O'Beirne's diary of Booth manhunt

[L Verge]

I don't ever remember seeing this, but it did give me a clue to something. Many years ago, Mr. Hall said that David Herold spent a lot of time in Patuxent City (now a nearly extinct village) in Charles County, Maryland, and may even have lived there for awhile.

Mr. Hall was amazed to find out that I actually knew where Patuxent City is. Heath's find doesn't give it the name Patuxent City, but it refers to "between Woodville and Benedict." Woodville is now known as Aquasco, and Benedict was/is the port on the Patuxent River where the British Navy landed British troops in 1814 and began the overland march to burn Washington City. Thanks to this, I now have the name of a Dr. Robinson that was a Herold contact.

Ironically, friends of our family from T.B. bought one of the most beautiful farms in Southern Maryland back in the 1960s. That farm is at Benedict, and the family's name is Robinson. However, the farm is about three miles distant from Patuxent City and lies right along the river. Back in the early-1800s, the adjacent farm (known as Middle Plantation) was owned by a branch of my family - but it was lost in a poker game.