An American Family History

Maxwell's Conclusion was on Gunpowder Neck in Baltimore County, but is now in Harford County, Maryland and Rickett Point Road led to Rickett Point. It is just south of Edgewood. Rickett Point and Sprye's Island which was part of Maxwell's Conclusion have washed away.

Oliver Spry patented a 640-acre tract of land known as Sprys Inheritance in 1658. Sprys Inheritance and the island passed from Oliver Spry to his daughter Mary Strandsby in 1683 as part of Maxwell's Conclusion a tract of 1,623 acres.

In 1731 James Maxwell the Elder had Maxwell's Conclusion resurveyed after his father's death so that it could be divided for his sisters: Phillisyanna Day, Eliza Ricketts, and Elizabeth Waltham (Mrs. Thomas).

In 1754 a division of Maxwell's Conclusion was finally made between the three daughters, heirs of James Maxwell.

The Maxwell-Day house was built on a small peninsula that jutted out into the Gupowder River. It was probably built shortly after Phillisyanna inherited her third of Maxwell's Conclusion.

1783 Assessment of Maxwell's Conclusion in Harford County, Gunpowder Upper and Gunpowder Lower Hundred
Thomas Strong - 200 acres. (son-in-law of Benjamin and Eliza Ricketts)
John Day, Jr.- 200 acres.
John Day, Sr. - 314 acres.
Lambert Wilmer -200 acres (son-in-law of Benjamin and Eliza Ricketts)

John Day's will, was written December 15, 1782 and probated February, 1784. It named Maxwell's Conclusion. He was Phillisyanna Maxwell Day's husband.

August 15, 1797 Thomas Contee foreclosed the mortage on Maxwells Conclusion that Joseph Strong, Thomas Strong, James Strong, William Strong, Eleanor Strong, Sarah Biddison, and Jeremiah Biddison had made.

In 1807 deed Charlotte Waltham deeded one third part of Maxwell's Conclusion including a small island known as Spryes Island to Samuel Rickets.