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Here is a little piece of history about
Curtis Bay, MD, and how it was named.
A Brief History of Curtis Bay, Maryland
How did Curtis Bay receive its name? The
name "Curtis" seems to have been a part of this locality
since before the land was granted, or royal taxes imposed;
certainly before any recorded local history began. It is
known that on June 29, 1663, twenty-nine years after the
"Ark" and the "Dove" landed, the first Maryland colonists at
St. Mary's, 200 acres of land north of Arundel Cove, on
which part of the U.S. Coast Guard Yard is now located, was
"patented" to one Paul Kinsey, who named his estate "Curtis'
Neck". Kinsey was the first colonist to take title to any
property in northern Anne Arundel County. Witnessing the
document for legality was a friend, George Yates, and the
stream which marked the western limits of Kinsey's
rectangular estate was described as "Broad Creek". Sixteen
years later, on July 18, 1679, Yates acquired an adjoining
lot of 250 acres, which he named "Denchworth". In this
patent, Arundel Cove is described as the "Cove of Curtis'
Creek" and thus "Broad Creek" had taken on its present name;
indeed that "Curtis" was becoming by this time the general
designation of the section.. There has been other
speculation about the source of the name "Curtis" and
frankly, no one really knows. But according to the records,
no individual named Curtis took title to land in this area
before the name itself was in general usage. Among some of
the theories advanced for the source is one that holds that
a Curtis could have settled somewhere in this region with no
thought of making any legal claim. Another might be that he
operated a farm for an absentee landlord. In any case,
source of the name remains shrouded in mystery.

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