Acquinsicke
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Acquinsicke is a historic home located near Pomfret, Charles County, Maryland, United States. It was built between 1783 and 1798, is a highly significant example of late 18th century, early Federal architecture. It is a rectangular, two story, five bay, clapboarded frame dwelling with one-story additions to each end. The house's landscape features include a series of two terraced falls. Acquinsicke takes its name from a 1,000-acre (4 km2) tract of escheat land patented by Anthony Neale in 1704. Originally known as White's Ford and renamed Acquinsicke by Neale, the 1,000 acres (4 km2) had formerly been granted to Jerome White in 1669. White had immigrated to Maryland from England as a free adult about 1661. A Catholic, apparently well educated, he held a number of important and influential positions, including that of deputy governor in 1669 and the colony's Surveyor General, 1661–1671. White received land grants totaling more than 1,000 acres (4 km2) — most of which reverted to the Lords Baltimore when White died in England intestate and without heirs in 1677. The White's Ford grc: of 1,000 acres (4 km2) was one of those that es cheated to the proprietor. When the tract was resurveyed for Anthony Neale the boundaries were found to embrace 572 acres (2.3 km2) more than the 1,000 acres (4 km2) stipulated in White's grant. To correct this discrepancy. Neale was requested to " ... leave out the surplus age where [he] should think convenient . .. " The origin of the name Anthony Neale gave to the property is not precisely known. It is known to have derived from a word or descriptive term used by Native Americans who continued to occupy this section of Charles County at the time that Neale patented the property. It may even have been the name of a small village that once existed on or near the land. Anthony Neale's patent was recorded in 1706 and it was probably not long afterward that he established Acquinsicke as his dwelling plantation. Previous to that time he is believed to have lived on part of his father's plantation, Wollaston Manor, in the southeastern section of the county. Neale's father, Capt. James Neale, was a highly educated and well-travelled member of colonial Maryland society. He first arrived in Maryland in 1635 but did not establish formal residence in the colony until 1642 . A planter and assemblyman. James Neale held a number of provincial offices, and between 1649 and 1659 served as ambassador for Charles II and the Duke of York in Spain and Portugal. The Neales were staunch Roman Catholics and continued to be openly so throughout the 1691–1776 period when Catholics in Maryland were denied their basic civil rights. Anthony Neale's parents and their descendants established and supported a private mission at Wollaston Manor, and Anthony Neale is said to have supported the work of the Church by providing his home at Acquinsicke Society of Jesus headquartered at as a mission chapel of the St. Thomas Manor (CH-6;NR).
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Acquinsicke was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1992.
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Acquinsicke is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Acquinsicke is recorded as the industrial era.
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