Note 599 — Chapter IV

“A few neglected grave-stones, several heaps of brick and rubbish, and a solitary mansion, belonging to one of the oldest families in the State, are about all that remain of the once famous seaport town [Joppa] of provincial Maryland.” Lewis W. Wilhelm’s Local Institutions of Maryland (1885), p. 128. This paper is parts v., vi., and vii. of the third series of the Johns Hopkins University Studies, and covers a history of the land system, the hundreds, the county and towns of the province. The institutional life of the town began in 1683-85.