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By Craig O'Donnell |
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This is a compilation of genealogical items and artifacts like the boats used in Worcester County, along Maryland's Atlantic Coast. At the moment it is not very fancy, but as I add more material I will also add a better index. If there's no link saying "Click here", I haven't prepared the materials yet. My mother's side of the family comes from Worcester County, MD, where they used to live within spittin' distance of Sinepuxent Bay. One of their houses, called The Fassitt House and built about 1720, still stands, near what used to be Sinepuxent Inlet. My mother started out in about 1997 by searching for information about her great-grandmother, Laura Louise Fassitt Tingle, who lived into her 90s. That's Laura, to the left, but we didn't find her picture until February 2000. See a Tintype of Laura.
SEASIDE BATEAU (the boats are the best part)Sinepuxent Inlet disappeared after storms in the 1820s, but it's there on charts dating earlier, near South Point along Sinepuxent Bay. Only small vessels of say 10ft draft could get into the Inlet, but it was used by local merchants and by Revolutionary War blockade runners. |
The 13-foot Seaside Bateau |
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Bessie Lee, the 20-foot Seaside Bateau at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum: two-sail periauger rig or "cat-yawl". |
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1766 TAX LEVY OF WORCESTER COUNTYMany names of Colonial families. Said to be the earliest complete tax levy in Maryland. Click here. Don't ask me for more info on these names, because I don't have any. 1783 TAX ASSESSMENT / MARYLAND STATE ARCHIVESAn index of property owners in Worcester County online at the MSA. Click here.
MAP of EASTERN SHORE COUNTIES AND PARISHES, 16921755 MAP OF LOWER DELMARVAThe French copied the Fry & Jefferson map of the Atlantic colonies: Click here. 1795 MARYLAND MAP BY DENNIS GRIFFITHA piece of the Griffith map of Maryland showing towns, mills, taverns, churches in Somerset and Worcester Counties: Click here. Nice large images of other Eastern Shore counties (Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Caroline, Talbot, Dorchester) and Delaware from Griffith's map are here.
1742-1799 and 1800-1844 LAND RECORDS INDEXWORCESTER COUNTY records concerning Fassitts, from the county courthouse in Snow Hill. Click here. Note that I haven't got all of the page numbers down. 1750-1775 DELMARVA IMAGESFrom a catalog printed by the Library of Congress, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints. Click here.
1839 MARYLAND POCKET ANNUALWho's who in local county government: Dorchester, Kent, Somerset, Talbot, Worcester. Click here.
1851 MARYLAND DIRECTORYFarmers, merchants and citizens. Click here.
1852 CHART: Maryland's SeasideEarly work by the U.S. Coast Survey. What Assateague used to look like. Click here.
1891 DELMARVA DIRECTORYFarmers, merchants and citizens. Click here.
CATHOLICS OF COLONIAL DELMARVAFather Thomas Peterman of Galena, in Kent County Maryland, wrote a thorough book on Catholic settlers throughout the region. I scanned and converted his Index to text so you can check for family names. Sherry Handley has the files here:
MANUSCRIPT GUIDE / MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETYSearch this web page for items having to do with Eastern Shore counties. Let the page load completely, it's 100K, but it's easier than dealing with the Maryland Historical Society's web site. I've extracted items for you based on keywords. There may be other items in the MHS Guide, but this is a start. RHODEAH WAS A BABE, APPARENTLYJohn Cropper runs off with John Fawset's widow, circa 1680. Ah, the good old days. Click here for the story of a deathless romance. FASSITTS AFLOATHistorical notes on schooners and sloops of the Chesapeake Bay. Click here for excerpts from Geoffrey Footner's Tidewater Triumph. SEASIDE FROM THE SEA SIDENathaniel Holmes Bishop paddled a paper canoe from Canada to Florida in 1874. He passed down Sinepuxent Bay and Chincoteague Bay. See Chapter 8 in his Voyage of the Paper Canoe. (Chapter 8 begins in Lewes, Delaware, and continues from there, so anyone with roots in Delmarva will enjoy his description.) Bishop's friend in Worcester County was Mr. B. Jones Taylor living near the St. Martins River and involved in Ocean City's early days. Robins, Purnell, Whalley and other names get mentioned. WILLS & OTHER RECORDSExcerpts from land records, wills and suchlike things found in Worcester County or the Maryland State Archives. Do click here for an Address to the King and Queen from 1689 by the residents of Somerset County. PEOPLE PER SEWe're most concerned with the Fassitts of the early and mid-1800s: RUMORSI'd like to confirm these, myself: FASSITT HOUSENew Year's Day 2005: |
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Made on Mother's iMac.
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