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On November 3, 1639, Lord Baltimore granted
to Dr. Tomas Gerard 6030 acres of land. He became
the Lord of St. Clement's Manor.
St. Clement's Hundred (Manor) of the County of
St. Maries (St. Mary's County, Maryland) was
erected, and Thomas GERRARD commissioned
Lord of the Manor, on 16 Mar 1639 (1640):
Cecilius &c To our trusty Thomas Gerrard Gent
Whereas We have thought fit to erect the Isles
called St Clements Isle and Heron Isle, and all
the Land over against the Said Islands on the
North bank of Patowmeck River between the
Creek Commonly called the herring Creek on
the East and St Catherine’s Creek on the West
and extending Northwards Into the woods five
mile any where from the Said Bank into a
hundred by the name of St Clements hundred,
Now to the end our peace and rights and the
good orders of our Province may be the better
maintained and Conserved from time to time
within the Said hundred We relyeing much