Person:William Ewing (8)

The Cecil Whig, Elkton, 1883: Cecil Co., MD Saturday, December 8, 1883

The W. P. Ewing property, on east Main street, was sold under foreclosure of 

mortgage, by auctioneer Shockley, at the Court House door on Tuesday last. The lot and residence fronting on Main street, was purchased by Mr. N. P. Manly, for $2,950 and that fronting on High street with the store house thereon, w purchased by Mr. Dunbar Morgan for $850.

Saturday, February 14, 1885

Orphans' Court.

 The Orphans' Court of Cecil county was in session on Tuesday and Wednesday of this 

week.

 Sundry claims against deceased persons were duly examined and passed.

fourth account of W. P. Ewing, guardian J. A. P. Ewing;

West Nottingham Presbyterian Church Cemetery Colora, Cecil Co., Maryland

                Name

Lot # Last First Middle Birth Death Age Relationship

03.2003 Ewing William P. 2/14/1822 7/8/1903 Father 03.2003 Ewing Margaret E. 4/23/1821 12/8/1856 Mother// w/o W.P. Ewing 03.2003 Ewing Cora E. 1/4/1912

Driving Instructions: Take US Route 1 from the south and north towards Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland to Route 276. Go East on route 276 (Tome Highway) about 3 to 4 miles to Liberty Grove Road. Turn right onto Liberty Grove Road and the cemetery entrance is on the left. The cemetery lies between Liberty Grove Road and Fire Tower Road. 

EWING, WM P Age: 42 Sex: M Race: W Birthplace: MD Film No.: M7248 Page: 110 MSA S 1615- 2420

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   When researching Baltimore County before ca 1820, you will encounter two terms referring to an area of land. One of the terms is Hundreds and the other is parishes. Hundreds as a political subdivision date back to the Roman occupation of Britain.
   There are several variations of the original meaning of the term. The most commonly accepted is that it was an area that contained 100 families. Another variation is that it was an area that was large enough to raise an army of 100 men.
   From the late 1600s to early 1800s in Maryland the term was applied as a political subdivision of the county primarily for tax purposes and judicial affairs. The latter being, that there was a constable appointed for each hundred and a justice of the peace for each hundred. The 1790 and 1810 Federal census for Baltimore county, be at least partially broken down by hundreds. The equivalent term today for a hundred is an election district within the county.
   Although Maryland was founded by Catholics (the family of Lord Baltimore), its religion was dominated by Puritans in the 1650s and then later the Church of England. In are at June of 1692 the General assembly passed an act that essentially established the Church of England as the "state church", required the establishment of parish boundaries and also required each parish to establish a register of births, marriages, and deaths within the province.
   When Baltimore County was first settled, there were no roads, except a few Indian paths; thus, travel was mostly by water, and you will find persons styled in terms of where they lived. For example in early deeds, people are styled as: William Boulton of Bush River, Richard Ball of Patapsco, John Lee planter of Bush River. The early Hundreds were thus often named for rivers.
   When Baltimore County was fist formed, its boundaries ran from the ridge dividing the watershed of the Magothy and Patapsco Rivers around to the Sassafras River. Thus it included today's Cecil County, and Harford County, parts of Carroll, Anne Arundel, and Howard counties. Also since the early boundaries were not fixed, it probably also extended into Delaware and Pennsylvania. Cecil County was formed in 1674 at which point the northern eastern boundary of Baltimore County became the Susquehanna River.
   A formal boundary between Baltimore and Anne Arundel County was initially laid out in 1698.
   By 1698 is appears there were three hundreds in Baltimore county, the Patapsco Hundred (which ran from the south side of the Patapsco River to the north) the Gunpowder Hundred, and the Spesutia Hundred. The original county seat was at Spesutia Island off the Bush River. Apparently there was a town
   of Baltimore in this location in 1683. In 1707 the General Assembly directed that a t0wn be erected on 50 acres called "Taylors Choice" and that the county courthouse be erected there. This land was off the Gunpowder River. However in November 1712 an act of the Assembly directed that the courthouse be erected in the town of Joppa.
   There were three parishes established in Baltimore County in the 1690s.These were St Paul's, St Johns, and St Georges. The parish boundaries roughly corresponded to the boundarie

2. ↑ Certificate of Death of William P Ewing
   MSA SC 5458-58-1676.

   BOARD OF HEALTH (Death Record, Counties) MSA S1178
   Dates: 1903/07 Description: CE Accession No.: 50,274-1367 MSA No.: S
   1178-1417 Location: 0/70/13/25
   William P. Ewing 709003 CE