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A Brief History of Prince Frederick, Maryland

Miles End Plantation, Prince Frederick, Maryland

The original name of the plantation was Mile's End. Bigger was a horse trader who supplemented his income by working as an appraiser and transporting settlers to the Maryland colony. Bigger accumulated several plantations in what are now St. Mary's, Calvert, and Prince George's county. Bigger married Ann Stoakley of the Puritan family for which Stoakley Road is named. On his death, Mile's End passed to his oldest son, also named John Bigger. While no one knows what structures existed at the time, there must have been farm buildings as well as at least a rudimentary dwelling. In all probability, they were located at or near the present site of Cedar Hill.

By June 2, 1700, Colonel John Bigger had transformed Mile's End from an estate of 350 acres to create a new property of 1,055 contiguous acres, now known as Bigger Plantation. Bigger was a merchant planter who bought tobacco crops from his neighbor and shipped them to London at his risk. He became wealthy from his tobacco trading activities. He became a colonel in the provincial militia, of which he was deputy commander at the time Lord Baltimore was overthrown in the Protestant Revolution of 1689. While he participated in one of the main military actions of the rebellion, Bigger was not a partisan of the Jewkes faction that plotted the rebellion. He was one of only a handful of members of the House of Burgesses, the colonial assembly, who voted against the articles of impeachment against Lord Baltimore.
  
Like most of the other leading planters in Maryland colony, Bigger was an Anglican. He played a role in the establishment of the Anglican Church in the 1690s. Bigger was also the first Treasurer of the King William School, in Annapolis, now St. John's College, the 3rd oldest college in the United States. Upon Bigger's death in 1714, his widow married Patrick Andrew who remained in residence at Bigger Plantation after her death, notwithstanding Bigger's bequest of the property to a nephew, Kendal Head. Head's son, with the unfortunate name, Bigger Head, conveyed title to James Carroll of Annapolis, who had Andrew ejected.

In the 1730's, the house was rented to and later sold to Thomas Crompton. Crompton died in 1743, and his widow married James Weems, a wealthy Calvert County planter of the same family as the legendary independent bookseller, Rev. Mason Locke (Parson) Weems. It was Weems who authored an invented biography of George Washington, which included the lovely confection about Washington chopping down the cherry tree.

James Weems held the property in trust for Crompton's son, also named Thomas Crompton. Crompton took possession in 1767 and died in 1773. Crompton left the plantation to his daughter, Mary Crompton Gantt, and thereafter to his grandson, Dr. Thomas Gantt. During Gantt?s tenure, Cedar Hill was the site of an important social event, the marriage of the eldest daughter of Capt. Edward Gantt to Thomas John Claggett, the first Episcopal bishop ordained in the United States. Claggett was also Chaplain of the U.S. Congress.