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Dodon
Dodon, (aka "Doden") is a farm and former tobacco plantation in Maryland, located near the South River about south west of Annapolis. Purchased in around 1744 by the planter and politician Dr George H. Steuart, it remains the home of Steuart's descendants to this day. Steuart grew wealthy during the colonial era thanks to proprietarial patronage, but his family's prosperity and status would be much reduced by the American Revolution and later by the American Civil War.
==History==
One source suggests that Dodon was originally patented to one James Stewart in 1669, a Scottish immigrant from Perth.〔Nelker, 132〕 Another suggests that it was owned by a Dr Francis Stockett, who "held 'Dodon', 664 acres", in 1668.〔(Warfield, J. D., p.93, ''The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland'' ) Retrieved February 25, 2010〕 Whatever its early origins, the property was thereafter owned by the Carroll family and, in 1725, William Nicholas Carroll sold it Dr George H. Steuart (1700–1784) of Argaty, Perthshire, Scotland.〔Nelker, 118,132〕〔(Harrison, Bruce, p.559, ''The Family Forest Descendants of Lady Joan Beaufort'' ) Retrieved October 2010〕 At Dodon, Steuart farmed the profitable cash crop of tobacco, bred thoroughbreds and held match races. His most famous horse was Dungannon, which he imported from England to compete against the stable of his rival Charles Carroll. The Annapolis Subscription Plate, the first recorded formal horse race in Maryland, was held in May 1743, and was won by Dungannon.〔Nelker, 118〕 The silver cup - actually more of a bowl than a plate - is now displayed in the Baltimore Museum of Art. It is the oldest surviving silver object made in Maryland and the second oldest horse racing trophy in America.
Steuart held a number of colonial offices including Mayor of Annapolis from 1759-63. He was also Commissioner of the Land Office, served at the Court of Admiralty, and was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of The Horse Militia in 1753 by Governor Horatio Sharpe.
Dodon formed a small part of the overall plantion economy of the Southern States, exporting tobacco to England, primarily using slave labor. Maryland planters also made extensive use of indentured servants and penal labor. An extensive system of rivers facilitated the movement of produce from inland plantations to the Atlantic coast for export. Baltimore was the second-most important port in the 18th-century South, after Charleston, South Carolina.
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