marjorie adams <marjea@wildblue.net> wrote: >The reason I continue to persist in this is my attempt to prove/disprove the >wife/wives of Richard Lockwood and thus his children and their parents. His >son Benjamin reported that he was raised at Trappe, the one near present day >Berlin. <snip> I applaud your enthusiasm, but at this point, I can only say that some questions don’t have answers within my data. The surviving records, while extraordinary in their completeness, also have limits; various odds and ends are missing, and clerical errors of one kind or another have misplaced or mis-described things (some of which I can overcome with a global perspective which allows correction of some single-point source mistake or omission). If I’ve overlooked something, to field your question about the many properties you list would basically require re-examining all of them - or Baltimore Hundred in toto - to look for a clue, which may not be there, anyway. Weeks or more of work, and prospective return on investment is very, very small. As a pragmatist who has also run into the end of the line in similar cases, I just don’t have any further suggestions. My bag of tricks is exhausted. All barrels have a bottom, and this one has been scraped. John

John wrote: <snip>If I've overlooked something, to field your question about the many properties you list would basically require re-examining all of them - or Baltimore Hundred in toto - to look for a clue, which may not be there, anyway. Weeks or more of work, and prospective return on investment is very, very small. As a pragmatist who has also run into the end of the line in similar cases, I just don't have any further suggestions. My bag of tricks is exhausted. All barrels have a bottom, and this one has been scraped. John, I understood from the email before the above that "Patrick's Discovery" as such is unidentifiable. I never intended for you to spend weeks looking at all the names and properties I listed. My thought was that perhaps with all your research some of what I have put together might ring a bell for you. Even though you have no further suggestions for me I must pursue gathering what is available about the general location where Richard Lockwood lived and there is so much I do not know that is in your database. Would you be able to tell me: How far south of St. Martin's River did Showell's "Cropton" extend in today's terms? Where was Walton's "Neighborhood" in relation to Trappe? Where was/were the "Patrick's Lott" (s) detailed previously? Could a lease be acquired for oneself AND heirs, and then be "sold" for profit by the heirs? By 1740 when a property of 100A+ is found on plats.net assigned to an individual was it usually vacant up to that time or was it usually part of a larger property patented earlier? (I have seen deeds where the surveyor adds some vacant contiguous property but usually under 50A.) After 1776 when the properties patented in MD came under DE jurisdiction, was there any attempt to transfer original documents to DE or did they remain in the MD records? Oh to have access to your data! There has been discussion on this list in the past about your plans for making you data available for others to research. Do you have any definite plans to do so? You have compiled a treasure. On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:51 AM, <Johnlyon0@cs.com> wrote: > marjorie adams <marjea@wildblue.net> wrote: > > >The reason I continue to persist in this is my attempt to prove/disprove > the > >wife/wives of Richard Lockwood and thus his children and their parents. > His > >son Benjamin reported that he was raised at Trappe, the one near present > day > >Berlin. <snip> > > I applaud your enthusiasm, but at this point, I can only say that some > questions don't have answers within my data. The surviving records, while > extraordinary in their completeness, also have limits; various odds and ends > are missing, and clerical errors of one kind or another have misplaced or > mis-described things (some of which I can overcome with a global perspective > which allows correction of some single-point source mistake or omission). > If I've overlooked something, to field your question about the many > properties you list would basically require re-examining all of them - or > Baltimore Hundred in toto - to look for a clue, which may not be there, > anyway. Weeks or more of work, and prospective return on investment is > very, very small. > > As a pragmatist who has also run into the end of the line in similar cases, > I just don't have any further suggestions. My bag of tricks is exhausted. > All barrels have a bottom, and this one has been scraped. > > John > *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Marjorie "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."~ Henry Van Dyke