The Samuel James Merrick house on Bruceville Rd. near Trappe, Md. in the 1920s. The house is unusual in that it has three front doors. Also, note the five rocking chairs on the porch (one of them for a child); this was before air conditioning.     In later years, the farm was occupied by Capt. Sam Merrick's sons Samuel and Leslie. Samuel became deaf as a post and refused to wear a hearing aid. Since you had to yell at him at full volume to make him hear you, it was said that on a still night, you could hear the two brothers "conversing" with each other half way to Trappe. In the 1960s, they razed the house and replaced it with a brick ranch house. The many out buildings on the farm are long gone.     It must have been one of the prize farms in the area at one time.