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Excerpt from Western Maryland in the Revolution
The western frontier of Maryland advanced but little beyond the head of the tide water until the sturdy German settlers, coming down through the valleys of the Blue Ridge, settled the fertile valleys of Frederick and Wash ington counties. With their arrival, about the year 1735, a new and most important era opened in Maryland's his tory. Previously there had been no doubt concerning her alliance with the South in her economic, social and political life. This new and alien in?uence tended to join the province closer to Pennsylvania, and, as Western Mary land became more and more populous and as the city of Baltimore grew in commercial importance, largely through the in?uence of the same German settlers, there came to be a doubt in the minds of geographers Whether Maryland should be called a Middle or Southern State. The life on the Western Maryland farms was far different from that on the plantations of the Chesapeake Bay, and the people of the latter had many economic, commercial and senti mental ties to England, of which the Westerners knew nothing. After landing at Philadelphia, the Germans passed down the fertile lands of Lancaster and York coun ties and settled all along the valleys as far as northern Georgia. So many of them came that in 1748 Western Maryland could be made a county, under the name of Frederick. In this county was contained, down to the Revolution, all Maryland west of Baltimore, Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties.
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