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Clean Drinking Manor Cemetery

Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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This is a family cemetery, located on what was Clean Drinking Manor. Hon. John Coates (or Courts) came to Maryland from Sproxton, England, In 1639, established Clean Drinking Manor. He received a grant from the crown in 1680 of fourteen hundred acres"in style of manor." Granddaughter of Hon. John Coates , Elizabeth Coates married a Mr. Charles Jones, the Clean Drinking Manor acres was part of her dower,and he built the Manor in 1750. The house stayed in the family for over 200 years. Many members of the Jones family are buried within the property.

The Village was originally part of one of the earliest land grants in Maryland's Potomac area. Patented in 1698, the approximately 1,400 acre parcel extended to Rock Creek on the north and east, westward to Bethesda, and south toward Chevy Chase Circle. The grant from Charles, third Lord Baltimore, was called Clean Drinking Manor, named for the spring on the property that is still bubbling today. It can be seen on park land just east of Jones Mill Road off Susanna Lane. According to legend, George Washington drank from its waters, for he wrote in his diary that he "tarried for a thankful rest at Clean Drinking's hospitable hearth.

This is a family cemetery, located on what was Clean Drinking Manor. Hon. John Coates (or Courts) came to Maryland from Sproxton, England, In 1639, established Clean Drinking Manor. He received a grant from the crown in 1680 of fourteen hundred acres"in style of manor." Granddaughter of Hon. John Coates , Elizabeth Coates married a Mr. Charles Jones, the Clean Drinking Manor acres was part of her dower,and he built the Manor in 1750. The house stayed in the family for over 200 years. Many members of the Jones family are buried within the property.

The Village was originally part of one of the earliest land grants in Maryland's Potomac area. Patented in 1698, the approximately 1,400 acre parcel extended to Rock Creek on the north and east, westward to Bethesda, and south toward Chevy Chase Circle. The grant from Charles, third Lord Baltimore, was called Clean Drinking Manor, named for the spring on the property that is still bubbling today. It can be seen on park land just east of Jones Mill Road off Susanna Lane. According to legend, George Washington drank from its waters, for he wrote in his diary that he "tarried for a thankful rest at Clean Drinking's hospitable hearth.

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  • Added: 27 May 2013
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2498215