on the sleepers. I shall, however, spend a day in Dallas, and two in Fort Worth, including a Sabbath, as we have very dear friends living at both places, one of whom is Rev. J. M. Wells, pastor of the Baptist church in Fort Worth. We shall also spend as much as one day and two nights at each San Antonio and Galveston, and, with proper connections, expect to reach home Saturday night, March 10th.

W. T. HEARNE.

When visiting on the Eastern shore, 1891, the land of my ancestors of two hundred years ago, and mingling with their descendants still living there, I learned from many of them of the tradition, well authenticated, that when our ancestor, William Hearne, came to the province of Maryland in 1680 or 1681, there came with him two brothers, one of whom settled at what is known as the "Line Meeting-house," a church building located on the present line of Maryland and Delaware, and the other settled at what is known as "Theodore Brewington's Mill," and William himself settled at the place now known as the Elijah Freney place, near Delmar. The settlements of these brothers were all in the same locality, only a few miles apart.

One of these brothers was named Ebenezer, and I have been unable to get any track of him or his descendants except in one instance, and that is a record in Georgetown, Delaware, of a "Grant from the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania" of a tract of land called "Hearne’s Addition to Kings Folly" to Thomas Hearne (son of Ebenezer), Dec. 11, 1735.

The other brother of 1680 was named Derby, who aftwerwards moved to Kent Co.. Maryland, and died there in 1716. Notice of him and dlescendants will appear further on.

I have found any number of Hearnes in Maryland and Delaware and other parts of the country, whose ancestors came from there and who are doubtless descendants of one of these families, so very few, comparatively, having positive knowledge of their ancestry and a genealogical record. Ebenezer seems to be a family name used more largely than any other (William only excepted) in every branch of the family. in every part of the country.

I now note a few land-warrant records from the office in Georgetown, Delaware:

Grant from the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania to Joseph

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