation. by their owners, but in 1811,

c"- .-,.:--~: •• --'-''-~F<-~-::":"-'= Francis Billingsley's will, · the name again appeared when _ -;~~~~~~i-S¥Ji;.~ probated in 1695, gave no land Thomas Talbott sold William

names, but he did name his A 11 nut t 9 6 acres of wife Susannah and his Expectation, which may have daughter, Rebecca Birckhead been that owned by Philip as heirs of his real estate. Talbott in 1782. Still later, in Records of the Monthly 1870, William Hutchins and his Meetings of the Clifts show wife Rebecca and George that Francis Billingsley was Chambers and his wife Minerva buried "at the Clifts burying sold Gustavus Crane of Calvert ground." Colonel Thomas County "180 - acres called Billingsley, grandson ot Expectation." The deed stated Francis, is buried at St. Paul's that the land was that "where Church, Prince Frederick, Chambers lately resided, where his tombstone adjoining the lands of Robert inscription gives his dates as W. Yoe and Henry F. Talbott." 17 6 9-184 2. His estate It had been sold to Chambers settlement described his land as in 1858 by one Louis Tinges, 250 acres (no name given) and was apparently mortgaged "near the heirs ·of John to Hutchins, who obtained the Hutchins, Frank Hutchins and land at a sheriff's sale in 186g. John Yoe." It was sold, in This was the same year that

·1853, to 'Thomas B. Billingsley,_ part of the Billingsley land was 'son 'of' Colonel Thomas~ Later~=: -:•-11equired by Samuel_ B. Wilson,

_ part of the Billingsley land was and earlier'" references to the """'acquired by Richard Hance Billingsley tract also named the

who, in 1867, sold Lemuel G. Yoe family as owners of Fowler 80 acres of the· adjoining property. Gustavus property. Records also show Crane bought an additional 80 -:' that, in 1869, Samuel ,.-~~ _,- acres in 1885 from the heirs o_C ,_;_

Talbott. He was a descendant of John and Sarah Mears .Talbott, -and · his gr8.ndson, Benjamin T., lived quite near Cornhill. References to the Talbott lands and adjoining properties will appear later.

The family of Gustavus Crane appeared in Calvert County records before 1870, when Crane bought part of Expectation, and more about the family will appear next week.

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.-:.~. daughter, Rebecca Birckhead been that owned by Philip ·~ .. tS hei _ of his real estate. Talbott in 1782. Still later. in _ ... _ Records of the Monthly 1870, \Villiam Hutchins and his

Meetings o the Clifts show wife Rebecca and George that Francis illingsley was Chambers and his wife Minerva

' ·""uried «at the ifts burying sold Gustavus Crane Calvert round." Colon Thomas County "180. cres called

I. Billingsley, gran n of Expectation." e deed stated

Francis, is buried at St. aul's that the d was that "where Church, Prince Frede ·ck, Cha ers lately resided, where his tombsto a· ming the lands of Robert inscription gives his dates as . Yoe and Henry F. Talbott." 176 9-18 4 2. His es tat t had been sold to Chambers settlement described his Ian as in 1858 by one Louis Tinges, 250 acres (no name ven) and as apparently mortgaged "near the heirs John to Hu hins, who obtained the Hutchins, Frank H chins and land at heriff's sale in 1869. John Yoe." It as sold, in This was e same year that 1853, to Tho B. Billingsley, part of the · lingsley land was son of Col el Th·omas. Later, acquired by Sa el B. Wilson, part of t Billingsley land was and earlier· ref ere ces to the

by Richard Hance Billingsley tract also amed the who, i 1867, sold Lemuel G. Yoe family as o ers of Fowler 80 acres of the adjoining property. Gustavus property. Records also show Crane bought an additional 80

in 1869 Samuel acres in 1885 from the e· of Wilson o taine 180 acres Robert . oe. known as the Billingsley farm. When Gustavus Crane died A deed of 1887 also mentions in 1894, his land was sold to Billingsley property, for then, Charles E. Hall as 260 acres.

J Dr. Thornton Dorsey had Hall owned the land until owned "part of the Billingsley 1906, when he sold part of it estate adjoining Dr. Thornton to Clarence M. Gott and the Dorsey, Elijah R. Cranford, remainder to David Brooks. John Freeland, Joe Yoe and The land sold to Clarence M.

i Lemuel Fowler, which Richard Gott was described as 50 acres ).._Hance. bought and which, at "of the home farm of Gustavus

'.ichard Rance's death, was Crane lying west of the east sold to Dr. Thornton Dorsey." side of the meadow", plus 80 This property, too, was near acres, which Crane had also Cornhill. owned, called "the Reed place,

Although 350 acres called adjoining David. L Bowen." Expectation were patented to The 130 acres sold to David Francis Billingsley, another Brooks was that part "east of small part of it was owned by the meadow running from John Meers (Mt>ars) of Calvert David I. Bowen's land to the County. The will ofMPars «of land of. the late Richard Anne Arundel Countv" 'wa« Roberts:· Davie Brooks and written a,;d probated in 1675. his wif;. .\nr;,e, mortg~:·;ed In it. he r:amed his only child, tht.r. pr"; . rt'.: to Thomas Sarah. wl-- was to receive. at Par .. m .. ·· · · ::; the land. in ~e 16, St>n·ral tracts. twa" of 19L. to . · 1n Mackall and \\h1ch v.ere "Mrers -- 330 his \•ife c:ie. ~:)y 1930, t~e

-~ acres ·· in Calvert County Macka!'-- :;d their acreagl':' to ~. adjoining my brother-in-law Julius G. Hall and his brot r,

> John Homewood", and "30 Amos. Eventually, the acres of Expectation in Calvert property, plus ·Other land County." According to Shirk's 1warby. was obtained by Duke

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Then and Now The family name of Crane Crane family have yet been

was mentioned last week, in found, but perhaps they were connection with land called buried in a family graveyard as Expectation. Skordas' list of yet undiscovered. .

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::~~;~~:;;:_'.d~~:~?~d.0$~:·.~.:c:&~?:z~;/;t·-·:-Y.~t:-::~_ ~--: ·.-:~ ;:~'"-;:-;,.;;·_~~};,~: was transported to Maryland in the heirs of John H. Berry, the . 1673. No members of the heirs of William Hall and the family appear on Calvert's 1733 heirs of Frederick Roberts," list of taxables, but by 1782, a while the other was "80 acres Williams Crane was listed in adjoining David I. Bowen and Eltonhead Hundred with one George F. Hardesty." These male over 16 and 5 total white two tracts were close to each inhabitants. By the time of the other and were sold to Charles 1800 census of Calvert, E. Hall, whose name was Thomas and William Crain (so mentioned last week. Some, if spelled) were listed in Christ not all, of this property is now Church parish, and the ledger owned by John E. Harms Jr. books of John and Joshua In last week's article, the Sedwick showed Sampson family of Robert Yoe was Crane as a customer in 1800. listed as owners of property

Land records of 1807 show adjoining that bought by that John and Priscilla Gustavus Crane.. In 1850, Dilworth of Frederick County, Robert W. Yoe. 31, Mary E. -

, ..• -". ---· Maryland sold one George W. 35, Robert E. - 2 were living in Crane part of a tract in Calvert household No. 309 of the which had been devised by second district, next to William Francis Williams to his and Rebecca Hutchins. By

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daughters. No description was 1860, Robert W. Yoe. 42, his given, but a later deed, in wife, Ann - 33, and their 1810, showed that Joseph children: Robert · 12, John - 5, Fowler sold George W. Crane and Mary 11 months, were in four acres called part of No. 360, near William A.

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Ireland's Beginning. The land Parran . No. 359, Dennis B. M. i began "at the branch below the Dixon - · No. 361, M. L. f jail," which was the dividing Hawley, Methodist minister - f line between the lands of No. 362, and Thomas Hutchins 1

Francis and Dunbar. Williams. - No. 363. Robert W. Yoe had 11

It ran ''to intersect the main died by 1880, but his son, Dr. road at a place called Hickory Robert E. Yoe, was still in the Gate leading from Holland county, in household No. 186, i Point to the courthouse, then with his wife, Emma M; - 24, ! to the lot George W. Crane and children Ella May· 3, Mary l obtained from Stephen Johns, W. - 3, and Emma M. · t. J. h.. l and west to the land Francis Cranford, his son, Bernard, and J Williams left to his daughters, others were in No. 181, several 1 and with that land to the black families lived nearby and, I northwest comer ot the in No. 191. was the family of courthouse lands and to the John S. Armiger. beginning." Robert E. Yoe died in 1881,

No other reference to the and his estate settlement Crane name was round until occurred in September, 1882. · the 1850 census of Calvert. At In that settlement, there was l that time, household No. 212 the record of a mortgage to in the second district consisted William V. Wilburn for tb.iee c; or Priscilla Crane • 60, Edward tracts o( land. One tract was~

, H. • 38, James J. ~ 36, Sarah - Jot - No. 3 oC the estate of~ ,;,.;{-_~- 29, Priscilla ~ 2!>,-GuStavus - 22 -~°'Robert W .,,.Yoe c;on~g· of: ...

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settlement, there was ·" the record of a mortgage to :. William V. Wilburn for three !

~~~~~~-..!:tra~cts of land. One tract was ""'"' lo 3 of the estate of Robert W. nsisting of

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G. Bowen - No. 211, and "adjoining Ann M. Yoe, Mary Samuel Skinner - No. 213. By E. Eldridge, Gustavus Crane 1852, Edward Crane bought an and Gabriel Skinner, which acre of land from James Robert E. Yoe bought from Hooper, whim Hooper had Aldred Reed and his wife, obtained from George· R. Betsy, in 1879," while the Cranford, by petition of John third parcel was 14 acres "near W. Stockwell. The land was Huntingtown, where Robert E. said to be on the main road Yoe lives, which was purchased and was bounded by the land from John S. Armiger and his of Ethelbert Freeland (who wife, Sarah, in 1876." lived between Prince Frederick Various witnesses were and Dares Beach), and was land called upon, and one of them, "where Crane has erected a Young Hardesty, said that storehouse." No other Yoe's widow and her children reference to the storehouse was were then living with her found, but when Edward Crane father, in Frederick County. A died, unmarried, in 1887, that commission was appointed to one acre was sold to Webster evaluate the land, and it was Tabbs, a black man, who lived sold. The 14 acres where Yoe near the present site of the lived were purchased by Eliza -~~~~.;;:.,,.+c:-,,.,,:;;,,:;...,"';,-'"·""''-::ir>';;,::·_,:_.··: :"i-:c;;,":'.:~-o.S;:;,,;';_...;~z:~;:::c Calvert County fair grounds. J., wife of Virgil C. Cox; the Since there once existed, at the 80-acre tract was sold to corner of the Dares-Wilson Gustavus Crane, and the estate Road, a building once used as inherited from Robert W, Yoe the post office there, perhaps it was laid off for 162 acres, was originally Edward Crane's allotted to the widow, storehouse. Margaret E., as "in Sandy

In 1860, Edward H. Crane· Botton., beginning on the 47, and his brothers and sisters, public road from Gabriel except for James J. and his Skinner to the brick house on mother, Priscilla, were shown the land of Dr. Thornton -- ----- -·­in household No. 573. James J. Dorsey." It. ran on "to the was shown, alone, in No. 591. comer of Mrs. Eldridge, to Dr. Near Edward Crane were Dorsey's line, to Reuben .. ·--­Elizabeth Alton • No. 570, Bowen, to Young Hardesty and James Catterton · No. 571, to the beginning," and a plat Virgil Brown (black) · No. 4 72, was included, as surveyed by Young Chase (black)· No. 574, Joseph W. Talbott. while Ethelbert Freeland was That same year, John F. (or shown in No. 578. James T.) Yoe, brother of Rboert E., Crane's neighbors were James mortgaged his share of his Ross - No. 589, William I. father's estate. It was described Bowen .. No. 590, and Gideon ~ 173IA acres "at the corner of ~·.-~.·.-·'

Allnutt - No. 592. By 1880, the land of Lemuel G. Fowler,

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Edward - 69, Sarah • 60, Ann M. Yoe," of which 521h Priscilla - 55, and Gustavus · acres were "subject to the 52. Nearby, in No. 50 was dower of Ann M. Yoe." The

~[:~:~:~n3~:~:::~l:~i~~;~~-:;~*~:;:£~;s;;E:~~:~~'=·:s=~~-s:=· Edward Crane, mention was . . . · · ,. .. ,,, · · ,.,::..".~ ... , .. , -"' made that Sallie (Sarah), a - -sister, had died, unmarried, in · ·· · · 1888. The only other brother - .. -. ·· ·· listed, besides Gustavus, was George L., while the sisters still living were Priscilla, unmarried, and Annie M., who had married Samuel Skinner prior to 1850.

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~•t:UUU2itt. .Margaret E ~ "'" H j """v ..... ' In 1860, Edward H. Cran~_ ·• as .m Sandy 47, and hi.§ brothers and sisters Bottom, beginning on the exeept for James J. and hi~ public road from Gabriel mother, Priscilla, were shown Skinner to the brick house on in household No. 573. James J. the land 9f Dr. Thornton was shown, alone, in No. 591. Dorsey." It ran on .. to the Near Edward Crane were corner of Mrs. Eldridge, to Dr. r-- beth Dorsey's line, to Reuben

' Alton - No. 57o, Bowen, to Young Hardesty and .. s Catterton · No. 571 Virgil Brown (black). No. 472: to the beginning," and a plat Young Chase (biack). No. 574, was included, as surveyed by while Ethelbert Freeland was Joseph W. Talbott. shown in No. 578. James That same year, John F. (or Crane's neighbors were James T.) Yoe, brother of Rboert E., Ross - No. 589, William I. mortgaged his share of his Bowen . No. 590, and Gideon father's estate. It was described Allnutt . No. 592. By 1880, as 1731;., acres "at the corner of James Crane was not shown the land of Lemuel G. Fowler, but the family of Edward w~ Joseph W. and Henry F. shown in household No. 52. Talbott," and ran "to the Their ages were as follows: public road which divides said . Edward - 69, Sarah - 60 land from the dower land of Priscilla . 55, and Gustavus : Ann M. Yoe,:: of_ which 521h 52. Nearby in No 50 was acres were subject to the Dennis B. Gott, whiie William l dow~r of Ann M. Yoe." The Hall was shown in No. 51. \- . ~.I!;f EN Page A . 4 I .

In the estate settlement of Edward Crane, mention was -¥'····'·.·\<o-x:~~~~;,,:,,~~:..:Pi":::-o.t-..:.~,:.<,~-'~·:« •. ~·:'.f-,~-~=-~:;.::;;;,~~....,.__~'<'i.iiii;;;;::,~¢..,;.;c..-a"'-:::::·

~:i iEt ~~li~~~~~lh~~ ~{:;;g;.~;;t~fT~en . ·,,Continued From Page A· 31 11-ha, ,PS-.isted, besides Gustavus, was ' :Jeorge L., while the sisters still 162 acres which Margaret E. iving were Priscilla, unmarried Yoe, widow of Robert E., .rnd Annie M., who had - · obtained was sold in 1890 by narried Samuel Skinner prior -· .: Margaret, who had then o 1850. · - - ·· become the wife of James H.

. ~tavus . Crane ~ied in 8 -nmamed, and his estate ett.-.Jent showed that his >rother, George L., was then ving in Ohio, and his sister "riscilla, was still unmarried: illnie M. Skinner, another ?ster, had died, but her :iildren were John W. Skinner; .1Jia M., wife of Cephas H. -0wen; Frances R., widow of unes R. Hutchins; Sallie A., ife of Cephas Bowen Jr.; nnie V., wife of Calvin W. mmons; and Alice G., wife of ho-mas J. Young. No mbstones for members of the

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Hardesty. A deed of October, 1892,

recorded that Ann M. Yoe of Calvert County, Mary E. Eldridge and her husband, Emory 0. of Washington, D.C., John F. Yoe and his wife,

-... -_,, ···- - ...... --· Anna, of Dillon, Montana, sold David L Bowen 300 acres, being .. the real estate of Robert W. Yoe, late of Calvert County, allotted to John F.

l'.-oe and Mary .t.. Yoe, adjoining Gustavus Cane, John T. Hutchins, John Freeland~ Dr. Thornton Dorsey and Fr .. mk Hardesty." David I. Bowen, by his will of 1906, left this property to his daughters, Cora 'W. Cranford and Maey E. Wilburn. Mrs. Cranford purchased the interest of her sister rn 1909~ when the land was then said to adjoin that of Walter H. Alton,

- William H. Freeland, the heirs of John T .. Hutchins, the heirs of David Brooks, Clarence M. Gott, and Webster Tabbs.

Mrs. Cranford and her husband, Bernard L., sold this tract, in 1924, to Joseph C. Webster, from whom Wick

Parran obtained it, in 1927. Then, in 1948, it was sold to Goldia B. Shaw of Prince George County, and in 1951, Louis L. Goldstein bought it at a public sale and later sold it to Harold D. Bailey. Otto Lowe Jr. purchased it from Bailey in 1961, and Edwin R. Fischer became the owner of the 300 acres in 1965. Tax maps show this property near that of S. Chester Buckler and John E. Harms Jr., so perhaps it, too, was once part of the original Expectation.··

Other family names were involved with land around, or J>art of, Expectation, about whom there will be more next week.

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~Ip Then and Now ~S&B£fHifiK&tlM'1titrn By AILENE HUTCHINS

Land in and around the tract once called Expectation involved several family names. One such was that of Robert E. Yoe, whose estate settlement was referred to lsat week. In that settlement, Young Hardesty appeared to testify, and his land adjoined that of the Yoe family.

Young Hardesty was born in 1824, and in 1881, he purchased 215 acres from George P. Ross and bis wife Drusilla, and David I. Bowen and his wife Margaret. The

·- tract was near Tillington and ,,_ .· • _ - . Clay Hammond, "adjoining -: - ''~:';Robert E. Yoe; Reuben

-· . -:x.·l Bowen Joseph Bowman Sarah · · · :_r'i Skinne; and others." When it

,,.;....:__ · ~- i!;"J; was sold to Hardesty, it was described as "the estate of James Ross, late, which by will be left to his wife, Maria J., for life." No record was found to

~ indicate . from whom Ross had llCQUired the property.

household No. 154, the home. of George Younger, as farm manager. He was then unmarried, but by 1860, he and his wife Annie, and their sons, John · 5, and Franklin - 5 months, had moved to the first district, near Alexander Somervell and Thomas R. Tongue. In 1880, the Hardesty family had returned to the second district, where they were listed in household No. 62. Young Hardesty was then 56 years old, his wife Anne E. was 46, and their children were John R. - 26, Frank G. - 20, Sarah V. - 15 and Annie L. -10. At this time, the families of William I. Bowen, George H. Denton and I. R. Harper were listed nearbv.

Young -Hardesty died in 1902 and his widow, Ann E., died in 1915. Both are buried at Wesley Cemetery in Prince Frederick, --as is their son, G. Frank (1860-1943) and his

James Ross, aged 53, and wife, Cora V. (1864-1937).

Frederick County, Maryland. In 1905, Mr. Hardesty and his wife Cora V. sold the property to Joseph H. Ennis and his wife Kate. Later, in 1923, the land -was sold at public sale to Arthur W. Dowell, who in tum sold it to James P. Layne and

acres surveyed in 1665 for . Francis Billingsley, perhaps it was acquainted by James Ross. An examination of tax maps will show that most of the lands described in these last few articles on Expectation lie between Clay Hammond Road

Elizabeth - 57, were listed on The family had lived on the the 1850 census for Calvert's land bought in 1881, and in second district in household 1915, after the death of their No. 101. Nearby were Dr. mother, the heirs sold James A. William McDaniel - No. 98, Dalrymple a small parcel of 8314 Margaret Dare - No. 99, acres, "beginning at the William Tucker - No. 100, intersection of the lot of Mrs. William I. Bowen - No. 102 and C. C. Bird and the public road George Dowell - No. 103. Since I e a d i n g a c r o s s CI a y other land records indicate that Hammond." The same day, the Dr. McDaniel's land was at one remaining 208 acres were sold end of the old Clay Hammond to Ernest Rawlings. In 1920, Road (near Bowen's Florist), Ernest W. Rawlings and his and William Bowen's land was wife Sarah conveyed 104 acres also on Clay Hammond Road, of the same tract to D. Ray

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his wife Nettie B. The- tract is now, I believe, owned by Edwin R. Fischer, who bought another part of the Yoe estate in 1965.

reached from the present Rawlings and his wife Brissie. It would now seem, from entrance to Clay Hammond The land was said to be on the this research, that Expectation from Dares Beach Road, it north side of the road and "ran may have gradually passed in would seem that the estate of to the boundary near the gate to the hands of several James Ross may have adjoined leading to the upper field" The different owners. At any rate, I William I. Bowan. However, other 104 acres were sold, in believe I have estabished proof also in the second district in 1923, by Ernest W. Rawlings that 180 acres of it do now 1850, in household No. 313 to John W ~ Kent and his wife belong to Mr. and Mrs. John E. were Elizabeth Ross • 50, Agnes, except for a 1A acre Harms. As to the remaining James Ross - 22, and George P. parcel sold to Clarence M. 170 acres from the original 350 Ross - 20. Robert W. Yoe was GotL ,~- _ 6sted in No 309 William · . ,- ~ " ... ,.. - · -Hutchins m No. 310, Joseph ·. - -- In 1923, ~is Kent land was __ _ . ___ _ Hardesty _ in No. 311, Kinzy sold, at pubhc ~e~ to Jospeh . : S"unmons in No. 312, Dr. J. Lyons~ and his Widow, Viola·. Benjamin Williams in No. 314 S., 50!d it, in 1935, ~-Robert ~ ~

: -~and Rebecca Dalrymple in No.' _s. Cairns. The. ~mammg 104. · : .<

;;_.,,~•a1s. Bv 1860. JamesRoss-63 "':~. 0 fJ1e ~ngi~al 2~8 ~~;

and Wilson Road. The Clay Hammond Road.

which once ran all the way out to its upper end near Bowen's Florist, is still a pretty little country road, particularly at this time of the year. A drive back there will be worthwhile. for not only can you see part of the land of Expectation, but now there are bowers of beautiful dogwood, as evidenced by the picture accompanying this article. This picture was taken last year when it was in full bloom.

cuu u~ \Ile ota <.;lay .Hammond Road (near Bowen's F1orist), ~d wmi.am· Bowen's land was . also n Clay Hammond Road, reach from the present entrance Clay Hammond from Dares acb Road, it would seem th the estate of .' <; Ross may h adjoined \ .Jn I. Bow~. wever, also in the second distri 1850, in household No. were Elizabeth Ross -James Ross - 22, and Ross - 20. Robert W · oe was

to Ernest Rawlings. In . -20, Ernest W. Rawlings d his wife Sarah conveyed acres of the same tract D. Ray Rawlings and h" wife Brissie. The land was d to be on the north side o e road and "ran to the b ndary near the gate leadin the upper field" The oth 104 acres were sold, in

23, by Ernest W. Rawlings to John W. Kent and his wife Agnes, except for a 1..4 acre

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listed in No. , William Hutchins in . 310, Joseph In 19 , is Kent land was Hardesty . i No. 311, Kinzy sold, at public e, to Jospeh . Simmon in No. 312, Dr. J. Lyons, and his · ow, Viola Ben· m Williams in No. 314 S., sold it, in 1935, obert and ebecca Dalrymple in No. S. Cairns. The remainin 104 :;J • By 1860, James Ross. 63 acres f the original 208 a

_.,,,w~as,,,...,r!:vi:i:n::'.g::-"!1'::'n-1.. ...... -r?m--::0T""l....,,e-Jrwn1cb Ernest . awlingi;

...... •• t ., .,....,.,..,...., • ._, V '' &J.CU. aJ, Edwin R. Fischer, who bought another part of the Yoe estate in 1965.

It would now seem, from this research, that Expectation may have gradually passed in to the hands of several different owners. At any rate, I believe I have estabished proof that 180 acres of it do now belong to Mr. and Mrs. John E. Harms. As to the remaining 170 acres from the original 350

..a...... Vl.W., o; A.t.c:u.J.Ul.&UUU._. ~u·W· . which once ran all the way out ..., · to its upper end near Bowen's · F1orist, is still a pretty little · ~~t country road, particularly at £.;:c:t: -this time of the year. A drive ~'~~;· back there will be worthwhile, for not only can you see part of the land of Expectation, but now there are bowers of beautiful dogwood, as J evidenced by the picture accompanying this article. This picture was taken last year when it was in full bloom.

second district, and his wife bought in 1915 were sold by was then Mariah, aged 46. With him, in 1920, to D. Ray him was Elizabeth Ross • 66, Rawlings, as said earlier. In and also John, George. and 1926, D. Ray Rawlings and his Margaret Denton, aged 19, 17 wife Brissie A. sold that tract

~1~ .. ".='!.::; ~~.:: ;.;.~ ~~i:= ~~ ~~·~~'.If~~::ii_1';".zl'~IL-~'J~:,,.:..; .. and the children listed there purchased by Mr. Cairns in · were those by her first husband. Neighbors of James 1935, and he sold it, later, to Ross in 1860 were William H. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bowen • No. 587, Alexander Howard. After Mr. Howard's Fowler - No. 588, William I. death, Mrs. Howard and her Bowen • No. 590 and James daughter, Anne E. Windes and Crane • No. 591. This James her husband, Dudley E.,

became the owners of the · · -· · ·- ··-' · -Crane, readers may recall, was the>---ther of Gustavus Crane, original 215 acres of Young ,.. ~· __ _ wh land was discussed last Hardesty's estate, including the , -- -.. - . week. small parcel of 81% acres which __ ,_ - ----·-·-- -­

had once belonged to James - · · ·- -- ---- ·-· No record was found of the Andrew Dalrymple. Then, in

will of James Ross, who must 1965, Mrs. Howard and the -<-.'. · - - · ~ '.lave died- prior to 1880. Wmdes sold the entire tract to However, in that year, the F.clwin R. Fischer, expect for a ;econd district census showed parcel reserved by them, where

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Young Hardesty was living Margaret E. Yoe, widow of the second district in 1850, Robert E. Yoe, who later

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