In case I didn't write you personally, thank you to those of you who have helped me identify where The Drouth & Harbins Lott were. According to the actual deed which someone sent, my ancestor James Harbin's The Drouth & Resurvey of the Drouth was on a small branch of Dry Seneca Creek which was then in Frederick County. Now it is in Montgomery County. He was on Sugarland Hundred for the 1776 census, and I see that there is a town called Sugarland near the creek. His brother Joshua patented Harbin's Lott in 1750 from a tract called "The James" then in the possession of one James Holmean/rd Senr. Joshua remained in Frederick Co., through 1765 when he bought ?more of the same tract from a Samuel Turner. Since several of you say the Conogocheague Manor which these lands were part of was in Washington County, are you saying that it was big enough that it would be in Washington, and Frederick, and reached into Montgomery too? Wow! Can anyone identify where the Harbin's Lott was? One of my Joshua's did enroll in 1776 from "Frederick County Upper District" so that sounds to me like maybe Harbin's Lott was in Washington. Can anyone give me a phonetic spelling of that manor name? Do you pronounce every vowel, as I suspect? Thanks for your thoughts. This list has some neat people on it. Joan Marie in Oregon

I guess I didn't explain the location well enough. The Manor is entirely in what is now Washington County. It is in the present Conococheague Creek watershed., running north from Williamsport to the Pennsylvania State line. Of course it cannot include present Frederick or Montgomery counties. Coincidentally, in today's mail arrived the latest (issue #7) of the magazine Catoctin History, which contains a very informative long article about the settlement of the Conococheague Manor. Pronounced con - oh - co - cheeg. -----George Ely Russell, CG, FASG, FNGS, author of the Washington County Maryland Genealogical Research Guide (Catoctin Press)