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Subject: Re: Maryland Land Grant/Info on Cowick surname
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 01:14:55 EDT

In a message dated 00-06-11 16:45:24 EDT, writes:

<< Hi! I was wondering if any of you had ever heard of Cowick Hall. It was
a
tract of land granted to Thomas Wainwright in the county of Baltimore on
March 27, 1729. There were 236 acres in this tract. The source gave a
reference number:
PL7/239;ILB/82. The source was: Settlers of Maryland 1701-1730, by Peter
Wilson Coldham, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1996. I'm
wondering about the name of the tract and how it was named. >>

Tina -

Will check the land patent for you this weekend when I am at MD State
Archives. Patents from that time period (1715 and later) have actual survey
plats on file which show show the exact layout of the tract. It will not tell
have much information of a genealogical nature, except in unusual cases.

The premier reference for genealogy of Baltimore County families is
"Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759" by Robert Barnes. I don't have a copy
handy but can also check that for you on the weekend. I wouldn't expect to
find much since I just checked FTM CD 206 which has all of the abstracted
probate data for colonial MD from the MD Prerogative Court and could not find
any mention of Cowick or its variants.

Good luck -

John Polk
Havre de Grace MD

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