On October 10, 1750, Richard Smith had 44 acres of land he purchased from Notley Thomas surveyed. His plat showed he named it after himself - Smithfield. Middletown was laid out on this same land 16 years later by Michael Jesserong. On October 10, 1753, King George II of England granted a patent of 3100 acres to John Hawkins. It was called "Hawkins Peep-O-Day." Brunswick was later built on some of this land. On October 10, 1801, Richard Potts was appointed a judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals from Frederick County. On October 10, 1858, John Oliver Fisher, 16, was stabbed to death by Samuel Francis, in front of the Bethel AME Church on East Third Street. Francis was later convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 17 years and five months in the Maryland Penitentiary. The church is now known as Quinn Chapel AME. On October 10, 1860, The Examiner reported that William H. Daley, the local census marshall, had counted 8,054 residents of Frederick City: 2,980 white males; 3,377 white females; 558 free Negro males; 696 free Negro females; and 443 slaves of both sexes. This represented an increase of 2,464 people in the 10 years after the 1850 census. (That's a 44 percent increase. And locals today complain about the rapid growth of Frederick County.) On October 10, 1866, a tornado caused destruction at the west end of Patrick Street in Frederick. Damages were estimated at between $4,000 and $5,000, huge in that day. On October 10, 1898, the ladies of Grace Reformed Church in Frederick organized a Sewing Society. On October 10, 1972, John R. Cheatham sold Key Chevrolet to Merle L. Wise and Klare S. Sunderland. The franchise was later sold to the Fitzgerald group of dealerships. On October 10, 2006, Frederick County fire officials reacquired an historic hand pumper used to battle the blaze that destroyed the Courthouse in May 1861. The equipment had been built in the 1830. Local contributors put up the $16,500 needed to buy it from the Granite Handtub Association in Newmarket, NH. On October 11, 1825, Dr. Fairfax Schley, great-great-grandson of John Thomas Schley, who built the first house in Fredericktown, and a prominent physician and proponent of The Frederick Fair, was born. On October 11, 1863, Samuel Weinberg, a prominent Frederick businessman, married Amelia Lowenstein, of Baltimore, after a courtship of 28 days. On October 11, 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes attended The Great Frederick Fair. On October 11, 1901, The Rev. James Addison Ingle, son of the Rev. Osborne Ingle, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Frederick, was elected the Episcopal missionary bishop of Hankow, China. On October 11, 1971, McCutcheon Cider Mill was incorporated as McCutcheon Apple Products, Inc., on South Wisner Street in Frederick. If anyone can add information to these History Moments, or would like to suggest an item for another calendar day, please contact me privately. Out of town a few days - Just catching up. John W. Ashbury Wasps1965@comcast.net <mailto:Wasps1965@comcast.net>