Note 117 — Chapter XIII · MARYLAND’S VICISSITUDES.

Alexander Graydon tells us that in his early days any jockeying, fiddling, wine-bibbing clergyman, not over-scrupulous as to stealing his sermons, was currently known as a “Maryland parson.” Graydon’s Memoirs, Edinburgh, 1822, p. 102. This was in Pennsylvania, and any sneering remark or phrase current in any of our states with reference to its next neighbours is entitled to be taken cum grano salis. But there was doubtless justification for what Graydon says.