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in 1715, and a way important independent
grant of almost two thousand
acres dates from the tenth day of August.
1716.

From the foregoing statements we
may determine with some exactness
when the unexplored lands of the
region were conveyed by the Lord
Proprietor of Maryland to the first
regular settlers. Thus about two hundred
and and sixty years ago the very first
settlers came to this neighborhood.
What picture presented itself to their
wondering gaze? To quote from the
first historian of Sandy Spring "An
unbroken forest covered the whole
region, except in a few spots where
the wigwams of the native Indian
showed around them little patches
of corn and tobacco, so few and far
between as scarce to break the face
of the primeval wilderness. " The fact
that the forest of that early day was
not, as today, covered with under