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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.