Show QUEER NAMES NAMES OF OF ESTATES Baltimore County Md Furnishes s Many In Old Deeds of Land The peculiar names given to estates i In in Baltimore county in days gone one by appeal strongly to the of the 1 many lawyers who go to Towson to tos to s search the old transfer books and should delight the he e searcher after unique nomenclature All the transfers In former years yearn began with The Indenture which which's s has b been en of late years changed to this deed The first deed filed for record concerned the transfer of Cub Hill dill from Michael C. C Jenkins and William H. H Collins Trustees Trustees Trustees Trus Trus- tees to Owen Donovan This was followed fol fol- lowed wed by the he transfer of Airy Hills Hillsand Hillsand r and Pleasant Springs from Ame Amelia ia Gannon to John Thomas Ritter and then Adventure Solomons Wisdom Wisdom Wisdom Wis Wis- dom and nd Beards Beards Branch were conveyed conveyed con con- from Samuel Dicks to Alexander ti Lehr Leh In the Second District was a tract of land called Plains of Paran PetI Pet Petticoats 1 I Loose Loose is the title of an an est estate tl in the Sixth district and General Lafayette the friend friend- of General WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington therefore the friend of Universal r. r sal Liberty is rather appellation appellation appel appel- lation applied to a homestead in th the Sixth district Stones Adventure Is near Tows Towson n. n Devils Back Devils Devil s Back Back BackBone Bone Bones s on the line of the Fifth and nd Sixth districts dis dis- and Two Down at On Once e Is inthe inthe In Inthe the Fifth district Some other queer titles are Puzzle Frederick Enlarged The T e Great Glads Goop Hope Fellowship Fel Felt Y Yr r r Good Will Delight De De- light Fathers Last Will or or MaxWells Max Mai Maxw Wells w lIs' lIs Point Bridewell Dock Yorks x rk's Chance Little Brittain Hard Scrabble Stephens Bargain Addition to Amos Venture Resurvey- Resurvey i ed Retirement Short Leg Tom and Soldiers Delight Baltimore Sun |