Anne Arundel County (very preliminary)

I have plotted some of the original land grants for Anne Arundel County. While Anne Arendel County came before Baltimore County, the boundary between it and Baltimore County, once it was split off, changed several times. Baltimore County originally extended south of the Patapsco River. The exact boundary is hard to locate, but the general line can be determined by which County various patents were considered to be in. Note that this file is far from complete and many included have not been properly placed. This is an ongoing project.

From the beginning, I have used DeedMapper from Direct Line Software to plot all these patents and various other deeds and surveys. The following files may be downloaded to be used with DeedMapper. I suggest that you first create a new folder on your computer. Download the following three files into the new folder by right-clicking on each one in turn and choosing Save Link or Download.

• AA-County.mbl (the DeedMapper data)
• images.dat (contains data to position and scale the following background map correctly)
• tax-map.tif (11 kB) (contains one TIF file which provide a background map for the plots)

If you have any questions, please e-mail them to mpierce1@aol.com