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The Edward Corder Senior Memorial Library
A collection of digitized documents relating
to Edward Corder Sr. and his descendants
Established January 2007, organized
and maintained by Laura Henderson
This collection is intended for educational
use by genealogical researchers of the Corder family and allied
lines. Please do not copy or distribute these resources, or use
them for commercial purposes or in publications of any kind without
permission from the original sources or copyright holders.
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Selected Clippings from The Maryland
Gazette (1728-1799)
Microfilmed originals of pages can be
downloaded from the Archives
of Maryland
The Maryland Gazette, founded and edited by Englishman
William Parks in 1727, was the first newspaper published in the
colony of Maryland. Today the state of Maryland makes available
to the public a somewhat dog-eared and sadly incomplete online
archive of the Gazette. Please enjoy a collection of my own
personal favorite "clippings" which I feel provide a vivid
impression of life in Edward Corder's 18th century world.
1728
- One Hundred and FortyYear Old Cat
The Maryland Gazette, Number
[illegible], Tuesday December 3 - Tuesday December 10, 1728
[London, July
6, 1728] "'Tis written from Nantclyn near Denbigh,
that there is a Cat 140 Years old; several Persons now living
remember her above 60 Years; and the Owner, Mr.William Lloyd of
Pennant, can himself remember her for about 50. The Account given
of her by him and his Family is that she was rear'd by his Grandmother
when a Child about five years old, who was born the 35th Year
of Queen Elizabeth." [View
original document]
1728
- Banished to Siberia to "troop amongst the bears"
The Maryland Gazette, Number
[LXVI], Tuesday December 10 - Tuesday December 17, 1728
"They write from
Moscow, that a Council was lately held in the Presence of the
Czar, where it was proposed that all Persons in publick Employments,
who should be found inking the publick Money, should be immediately
banished to Siberia; others
were for having them transported to a certain foreign land which
lies somewhat South-Westward of Moscow: But this Proposal was
rejected, because it was urged that it could be no punishment
to send People to a Country, where their Parts might probably
gain them Preferments, so they must troop amongst the bears."
[View
original document]
1728
- Condemned to be burnt alive...(according to the custom of the
Country)
The Maryland Gazette, Number
[LXVII], Tuesday December 17 - Tuesday December 24, 1728
[Vienna, July
16, 1728] "Letters from Sogomin in Hungary of the 16th
of July import, that several Persons of both Sexes convicted of
Witchcraft, have been condemned to be burnt alive, but before
they were executed they put them upon the following Tryals (according
to the custom of the Country) the first was to tye
their Hands and Feet, and throw them into the Water, who as Sorcerers
us'd to do, Swam like a piece of Wood; after which they were put
into Scales, when it appeared, that a large Woman weighed but
one Ounce, and her Husband but 5 Drams, and the other still lighter
whereupon they were burnt alive the 23rd past. There was among
'em a Midwife who had baptized 2000 Children in the Name of the
Devil; and a Man of 82 Years Old, who was former a Judge of that
Town." [View
original document]
This collection is intended for educational
use by genealogical researchers of the Corder family and allied
lines. Please do not copy or distribute these resources, or use
them for commercial purposes or in publications of any kind without
permission from the original sources or copyright holders.
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