The following Horten and Deutsch and Born families moved from Ellicott Mills, Maryland to the former White Marsh Plantation in the Queen Anne's district (Collington) near Bowie in Prince Georges County, Maryland circa 1865. The families were tenant farmers to the Jesuit priests of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church and first worked in their vineyards. After a few years the vineyards failed and John Horten and Frank Deutsch harvested willow branches for basketweaving. Letters from Frank to Father Zwinge tell this story. The families lived on farms (actually in District #14) across the Annapolis Road from the church grounds, about a mile from the Patuxent River Priest's Bridge - just off of Crain Highway. The Hortens lived in one farm dwelling nearby and the Deutsch and Born families lived in dwellings right next door to each other on the same farm property. I would really like to know the history of the Jesuit tenant farmers, the vineyards, and willow harvesting, and to contact anyone who might know about these properties across from historic Sacred Heart, its history, and its current owners. the two farms and three dwellings consisted of: John Horten (b. 1827) and his wife Kate (or Catherine- b. 1822) Deutsch Horten and children Anna (b. 1852), John (b. 1858), Mary Frances (b. 1861), and Francis Erasmus (b. 1863) and Kate's brother Francis (Frank) Joseph Deutsch (1827) and his wife Elizabeth Born Deutsch and children Francis Cleophus (1858), Maria Anna (1860), Nicholas Bonaventure (1862), Julia Elizabeth (1864), Anna Martina Carolina (1866), Anastasia Antonia Margaretha (1868) and Frank's mother Mary (or Anna Maria- 1793) Deutsch. and in a dwelling next door lived Elizabeth's family Margaret Born (age 54), Mary (age 32), and Julia (age 17) It seems that Frank and Kate's father - Joseph Valerius Deutsch (1792) and Elizabeth's father - John Born may have died in Ellicott Mills (No grave has been found) and Mary Deutsch dies eventually in Prince George's County. No grave for her was ever found at Sacred Heart. Don't know whether Elizabeth Deutsch parents John and Margaretha Born and sister Mary and Julia M. ever moved from Ellicott Mills to Prince Georges County. The Deutsch family remained in Prince Georges County for generations but the Horten family grew tired of the struggles of rural life and returned to Baltimore City by 1874. I would like to know what happened to the Deutsch family. All of the adults were German immigrants from Rhenish Prussia in the 1850s and the children before 1859 were born in Baltimore City and baptized at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church and after 1859 in Ellicott Mills and baptized at St Paul Catholic Church. In Ellicott Mills, John Horten and Frank Deutsch had worked for the Christian Brothers at Rockhill College. They lived in Howard County briefly during the Civil War skirmish -The Raid of Ellicott Mills and moved to Prince Georges County by the end of the war. Thanks for your help. Bill Horten 4925 Madison Avenue San Diego, CA 92115 williamhorten@home.com