>From History Moments, posted by John W. Ashbury on the Frederick Co. MD, Mailing List. " On November 15, 1859, Meschach Browning, who was born in Frederick County in 1781 and who became one of the most prolific hunters in American history, died at the home of his daughter, Nancy Nattingly, at Hoyes in Garrett County. His diaries tell the story of early America and were published several times, beginning in 1859 as "Forty-Four Years in the Life of A Hunter."