The history of Montgomery county, Maryland, from its earliest settlement in 1650 to 1879 ..

\8 I--"^ ->\^0^i-= ^v.'^.•^\"&.'•%,^-•\S*:HT E HIST YOROFMONTGOMERY COUNTY,MARYLAND,FROM IT:Earliest Settlement in 1650 to 187!)— —The Early Land Grants. By whom patented. Their order of—atntd Present Owners. Local andSettlement General— —Events. Leading Incidents. Principal Towns,—Villages, &c. Its Soil, Products, andIndustries. Also,OF THE PROMINENT MEN OF THE COUNTY.SKETCHESDIRECTORY• Merchants, Manufacturers, Professors,Of Post Offices,Farmers, Tobacco Planters, Mechanics, Mills,and Churches.Colleges, Schools,APPENDIX,WITH ANof the Prominent Business HousesContaining a DescriptionGeorgetown.of Washington andAUTHENTICCOMPILED AND ARRANGED FROM SOURCES,BYY D,H. S. BOT.MARYLAND.MONTGOMERY COUNTY,CLARKSBURG,1879-. r/ifriaccording the Act of Congress, in the year 1879,Entered toBy T. H. S. Boyd,at Washington, D. C.In the Office of the Librarian of Congress,BALTIMORE \W. K. BOYLE & SON,PRINTERS.??L;mPREFACE.the citizensIn offering the present history to the public andCounty, for the publisherof Montgomery it appears necessarypresent the motive that induced him to undertake the publi-tocation.During the Centennial year of our National Independence,the President of the United States issued a Proclamation,to assemble in their respective towns andrequesting- the peoplecounties, and from obscurity and oblivion the incidentsrescueand events connected with the first century of the Nation.the ofPrevious to the issue of ...