Hi! Just wanted to say thanks for the info, this was a great read. Thank goodness for the cantankerous and the rascals amongst our families for they are the ones who leave us a wide enough paper trail to follow. It's those family members that led a quiet life that I end up being frustrated with because they are harder to find. ;) Thanks again for helping my fit of curiosity! Irene On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:48:07 -0700, you wrote: >Hi! > >Capt. Edward Norwood was one cantankerous fellow. He was a landowner from >Patapsco, and lived near Elkridge Landing, where he and his brother Samuel >ran Norwood's Ferry (or "Elkridge Ferry") on the Patapsco and he had a >plantation that may have spanned the Patapsco, which was a raging river >then, not the silted-up creek seen today. He died in 1815 and is buried >in Elkridge on the grounds of the Seagram's facility. (snip)