Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 08:33:53 -0500 From: "David R Masters" <dmasters@mastnet.net> To: MDGEN-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <01bd80cf$454e8000$8cc141ce@david-r-masters> Subject: Re: WASHINGTON D.C.-"SCOTLAND" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit According to a book on our family history, MASTERS FAMILY HISTORY 1691-1989, Ninian Beale, of Largo, Fifeshire, in 1652, patented a large amount of land in and around what is now Washington, DC for the purpose of settling Scots. The area became known as the Scot's 100. At one time I ran across a book in a library showing the tracts that the various Scots settled. I cannot recall the title..I did make a copy of the map in the book, and have it somewhere among my papers. My ancestor, William Masters Sr., eventually acquired a large area of land in what is now SW Washington DC and part of Prince Georges County in the early 1700's. Dave Masters dmasters@mastnet.net