The one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of Baltimore, occurring in 1880, has produced several records. The city commemorated the event, and printed the next year a _Memorial Volume, 1730-1880_, edited by Edward Spencer;[636] and the _Proceedings of the Historical Society, October 12, 1880_, constitutes no. 16 of their Publication Fund series. Mr. J. Thomas Scharf, who had published his _Chronicles of Baltimore_ in 1874, elaborated the matter into the more extensive _History of Baltimore City and County_, in 1881, published at Philadelphia. There is a plan of the city showing its original and present bounds in this last book (p. 62), as well as in the same writer’s _History of Maryland_ (i. 416). In 1752 there was printed a _List of families and other persons residing in Baltimore_, and this has been thought to be the earliest directory of an American town. In the same year there was a view of Baltimore by John Moales, engraved by Borgum, which is the earliest we have.[637] The coarse, hearty, and somewhat unappetizing life of the colony, as it appeared to a London factor, who about the beginning of the eighteenth century sought the country in quest of a cargo of tobacco, is set forth amusingly, as well as in a warning spirit, in a rough Hudibrastic poem, _The Sot-weed Factor, by Eben Cook, Gent._[638] (London, 1708.) There are modern studies of the life of the last century in Lodge’s _Short History of the English Colonies_, in the seventh chapter of Neill’s _Terra Mariæ_, and in the last chapter of Doyle’s _English Colonies_; but the most complete is that in the first chapter of the second volume of Scharf’s _History of Maryland_, whose foot-notes and those of Lodge will guide the investigator through a wide range of authorities.[639] Illustrations of the religious communions are given in Perry’s _History of the American Protestant Episcopal Church_ (i. 137), in the _Historical Collections of the American Colonial Church_ (vol. iv.), in Anderson’s _American Colonial Church_, in Hawks’s _Ecclesiastical Contributions_ (section on “Maryland”), and in Theodore C. Gambrall’s _Church Life in Colonial Maryland_ (Baltimore, 1885).[640] The spread of Presbyterianism is traced in C. A. Briggs’s _American Presbyterianism_, p. 123. [Illustration: MAP OF MARYLAND]