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From: "Gail Steckel, NET" <>
Subject: Re: "Mount Hope," tract in Cecil County MD near Lewisville PA
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:32:31 -0500
References: <009a01c28d9e$040b6500$75342541@frontiernet.net>


The MD Register of Historic Sites lists:

Mount Hope Prince George's County
1 Cheverly Circle
Cheverly
1978

and

Hopewell this one is in Cecil Co.
Little Elk Creek Road
Blake
1979

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stanley W. Cowan" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 1:28 PM
Subject: "Mount Hope," tract in Cecil County MD near Lewisville PA


> I am trying to learn the location of a tract in Cecil Co., MD, called
"Mount Hope." I believe it was on or very close to the PA-MD border, because
the owners, Robert Withers and Robert Holly," were involved in a boundary
dispute with my ancestor David Wherry of East Nottingham, PA, in 1729-1730.
>
> I have a copy of a deed dated March 21, 1723/4, for the sale of Mount Hope
by Mathias Van Bibber to Catherine and Mary Hollingsworth. Two years later,
Catherine Hollingsworth married Robert Withers. The starting point of the
metes and bounds in the deed is a "black oak tree standing on a high ridge
at the head of a valley or small branch falling into the east side of the
west branch of Elk River." I assume that the west branch of Elk River means
Little Elk Creek.
>
> I now have a question directed at anyone who lives in that area or is
familiar with its terrain. There is a road that leads west from Lewisville,
and then a mile or less out of town, another road branches off from it and
runs southwest into Maryland. My best guess as to the location of this "high
ridge" is just over the line near this road. Is there a spot in that area
that answers that description? (After 278 years, I don't expect that the oak
tree is still there. If it is, it should be an impressive specimen.)
>
> I guess an even better question is whether anyone knows the actual
location of Mount Hope?
>
> Stan Cowan
>
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