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From: "Stanley W. Cowan" <>
Subject: Re: "Mount Hope," tract in Cecil County MD near Lewisville PA
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:46:50 -0500
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The deed says "one tract or parcell of land lying and being in Cecil County
called Mount Hope."

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gail Steckel, NET" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: "Mount Hope," tract in Cecil County MD near Lewisville PA


> this site mentions an estate called Mount Hope but it was in Frederick Co,
> not Cecil....
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/monocacy.htm
>
> ----- 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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