Bastian, the gardener at the bestate/b of "Harlem" in Baltimore, placed a similar notice in the same publication in November of 1802. Theft of produce was not new to Maryland. Thirty years earlier Charles Carroll of Carrollton placed a ...
These London Calais merchants, with whom the king had to bargain for loans and levies as if with a fourth bestate/b of the realm, had extensive business and personal connection with wool growing district like the costwolds, where they and ...