New Facts and Old Families

A companion volume to This Was the Life: Excerpts from the Judgment Records of Frederick County Maryland 1748-1765 this is a compilation of materials relating to the inhabitants of some of the early towns of Frederick County Maryland. Chapters are devoted to the founding and establishment of the towns of Jefferson Middletown and Walkersville as well as the lost towns of Hamburgh Trammelstown and Monocacy while sub-sections deal with the history of some of the founding families and provide lists of the original owners of land. Based on original land records this work provides the only authoritative account of the actual layout plan and development of many of the towns and villages of the county.