1777

Transfer of Isaiah and Hannah Boone from Virginia to Sandy Spring Friends Meeting marks first recorded entry of Meeting members named other than Brooke or Thomas; Baltimore Yearly Meeting bans Quaker buying and selling of slaves

1781

Quaker Monthly Meeting imposes "disownment" banishment from Meetings of Friends still holding slaves

1783

Treaty of Paris ends the Revolution and recognizes the United States

1784

James Brooke dies; distribution of his estate (now nearly 20,000 acres) takes five years

1794

William Stabler family arrives at Harewood, part of Deborah Stabler's inheritance from her mother, Elizabeth Brooke Pleasants

1800

Richard and Deborah Brooke Thomas lay out a town they call "Brooke Ville" largely on land she inherited

1801

Earliest records of Oakdale Emory United Methodist Church

1802

Post Office and store established at Brookeville, Caleb Bentley postmaster. Town quickly becomes a major commercial center boasting two tanneries, a grist mill, a mill for grinding flaxseed into oil, several stores, and two doctors

1803

Thomas Moore patents refrigerator (a name he also invented)