VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY. 37 



being- the work of very great pains and charge, and for the 

 King's especial service; and whereas the copying or counter- 

 feiting said map would be very much to said Herman's preju- 

 dice and discouragement, all his Majesty's Subjects are hereby 

 Strictly forbidden to copy, epitomize, or reprint, in whole or in 

 part, any part of said map, within the term of fourteen years 

 next ensumg without the consent of said Herman, his heirs, 

 or assigns. [Dom. Entry Bk., Chas. H Vol XXXVI, p.p. 323, 

 324-] 



In the New York Sun of October 23, 1892, an article entitled 

 " Lord of Bohemia Manor," gives the most exhaustive account 

 of Herman, which the editor of that paper has kindly permitted 

 me to republish. The author, E. N. Vallandigham of New York, 

 is indebted to Lednum's Rise of Methodism in America, and 

 Vincent's History of Delaware, for considerable information. 



LORD OF BOHEMIA MANOR. 



Augustine Herman, an Early Hero of New York and Maryland. 



Story of a Seventeenth Century Merchant who became a Great Landozvner 

 and Baron on the Delazvare Peninsula. 



Down on the west side of Pearl street, at or near the corner of Pine, 

 there stood some 250 years ago a fine old-fashioned mansion with orchard 

 and gardens, and in this mansion dwelt the man who was probably the 

 first person to become a legally naturalized citizen of this country. He 

 was not of Dutch blood, though he became one of the " Nine Men " who 

 constituted the council to the Governor of New Netherlands. Augustine 

 Herman was the name of this alien who helped to govern the Dutch 

 colony. He was a Bohemian, born in Prague, now almost two and 

 three-quarter centuries ago. Augustine Herman was a strenuous char- 

 acter of broad grasp, of bold conception, of enormous energy, and of 

 marvellous courage. He was all his life in some sort a merchant, yet he 

 came to be a great land-holder, and he was one of the few Americans 

 to bear a title and to be recognized as lord of the manor. Herman is 

 forgotten as a New Yorker, though his early services were such as to 

 indicate that he was a man of considerable importance during his 

 residence here, but he is a local hero in the region which he named in 

 memory of his birthplace, Bohemia Manor. He is credited by some 

 with having been the " first beginner of the Virginia tobacco trade," and 

 with having successfully experimented in indigo culture near this city. 

 He was, besides, a man of education, a surveyor by profession, a skilled 

 draughtsman, and a trusted diplomat. 



