I hope the passage below will be of some interest to Listers, and isn't too long. It reinforces the fact about Prince George's County and land records of present Wash Co, as mentioned by J Keller, below. Mike ---- [Hagerstown Mail, Sep 9, 1870] Dropping into the sheriff's office a day or two since, we found Mr. Sol B. Rohrer, of our place, overhauling some very memorable parchments belonging to his family... which, along with the Hagers, were the pioneers of civilization in the valley of the Conococheague and Antietam. We selected a conveyance to which was dangling, as to a treaty between nations, a poderous seal in wax, with the present coat of arms of our State impressed on one side and 'St. George and the Dragon' on the other. The document bore date Jan. 16, 1739, being, as was recited, 'the twenty-fifth year of our dominion,' and was issued by 'Charles, Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Province of Maryland and Avalon, Lord Baron of Baltimore,' etc. It recites that 'Whereas Jacob Roarer, of Prince George County [how very few persons living here know that they occupy a portion of what was once Prince George's County!], by his humble petition to our agent for transagment (sic) of our land affairs within this province,' etc., 'did sell fifty acres of vacant land lying in and being in county aforesaid, about a mile from Anteatam (sic) Creek and about three miles from Shirk's mill', etc. The whole document, as well as the other deeds, are quite curious and interesting, and to future historians may prove valuable. It was issued by Samuel Ogle, Lieutenant-Governor of the province. "History of Western Maryland," Vol II. J. Thomas Scharf, Philadelphia, 1882. Page 982. > If you want to search land records for a patent of 1738, you would have to look at Prince George's County. All of the western lands were part of Prince George's County until 1748 when Frederick County was formed. Washington County was formed in 1776 from Frederick County. > > J Keller