Maryland State Archives

   Application For Warrant To Survey Vacant Land

   Certificate of Survey

   Applicants' Survey Plat

   Applicants' Research Summary (Draft)

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   Applicants' Research Summary (Final)

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   Mansell's Purchase Line 40 Explanation

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Objector's Submittals:

   Objection to Grant of Patent
 
 

Deputy Commissioner's Research:

   Deputy Commissioner's Research Summary

   Deputy Commissioner's Research Webpage

Deputy Commissioner's Research:

    Scanned Original Documents

• Land Office (Certificates, Patented, BA) No. 507  Batchelor's Refuge, 1761
• Land Office (Certificates, Patented, BA) No. 1602  Eppington Forest, 1764
• Land Office (Certificates, Patented, BA) No. 3553  N. W. Point of Batchelor's Refuge, 1770
• Land Office (Certificates, Patented, BA) No. 3121  Mansell's Purchase, 1771
• Land Office (Certificates, Patented, BA) No. 333  Andrew's Back Branch, 1771
• Land Office (Certificates, Unpatented, BA) No. 1785  York County, 1794
• Land Office (Certificates, Patented, BA) No. 4082  Red Oak Ridge, 1795
• Land Office (Certificates, Patented, BA) No. 2822  Leatherwood's Meadow, 1802
• Land Office (Certificates, Patented, BA) No. 2821  Leatherwood's Addition, 1802
• Baltimore County Court (Land Records) WG 158. pp. 410-415  Land Commission, 1820
• Baltimore County Court (Chancery Papers) No. 1011  Survey Plat, 1831
• Howard County Register of Wills (Wills) 1841-1955   Survey Plat, 1841
• S. J.Martenet Map of Carroll Couunty, 1862
• Carroll County Circuit Court (Equity Papers) No. 973   Survey Plat, 1868
• USGS (Topographic Map) Winfield Quadrangle,1950, photo revised 1979
• Carroll County Circuit Court (Plat Book) LWS 27, pp. 133-135  Cumorah Estates, 1986
• Office of Planning (MdProperty View) Carroll County Tax Map No. 66, 1999
• USGS (Orthophoto Quarter Quad) Carroll County, MD Winfield SW
• Land Office (Warrants) No. 96  Applicants' Survey Plat, 2001

Deputy Commissioner's Research:

     Deedmapper Plats and Title Histories

• Andrews Back Branch 1802
• Batchelor's Refuge 1761
• Carlyle Title Search
• Eppington Forest Equity 1831
• Eppington Forest 1764
• Geyer Title Search
• Leatherman's Addition 1802
• Leatherman's Meadow 1802
• Linton 1 Title Search
• Linton 2 Title Search
• Mansell's Purchase 1771
• Miller Title Search
• North West Point of Batchelor's Refuge 1770
• Patton Title Search
• Red Oak Equity 1868
• Red Oak 1795
• Shipley's Dower 1820
• Shipley's Land Commission 1820
• York County 1794

    Title Search Abstracts

• Carlyle Title Search Abstract
• Geyer Title Search Abstract
• Linton 1 Title Search Abstract
• Linton 2 Title Search Abstract
• Miller Title Search Abstract
• Patton Title Search Abstract

Deputy Commissioner's Research:

     Miscellaneous Materials

• Carroll County Historical Society (Arthur G. Tracey Collection) Mansell's Purchase Plat, ca. 1940s
• Carroll County Historical Society (Arthur G. Tracey Collection) Eppington Forest Plat, ca. 1940s

Commissioner

      Commissioner's Questions and Script

• Commissioner's Questions
• Commissioner's Script

• List of Participants and Witnesses

    Participants and Witnesses

• List of Participants and Witnesses

• Assessors' Joint Determination of Fair Market Value

• Applicants' Critique of Assessors' Joint Determination
• Bitzel and Associates Appraisal Report
• Additional Fair Market Value Information

• Commissioner's Letter to Supervisor Requesting Explanation
  
• Supervisor's Response
• Applicants' Reply to Supervisor's Response

    Applicants' Submittals and Exhibits

• 33 Photographs (see "Notes" section)
• Applicants' Survey Plat Worksheet A1-4522
• Applicants' Survey Plat Worksheet Draft
• Applicants' Survey Plat Worksheet 1813 Deed

• Statement of Bruce G. Fusselbaugh
• Statement of David L. Linton

• Baltimore County Commissioners of the Tax (Assessment Record) 1818, District 6

Post-Hearing Submittals

  Commissioner's Request

• Commissioner's Letter To Objectors and Applicants Concerning Adverse Possession

  Legal Authorities on Adverse Possession

• Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Israel's Memorandum  - Adverse Possession in Land Patent Proceedings, 2002
• "Recent Decision: ADVERSE POSSESSION - Municipal Corporations - Title to Property Held in a Proprietary Capacity Can Be Divested By Adverse Possession," Maryland Law Review, Vol. 35, No. 2, 1975, pp. 337-347.
• Koontz letter, 1980
• WARREN C. GUNBY ET AL. v. LORIE C. QUINN, JR., 1928 No. 11 COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND 156 Md. 123
• BISHOP  v. STACKUS,  No. 104   October Term, 1954   Court of Appeals of Maryland   206 Md. 493
• GORE v. HALL,  No. 76   October Term, 1954   Court of Appeals of Maryland   206 Md. 485
• STERLING v. STERLING,  No. 36  October Term, 1956  Court of Appeals of Maryland   211 Md. 493
• GOEN et al. v. SANSBURY, No. 149, September Term, 1958, Court of Appeals of Maryland 219 Md. 289
• BLICKENSTAFF et al. v. BROMLEY et ux., Etc., No. 334, September Term, 1965, Court of Appeals of Maryland, 243 Md. 164
• SIEJACK et ux. v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE et al., No. 115, September Term, 1973, Court of Appeals of Maryland, 270 Md. 640
• CENTRAL COLLECTION UNIT, STATE OF MARYLAND  v. ATLANTIC CONTAINER LINE No. 168   September Term, 1975   Court of Appeals of Maryland   277 Md. 626
• BRATTON  v. HITCHENS,  No. 1277   September Term, 1978   Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
• Richard L. PETERS v. Elmer V. STAUBITZ No. 122, September Term, 1985, Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, 64 Md. App. 639
• SKI ROUNDTOP  v.  WAGERMAN,  No. 1227   September Term, 1988  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland   79 Md. App. 357
• BARCHOWSKY  v. SILVER FARMS  No. 1458  September Term, 1994   Court of Special Appeals of Maryland  105 Md. App. 228
• LIPPERT  v.  JUNG,  No. 16   September Term, 2001  Court of Appeals of Maryland   366 Md. 221

  Applicants' Post-Hearing Submittal

• Account of Expenses and Supplement
• Applicants' Response to Objectors' Memorandum of Law
• Applicants' Memorandum of Points and Authorities - Issue of Vacant Land
• Applicants' Memorandum of Points and Authorities - Claim of Possession by Objectors
• Applicants's Statement on Assessment of Costs

  Objectors' Post-Hearing Submittal

• Objectors' Memorandum of Law

Hearing Transcript

• Transcript of the Public Hearing Held April 25, 2002

Commissioner's Opinion and Findings

• Department of Natural Resources Letter dated February 25, 2002
• Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Israel's Advice of Counsel - Attorney's Fees
• Opinion and Findings

DNR's response to the vacant land in question in Warrant 96.

ADC The Map People, Carroll [County, Maryland], 13th Edition, plate showing Gillis Falls Reservoir

Approximate location of proposed patent on an ADC map of Carroll County.

Governor Parris N. Glendening Signs Patent

Land Patent issued to Patricia and Richard Geyer, and recorded in LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) ECP 1, pp. 33-36, MSA S 11-211
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