Quaker-Roots list members, I have in recent months been tracing the Friends-meeting locations (and property titles) in Baltimore, which in 1851 became a separate-title recording jurisdiction from Baltimore County. I have come to question whether events in the early 1800s foreshadow which branch Friends chose in the 1828 separation. The first meeting in Baltimore County was Gunpowder, set off as a monthly meeting ("MM") in 1739 from Herring Creek MM in Anne Arundel County (what became Sandy Spring MM). In 1714 Herring Creek MM set up Patapsco Preparative Meeting in what is now Baltimore, the PM (now under Gunpowder) was renamed Baltimore PM in 1781, and the membership grew sufficiently that Baltimore MM was set up in 1792. Baltimore, formerly Western Shore, Quarterly Meeting ("QM") set off Baltimore MM for the Western District in 1807 and renamed the original Baltimore MM as Baltimore MM for the Eastern District, but shortly after the property disputes started. The original deeds were to named trustees "in trust for the use of the Society of Christian people called Quakers inhabiting and dwelling in and near the Town and County of Baltimore", which presented no ambiguity so long as there was only one MM there. Shortly after the Western District MM was set off, however, the Eastern District MM decided not to share with the Western District MM the original Friends Burial Ground ("FBG") at Aisquith Street in the eastern part of the city. This dispute continued for some years and the Yearly Meeting directed that the Eastern District MM be discontinued and attached to the Western District MM. That was done in 1819. This action did not end the dispute, as some of the Eastern District members petitioned both the Baltimore City Council and the Maryland General Assembly to declare some of them as the legal trustees for the original Baltimore Quaker properties. This appeal to the civil authorities was widely viewed as a breach of discipline. The Western District MM treated with several members over many months, and on 1822/10/04 the Western District MM Men's Meeting disowned 14 men. I read their names as: John Cornthwait Samuel Wilson, son of John Uriah Brown Joseph Brevitt Samuel S. Smith William Dowson Jr. David R. Wilson Thomas Wilson Israel Price Samuel Register David W. Brown Abel Spencer Isaiah Littler Samuel Wilson Jr. I have not traced the minutes carefully thereafter, but 13 of them appealed to the QM, and some of them appear as trustees appointed by the Western District MM 1830, so I do not know which memberships were discontinued in the early 1820s. My question to the list is whether the 1810 to 1822 title dispute played any part in the 1828 separation resulting in (1) the Hicksite Western District MM now named "Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends, Stony Run" and (2) the Orthodox MM first named "The Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends for the Eastern & Western Districts, in Unity with the Ancient Yearly Meetings of Friends" and now named "Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends Homewood". Do any of these names show up as disowned by one party or the other in the 1828 split? Tom Hill Thomas C. Hill Charlottesville, VA 22901-6355 U.S.A. www.QuakerMeetings.com E-mail: MonthlyMeetings@gmail.com