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Hungerford's Tavern Chapter |
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Potomac, MD |
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History of Our Chapter |
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| The Hungerford's Tavern Chapter, NSDAR was organized
May 20, 1974 and confirmed June 7, 1974. The Chapter is chartered in Potomac, Maryland. The name was chosen because if any one site can be said to be the birthplace
of Montgomery County it is Hungerford's Tavern, which probably stood at the corner of
South Washington and Jefferson Streets in Rockville.
On Saturday, June 11, 1774, at Hungerford's Tavern, the leading men
of lower Frederick County met with Henry Griffith as moderator and Archibald Orme as clerk
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"That it is the opinion of this meeting that the most effectual
means for the securing of American freedom will be to break off all commerce with Great
Britain and the West Indies." |
Dr. Thomas Sprigg Wootton, Nathan and Zadek Magruder, Richard Brooke, Henry Griffith, Evan
and Richard Thomas, Dr. William Baker, Thomas Cramphin, Jr. and Allen Bowie were appointed
to carry the resolution to Annapolis. Two years later, on
September 6, 1776, a resolution introduced by Dr. Thomas Sprigg Wootton was passed by the
Maryland Assembly dividing the western and south sections of Frederick County into
Washington and Montgomery, the first counties in the state named for citizens of the
colonies. At this time it was directed that elections be held and Charles Hungerford's
tavern was the place chosen for these first Montgomery County elections.
On May 20, 1777, the first court was held in Hungerford's Tavern,
which continued to serve as the seat of government for Montgomery County until the first
court house was erected in 1779. |
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