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White Cliffs (originally called Clifts), Calvert County, Maryland

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According to Earle, "situated on the great cliffs between Dare's and Governor's Run wharves [Calvert County] is a quaint little house, called by its present owner, Mr. Joseph Packard, of Baltimore, 'White Cliffs,' although from records the name was no doubt 'Clifts' and was the early home of the Mackenzie family in Maryland. The present house, probably on the site of the original structure, from its architecture and tradition is over a hundred years old. Thomas Mackenzie who came to America in 1746 and settled at the 'Clifts,' Calvert County, was born at Inverness, Scotland, in 1720, and was a lineal descendant of Kenneth Mackenzie, of Scotland, first High Chief of Kintail. In Calvert County Thomas Mackenzie lived the life of a Maryland planter. He married, first Rebecca Johnson, daughter of Thomas and Mary {Baker) Johnson and sister of Gov. Thomas Johnson. At her death he married Ann Johns, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (Hance) Johns, of the 'Clifts,' Calvert County. Cosmo Mackenzie, eldest son and heir of Thomas Mackenzie, was born at the 'Clifts' in 1770. He was a lawyer and planter of Calvert. He married, in 1793, Sarah Mackall, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Taylor) Mackall, of Calvert. Thomas Mackenzie eldest son and heir of Cosmo, was born at the 'Clifts' March 20, 1794, and died in Baltimore in 1866. He inherited his father's landed estate in Calvert, also his slaves, but being opposed to the institution of slavery, on attaining his majority, manumitted all his slaves, removed...
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Digital Reproduction Of 1 Hand Colored Lantern Slide, 5 X 9 Cm.
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