General Notes

from book THE ANDERSONS FROM THE GREAT FORK OF THE PATUXENT BY CORA ANDERSON DULANEY

The Great Fork of the Patuxent is divided into two parts by the Pennsylvania Railroad.  The lower section contains approximately five and one half square miles. 

In 1684 Walter Phelps took a tract of the two hundrend acres which he called Phelps His Choice.  The whole acreage finally came into the possession of Susannah Anderson whose first husband, John, was a son of Walter Phelps.  In 1754 she took, by Warrant of Re-Survey, a tract of six hundred and seventy acres which she called Providence and which included Phelps His Choice.  The tract reached all the way across the Fork from the Little Patuxent to the Big Patuxent River. 

Duvall's Range was taken up in 1694 by Capt. John Duvall, son of the immigrant, Mareen Duvall.  He sold it to Hezekiah Linthicum who divided it among his children.  Thinthicum descendants lived in the Great Fork until 1890.  Many of the earlier owners moved on to seek greener fields.  Among them the Andersons and Bealmears who went to Montgomery and Frederick Counties, MD and farther west to Ohio and Kentucky.