Notes for Norman Bruce

Notes for Norman Bruce

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!"History of Bruceville"; Carroll County Times article for 1 May 1994, By Joe Getty:
We find at this time, the land south of the creek belonged to John Ross Key. Norman Bruce desiring the Key property for the purpose of erecting a mill on Big Pipe Creek, entered into negotiations with Key, which resulted in an exchange of their estates. Norman Bruce married in 1764, Susanna Key, daughter of Philip Key, of St. Mary's county, the first settler of that name in America. Philip Key had six children. The third son was Francis, the grandfather of Francis Scott Key. Susanna received from her father by will, fourteen hundred acres of land being one-half of "Terra Rubra."
Bruce took up large land grants in Frederick county, (now Carroll) and became a large land holder . . .[his] property contains now several villages, about five flour and grist mills, several factories, shops of various kinds, two railroads passing through said land, with fine stations and warehouses. He was sheriff of Frederick county, an officer in the Revolution, one of the first Justices of the Peace, who formed the County Court of Frederick county, of the new government in 1777, and Justice of the Levy Court in 1803. He had three children; Upton Scott Bruce, who settled near Cumberland on land called the Glades; Charles Key Bruce, who went to Scotland, and the West Indies, and did not return until he was an old man; he brought with him valuable presents, some of them still belonging to the family. He never married and died on Long Island; Elizabeth Key Bruce, a beautiful girl who attended the assembly balls when her father represented his county in the Legislature in 1778. The dresses she wore are still preserved, together with china bearing the Bruce coat of arms. She married John Scott, the nephew of Dr. Upton Scott, of Annapolis.
Norman Bruce died April 25th., 1811. After John Scott married Elizabeth Bruce, he built the large stone house on the hill now owned by Edwin H. Sharetts. It was built about the year 1812, and cost ten thousand dollars. They had five children. Upton Scott, Susanna who died in infancy, Mrs. John Brooke Boyle of Westminster, Mrs. Daniel Swope and Dr. Norman B. Scott, who still survives. John Scott died of sciatic rheumatism, Feb. 28th., 1841. Elizabeth Bruce Scott, his wife, died in 1864 in Westminster, aged 84 years.