Excerpt from Baltimore, Its Past and Present: A Souvenir of the Twenty-Seventh Convention of the United States Brewers' Association

Eorge calvert, the founder of Maryland, while clerk in the Privy Council of England, became a great favorite of James I. He was knighted and raised to the Irish peerage as Baron of Baltimore, in the county of Longford, Ireland, and was known from this time forward as Sir George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore. He visited in the year 1628 the colony Virginia and received upon his return to England from his sovereign the promise of a grant of terri tory in the region which he had just visited, but before his Charter was signed he died, (april isth, leaving his titles and estates to his eldest son, Cecilius Calvert, II. Lord Baltimore.

On June 20th, 1632. A Charter was issued as follows All that part of the Peninsula lying in the part of America between the ocean on the east and the bay of Chesapeake on the west; divided from the residue there of by a right line drawn from the promontory or headland called Watkins Point, situated upon the bay aforesaid, on the west. Unto the main ocean on the east; and between that boundary on'the south, unto that part of the bay of Delaware on the north which lieth under the fortieth degree of north latitude from the equinoctial; and passing from said bay, called Delaware Bay, in a right line by the degree aforesaid, unto the true meridian of the first fountain ofthe river Potomac, thence verging to wards the south, unto the farther bank of the same river. And following the same on the west and south, unto a certain place called Cinquack, situated near the mouth of said river, where it disembogues into the aforesaid bay of Chesapeake. And thence by theshortest line unto the aforesaid promontory or place called Watkins Point. It was first intended to call the new Province Crescentia, but when the charter was presented to Charles I. For signature he substituted Maryland, (terra Mariae) in honor of his Queen, Henrietta Maria of France.

Nearly a century, after the charter was obtained, passed betore Baltimore was founded. About 1659 however Baltimore County was erected and its bounds included the present Counties of Harford, Cecil and part of Kent. The County Seat of Balti more County was Joppa, on the east side of the Gunpowder River, about half a mile south of the Phila. Wil R. R. Joppa was a great Tobacco market. Contained the Courthouse, the Jail, the St. Johns Church, Warehouses, Shipyards and some large stone Dwellings. It has since disappeared and only the name of a lonesome County Road in Baltimore County, the old Joppa Road, reminds us of this once important County seat of Baltimore County.

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