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country from off the manor, then he, my son, is obliged to pay toward 

 my said board the sum of 2000 pounds of tobacco and casks, and if I 

 should happen to go to New York, then my son is to furnish me with 

 £25 in money." 



Herman's great desire was to be the founder of a baronial family. 

 His will provided that whosoever in the future should inherit the lord- 

 ship of Bohemia Manor must add to his Christian name that of Augustine, 

 or forfeit the inheritance to the next heir. He finally provided that heirs 

 male to the estate failing, it should go to found a free school and college 

 of the " English Protestant Church," under the perpetual name of Augus- 

 tine Bohemia. His will also provided for an elaborate tombstone, with a 

 proper inscription. This stone of oolite, as are the stones hard by mark- 

 ing Mason and Dixon's line, an outgrowth of the very controversy that 

 first brought Herman to Maryland, was removed from his grave and 

 used as a door for the family vault of the Bassetts, then living on a 

 portion of the manor, and in this vault was laid the body of James A. 

 Bayard the elder. After Mr. Bayard's body was removed to Wilmington, 

 Herman's tombstone fell to the ground and was broken. The inscrip- 

 tion, which was cut by a workman who did not know how to spell manor 

 or Bohemia, who is believed to have misspelled the name of the dead 

 man himself, and who blundered by a year in the date accompanying the 

 inscription, reads thus: 



\ 



AVGVSTINE HERMEN, 



Bohemian. 



The first fovnder. 



Seater of Bohemia Mairor. 



Anno 1661. 



The lands of which Herman was lord are perhaps the finest on the 

 Delaware peninsula. They lie mainly on the slope of the Chesapeake, 

 traversed by the marvellously clear and beautiful tide-water streams char- 

 acteristic of the region, dotted with fine old country homes and showing 

 evidence on every side of a long established civilization. Some descend- 

 ants of the first lord still live upon the manor, but the name has long 

 been extinct. The wife of John Randolph and the wife of Benedict Arnold 

 were both descended from Herman. 



1671. 



Noua Terras-Marise tabula. In Ogilby (John) America; 

 being the latest and most accurate descriptions of the new 

 world, fol. London, by the author, 1671, between pp. 182-183. 



