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Source:
History of Dorchester County, Maryland
by Elias Jones
Publ. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company Press
1902
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Table of Contents:

  INTRODUCTORY TO THE HISTORY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY  
  PREFACE 9
  SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM WHICH THE HISTORY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY HAS BEEN COMPILED 11
DIVISION I. - Introductory to the History of Dorchester County. 13
CHAPTER I. -  - The CALVERT FAMILY
 - The Lords Proprieties
 - Motives for Founding a Colony by George Calvert, the First Lord Baltimore
 - His Newfoundland Colony a Failure
 - His Efforts in America
 - The Loss of His Family at Sea
 - The Preparation of the Maryland Charter
 - Charter Rights of the Proprietary
 
CHAPTER II.  - Preparation for Starting First Colonists
 - Leonard Calvert Put in Charge of the Expedition, and Appointed First Governor
 - Departure From England
 - Arrival in America
 - Found a Beautiful Land, But Faced Many Privations
20
CHAPTER III.  - First Colonial Assemblies
 - Code of Laws
 - The Proprietary's Prerogatives
 - Separation of the Assembly into Two Legislative Bodies
 - Powers of the Council
 - First Disturbing Factor, Claiborne of Kent, Richard Ingle, the Next to Interfere
 - His Alliance With  Claiborne
 -
Seizure of St. Mary's
 - Flight of Governor Calvert to Virginia
 - His Return and Re-Capture of St. Mary's
 - Death of Governor Calvert in 1647
 - Appointment of William Stone, Governor, etc.
21
CHAPTER IV.  - Reduction of Chesapeake Bay Colonies to Obedience Under the "Commonwealth"
 - Efforts of Lord Baltimore to Re-establish the Proprietary Government
 - Governor Stone's Military Efforts For the Proprietary
 - His Attack on the Puritan Capital, Defeat and Capture
 - Cromwell Commissioners in Control Until 1658
 - Discouraged by Lord Baltimore's Influence With the Protector, Surrendered Control in the Province
 - Josiah Fendall Appointed Governor
 - Usurps Authority and is Dismissed
 - Capitals of Maryland.
 

DIVISION II. - Early History of Dorchester County 31
CHAPTER I. -  - Early Settlements
 - Formation Into a County
 - Appointment of County Officers by Governor Calvert
31
CHAPTER II. -  - References to the Assembly of 1669 and 1671.
 - Other County Affairs
37
CHAPTER III. -  - Record of Location of First Court House
 - The Building of Court Houses at Cambridge
 - No Official Records of Court Proceedings Prior to 1689 Now to be Found
 - Assembly Proceedings that Affected Dorchester
 - An Act for Keeping Holy the Lord's Day
 - Levy for Paying the Public Charge
 - List of Militia-Men Sent Against the Nanticoke Indians in 1669, With Amounts Paid in Tobacco for Services
 - Miscellanies
39
CHAPTER IV. -  - The Protestant Revollution in 1689
 - Country Officials Chosen
 - King William's Approval of the Protestant Associators' Revolution
 - Continues the Provincial Officers Ad Interim
 - Lionel Copley Becomes Governor
 - Protestant Church Established by Law
 - Death of Copley
 - Governor Andros Assumed Control
 - Col. Charles Hutchins,
a Member of the Govenror's Council, 1694
 - Lieutenant-Governor Nicholson Installed Governor
 - Dorchester Subscribed to the Public School Fund
 - Revision of the Protestant Church Law, and Comments on Asembly Delegates From Dorchester and Other Counties
 - Strict Rules Governing the People and Effects
46
CHAPTER V. -  - Miscellaneous Extracts From Old Court Records at Cambridge 53
Towns and Their Descriptions 59
CHAPTER VI. -  - Location of Towns
 - Warehouses
 - Ports of Entry
 - Tobacco Inspectors
 - Appointments
59
CHAPTER VII. - CAMBRIDGE
 - Descriptive Location
 - Commercial Advantages and Facilities
 - Origin and Early History
 - Social Prominence
 - Colonial Buildings
 - Old Jail
 - Dorchester House
63
CHAPTER VIII. -  - Cambridge Towards the Revollution
 - Military Headquarters During the Revolution
 - Peaceful Attitude After the war
 - Changes Made by Civil War
 - Stimulated Enterprise
 - Town Development, and Industrial Growth
 - Social Orders
 - Newspapers
 - Churches
71
CHAPTER IX. - VIENNA 79
CHAPTER X. - EAST NEW MARKET (By Miss Pink Jacobs)
 - EAST NEW MARKET
 - HURLOCK
 - AIREYS
 - BUCKTOWN
 - LINKWOOD
87
CHAPTER XI. - WILLIAMSBURG AND WILLIAMSBURG DISTRICT
 - WILLIAMSBURG and WILLIAMSBURG DISTRICT
 - Crotcher's Ferry (Brookview)
 - GALESTOWN
 - FORK DISTRICT
 - The Lees of Virginia on North West Fork River
 - Other Families
91
CHAPTER XII. -  - CHURCH CREEK - WOOLFORD - MADISON - TAYLOR'S ISLAND - HOOPER'S ISLAND - LAKES - STRAITS. 101
   - CHURCH HISTORY 105
CHAPTER XIII. -  - THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH - THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 105
CHAPTER XIV. - THE PATERNAL BIRTHPLACE OF METHODISM - GERMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO IRELAND, WHERE THEY ARE CONVERTED TO WESLEYAN METHODISM - MANY OF THEM CAME TO AMERICA - FIRST METHODIST SOCIETY ORGANIZED IN NEW YORK - EXTRACTS FROM FREEBORN GARRETTSON'S JOURNAL. 117
CHAPTER XV. -  - GARRETSON'S JOURNAL CONTINUED - FIRST METHODIST CHURCHES IN THE COUNTY - REV. FRANCIS ASSURY'S JOURNAL OF TRAVELS IN DORCHESTER - M. E. CHURCH PROGRESS - BOEHM'S REMINISCENCES - M. E. CHURCH BRANCHES - BAPTIST CHURCH. 131
CHAPTER XVI. -  - OLD BURYING GROUNDS 137
CHAPTER XVII. - ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL HISTORY
ELECTIONS - VOTING QUALIFICATIONS - METHOD OF VOTING - ELECTION DISTRICTS - JUDGES OF ELECTION - DIVISION OF COUNTY INTO HUNDREDS - DIVISION INTO ADDITIONAL DISTRICTS - POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY.
141
CHAPTER XVIII. -  - EXCITEMENT PRECEDING THE CIVIL CONFLICT - DIVISION OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT CAUSED BY THE WAR - THE POLITICAL EFFECT PRODUCED BY "EMANCIPATION" - NEGRO SUFFRAGE INTENSELY OPPOSED. 157
CHAPTER XIX. -  - MISCELLANEOUS HISTORY (COLONIAL)
LOCATION OF PROPRIETARY MANORS - A LAND TRADE AND REFERENCE TO PETER UNDERWOOD - "JOHN'S POINT," WOOLFORD'S HOME - COPY OF PATENT FOR LAND FOR TRANSPORTING SETTLERS - SOME OLD FERRIES - QUIT-RENTS AND RENT ROLLS - ACADIAN EXILES FROM NOVA SCOTIA - CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS - CIRCUIT COURT DISTRICTS - SKETCH OF THE JUDICIARY - MEMBERS OF THE BAR AT CAMBRIDGE - TAX ON BACHELORS - MARRIAGE REQUIREMENTS - ROBERT MORRIS; HIS STORE AT CAMBRIDGE; PRICES OF MERCHANDISE THERE.
159
CHAPTER XX. -  - DORCHESTER COUNTY INDIANS - BRANCHES OF THE ALGONQUIN FAMILY - DRIVEN BY TEIR ENEMIES FROM FORMER HOMES - TOOK REFUGE ON THE EASTERN SHORE PENINSULA - CHIEF TRIBE, THE NANTICOKES - PECULIARITIES IN MEMORY OF THEIR DEAD - INDIAN CHIEF, "BILLY RUMLEY," AND HIS WHITE WIFE - ENCROACHMENTS BY WHITE SETTLERS - GRANTED RESERVATIONS BY THE LORD PROPRIETARY - EFFECT OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC UPON THE INDIANS - OTHER IMPOSITIONS - CONSPIRACY WITH THE "SIX NATIONS" TO MASSACRE THE WHITE SETTLERS IN 1742 - THEIR GRADUAL DEPARTURE FROM DORCHESTER COUNTY - REMNANTS LEFT DISAPPEARED BY INTERMARRIAGE WITH THE BLACK RACE. 170
CHAPTER XXI. -  - COLORED RACE IN DORCHESTER COUNTY.
SLAVERY DAYS - PERIOD OF FREEDOM - PROGRESS - CHURCHES.
179
CHAPTER XXII. -  - DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE IN COLONIAL DAYS. 181
CHAPTER XXIII. -  - COUNTY FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITIONS 189
CHAPTER XXIV. -  REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD, 175-1778
 - INTRODUCTION TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
 - LEADING PATRIOTS IN DORCHESTER COUNTY
 - INTEREST WHICH MARYLAND TOOK IN DEFENCE OF THE RIGHTS OF THE COLONIES
 - ORGANIZATION OF THE MILITIA IN THE COUNTY
 - VOLUNTEERS FOR THE CONTINENTAL ARMY
 - FORMATION OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT
 - DELEGATES FROM DORCHESTER COUNTY TO THE PROVINCIAL CONVENTIONS.
197
CHAPTER XXV. -  - FLYING CAMP VOLUNTEERS
 - TORIES BELOW HOOPER'S STRAITS IN COMMUNICATION WITH DUNMORE'S FLEET
 - THEIR CAPTURE BY MAJOR FALLIN'S MILITIA COMPANY
 - CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN COUNTY OFFICERS AND THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY
 - ANXIETY OF COUNTY MILITIA WITH NO ARMS FOR DEFENCE
 - OTHER COMPLAINTS OF DISLOYALTY
 - DEPREDATIONS BY CAPT. RICHARD ANDREW AND CITIZENS OF CAROLINE COUNTY, BY SEIZING SALT
 - SHOCK OF WAR AFTER THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND, AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE MILITIA AND TROOPS
 - PRIVATEERS
 - LETTERS OF MARQUE FOR "STURD BEGGAR"
 - COERCION OF TORIES IN SOMERSET AND WORCESTER COUNTIES
 - THEIR ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT IN CAMBRIDGE, IN 1777
 - PAY AND UNIFORM OF CONTINENTAL TROOPS
 - TRIALS OF A RECRUITING OFFICER IN DORCHESTER COUNTY
 - MORE MILITIA RECRUITED
 - DRAFTS MADE
 - COLLECTIONS OF BLANKETS AND CLOTHING FOR THE ARMY IN THE FIELD
 - EXTREME PRIVATIONS IN THE MARYLAND LINE.
206
CHAPTER XXVI. -  - CORRESPONDENCE IN REFERENCE TO BRITISH PRISONERS HELD AT CAMBRIDGE
 - DORCHESTER MILITIA OFFICERS, LOWER AND UPPER BATTALIONS, AND HALF BATTALION COMMISSIONED
 - PRESSING DEMAND FOR ARMY RECRUITS
 - VOLUNTEERS COMMISSIONED
 - SUBSTITUTES FURNISHED BY THE WEALTHY
 - NEW ENROLLMENT OF COUNTY MILITIA IN 1780; OFFICERS NAMED
 - 1781, LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR FROM GEN. HENRY HOOPER, EXPLAINING DRAFT, AND INVASION OF BRITISH BARGES IN THE RIVERS OF DORCHESTER COUNTY.
221
CHAPTER XXVII. -  - CORNWALLIS ENTERS CHESAPEAKE BAY AND INVADES BOTH SHORES
 - GREAT DEMAND FOR VOLUNTEERS, ARMY SUPPLIES AND TRANSPORTS FOR WASHINGTON'S AND LAFAYETTE'S SOLDIERS
 - BEEF CATTLE REQUIRED FORM DORCHESTER COUNTY
 - APPEAL TO GOVERNOR LEE FOR ARMS
 - GEN. HENRY HOOPER SENDS THE COUNTY'S QUOTA OF TROOPS TO THE ARMY
 - BARGES BUILT FOR DEFENCE AND PROTECTION OF COMMERCE ON CHESAPEAKE BAY
 - MORE TROOPS REQUIRED AND RECRUITED FOR THE ARMY
 - TWO COMPANIES OF SELECT MILITIA ORGANIZED
 - CLOSING YEAR OF THE WAR.
231
CHAPTER XXVIII. -  - COUNTRY PRODUCTS AND RESOURCES
 - TOBACCO
 - STATE OF TRADE
 - LUMBER
 - SHIPBUILDING
 - FARMING
 - INCREASED FACILITIES
 - MANUFACTURING
 - OYSTERING
 - FISHING
 - TERRAPINS
 - WILD FOWLS
 - FUR TRADE.
240
CHAPTER XXIX. -  - WAR OF 1812 - 1815 247
CHAPTER XXX. -  - EDUCATION - SCHOOLS 254
CHAPTER XXXI. -  - FEDERAL AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS FROM DORCHESTER COUNTY IN CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865.
 - FEDERAL SOLDIERS
258
CHAPTER XXXII. -  - DORCHESTER COUNTY FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW. 264
CHAPTER XXXIII. -  - HISTORICAL NOTES 266

DIVISION III. - FAMILY HISTORY, GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 269
CHAPTER I. -  - INTRODUCTORY 269
 
 - The AIREY Family 270
 - WILLIAM C. ANDERSON and his Ancestry 271
 - Col. E. E. BRALY 271
 - The BROOKE Family 272
 - The CARROLLs 275
 - The DENWOOD Family 281
 - The DORSEY Family 282
 - The DRAIN Family 285
 - The ECCLESTON Family 286
 - The ENNALLS Family 288
 - The GOLDSBOROUGH Family 293
 - The HENRY Family 299
 - The HICKS Family 309
 - The HOOPER Family 318
 - The KEENE Family 334
 - The KIRWAN Family 338
 - The LAKE Family 341
 - The LaCOMPTE Family 361
 - The MARINE Family 366
 - The PATTISON Family 373
 - Dr. FRANCIS P. PHELPS, SR. 381
 - The RICHARDSON Family 381
 - Hon JAMES F. SHEPHERD 385
 - RAYMOND STAPLEFORT 386
 - The STEVENS Family 388
 - Hon. JAMES A. STEWART 390
 - Hon. VANS MURRAY 393
 - Col. JAMES WALLACE 395
 - JAMES WALLACE 396
 - The WOOLFORDS and WHITELEY Connections 398
 
  APPENDIX
 - COLONIAL PERIOD
 - LIST OF DORCHESTER COUNTY OFFICE-HOLDERS FROM 1669 TO 1902
 - COMMISSIONERS OR JUSTICES
 - THE GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL OR UPPER HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY IN COLONIAL PERIOD, CHOSEN FROM DORCHESTER COUNTY
 - STATE SENATORS
 - STATE CONVENTIONS
 - LIST OF SHERIFFS OF DORCHESTER COUNTY AS FAR AS KNOWN.
 - GOVERNORS OF MARYLAND FROM DORCHESTER COUNTY.
 - SECRETARY OF STATE FROM DORCHESTER COUNTY
 - COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY FROM DORCHESTER COUNTY
 - COMMISSIONERS OF THE LAND OFFICE FORM DORCHESTER COUNTY
 - CLERKS OF DORCHESTER COUNTY COURTS
 - COURT JUDGES FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INCLUDING DORCHESTER COUNTY.
 - ASSISTANT COURT OFFICERS IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF DORCHESTER COUNTY COURT, AT PRESENT.
 - STATE'S ATTORNEYS, DORCHESTER COUNTY.
 - REGISTERS OF WILLS
 - SOME MEMBERS OF THE ORPHANS' COURT OF DORCHESTER COUNTY.
 - PUBLIC SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
 - U. S. SENATORS FROM DORCHESTER COUNTY
 - U. S. CONGRESSMEN FROM DORCHESTER COUNTY
 - POSTOFFICES AND POSTMASTERS IN DORCHESTER COUNTY IN 1902
 - ROSTER OF VOLUNTEERS FROM DORCHESTER COUNTY
 
  INDEX  

LISTS OF ILLUSTRATIONS:

   
Castle Haven - Frontispiece  
Baptist Mission Church 76
Bethel African M. E. Church 180
Camridge High School 254
Carroll Toms 280
Christ P. E. Church 136
COATS OF ARMS:  
  CARROLL 275
  GOLDSBOROUGH - HENRY 299
  HOOPER 319
  KEENE 335
  LAKE 342
  VANS MURRAY 304
COUNTY JAIL 58
COURT HOUSE 52
DORCHESTER HOUSE (Colonial) 68
DORSEY WYVILL HOUSE 284
EAST NEW MARKET HIGH SCHOOL 86
EDMONDSON HOUSE 90
GRACE M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH 78
HAMBROOK 304
HAMBROOK BAY 12
HICKS MONUMENT 318
HOOPER HOUSES 88
LEE MANISON (Colonial) 98

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