Food for Thought

[mike86002000]

That pretty much matches the story I heard. thanks for the details.
"Brookefield" sounds very dignified. I worked in a gas station, there, part time, during high school.
The pocket doors isn't an 'issue" anymore than the origin of the name "T. B.". As I said, carelessness in the details, detracts from the credibility of the story, in this case the newspaper story quoted above.
As I understand it, land grants in Maryland, in early colonial times, weren't granted by the king, to individuals. Lord Baltimore was granted Maryland, with extraordinary powers, as an alternative to the failing Virginia colony. Lord Baltimore doled out estates, to be operated as though "owned" for three generations, in exchange for a token rent. Out right ownership of a large estate would only have come later after the Protestant take over, in Maryland. I don't think it would have been granted by the king.
I've always considered the story about ballast stones, even bricks, to be dubious. There was profitable cargo to be transported to America, from England.
Mike