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1780.] EaaterD counties to settle in this section of couutry. From what is now Frederick county came most of the early settlers about Fort Cumberland, nearly all of them being emigrants from Germany and England. Settlements sprung up at Fort Cumberland, Oldtown, on George's Creek, and at points further west. Frederick county then embraced all the Western part of Maryland, and it was not until 1776 that Washington county was taken from it. In 1789 Allegany county was organized.

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