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For those interested in the area around Blackfoot Town or who are researching the Eastern Shore I recommend the following excellent site if you have not already checked it out. They will be adding more in the future. I can’t wait for them to get more into the early eighteenth century, but there is some interesting stuff there now.
http://nabbhistory.salisbury.edu/
“The Nabb Research Center collects and preserves archival material, artifacts, books – including family history, maps, and microfilm pertaining to the Delmarva Peninsula. Delmarva includes the Eastern Shore of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia and was a gateway from the Chesapeake Bay region in the earliest days to the bounty and promise of America.”
http://nabbhistorysalisbury.edu/Research.htm
“The Nabb Research Center holds:
• Over 5,000 volumes relating to Native Americans, cartography, Columbus and other topics in American history.
• Over 2,000 published volumes relating exclusively to the Delmarva region.
• Land survey records (Miles and Shockley Collections).
• Folklore archives.
• Over 2,500 microfilms of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia public records.
• Census Microfilm.
• Special Collection Microfilm
• Over 1500 maps.
• Over 20,000 items listed in archival database:
• Extensive Delmarva culture collections.”, etc.
http://www.delmarvasettlers.org/
http://www.delmarvasettlers.org/profiles/maps2.html
“Part of Joannes De Laet’s 1630 map showing the locations of American Indian groups in the Chesapeake region. ” –Note Tochawoghs on the map.
http://www.delmarvasettlers.org/resources/warrant.html
“Abstract of Somerset County land patents from 1670 to 1681, including property names, acreage, and topographical features”
Brenda
What’s the name of the thread with all that great research you all were posting to a month or two ago? I tried to find it and couldn’t.
It may have been one of these:
http://www.saponitown.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1744
Blackfoot Town and Indian River Indians
Early Wayland Near Conoy Creek c. 1773
http://www.saponitown.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1724
Tracking Down the Green Family
http://www.saponitown.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=521&highlight=tracking+green
http://www.saponitown.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1796
Blackfoot Sighting in Dorseyville, PA
I have some things at these links that I need to get back and follow up on. Seems like life draws me off so easily, but I think we were coming up with some good ideas.
Brenda
I stumbled on the link I saved that is a family that I followed from Dagsboro to the area around Blackfoot Cemetery. Here it is : http://www.dmitchelljones.org/nextp6.htm . Later, I found a genforum message on this Prettyman group that stated that there was Blackfoot Indian in the family. We found this name earlier in one of the links we were discussing : http://www.saponitown.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1744&perpage=15&highlight=prettyman&pagenumber=2 . It is listed under “Dagsborough Hundred history.” A name that links and also is in the area of Blackfoot Town is Marvel.
Just a few of my names listed on that link, yours too, Linda – Potter, Hudson, Huston, Green, Walker (although that is in my grandfather’s line that links to the Swearingens), etc.
Techteach
The folks at MidAtlantic Archives are doing a good job extracting records such as tax lists. I have starred some of the individuals I have questions about, but there are other surnames here that I know folks are interested in:
“Title: Lewis and Rehoboth Hundred Tax Assessment 1785
http://www.midatlanticarchives.com/db_de_sussex_co/lewis_rehoboth_taxlist_1785/pg002.htm
Source Type: Book (History of Delaware 1609-1888)
Author: J. Thomas Scharf
Publisher: L. J. Richards & Co., Philadelphia
Year: 1888
Database Type: Extract
Name
Adams, John
Arnold, William
Bignal, Joseph
Bailey, Joseph
Bowman, John
Bignal, William
Bruce, Alexander
Bailey, Nathaniel
Bryan, Jonathan
Brill, Joshua
Bailey, William
Baird, Humphrey
Buston, John
Brocton, William
Conner, Daniel
Coulker, Calvin
Cameron, Andrew
Conally, Francis
Craig, John
Craig, Edward
Coffin, William
Caddy, John
Coleman, William
Chambers, James
Charles, James
Charles, Esau.
Coulter, Thomas
Coulter, William
Dodd, William
Dodd, Hebron
Drain, John
Darby, Joseph
Diper, Joseph
Davis, John
Drain, Caldwell
Emmit, Levin
Edwards, Simon
Emmit, Samuel
Fisher, William
Fleming, Archibald
Fisher, Henry
Fisher, Thomas
Fisher, Jabez
Fisher, John
Fisher, Joshua
Green, Richard
Gill, William
Gordon, Thomas
Gordon, Nathaniel
Green, Ambrose
Halls , David
Howard, Richard
Hall , William
Holland, Isaac
Holland, William
Holland, Hannah
Harmonson, John
Harmonson, Peter
Hall , Thomas
Hazzard, Nathan
Hall , Adam
Hazzard, Uriah
Hart, Jacob
Hall , Simon
Irwin, Brindley
Jeffries, William
Jacobs, Alburtus
Jones, Penalope
Jacobs, William
Jacobs, Sarah
Jackson, John
Kollock, Margaret
Kollock, Jacob
Kollock, Hercules
Killem, Henry
Kollock, Philip
Lewis, Wrixham
Little, Richard
Little, Nicholas
Little, John
Lawes, Noble
Lawes, William
Maull, John
Maull, William
Miller, Josiah
Massey, Robert
Marshall, John
McCracken, John
Martin, James
Martin, Josiah
Marsh, Peter
Marsh, Thomas
Marsh, John
Moore, Jacob
Morris, Levi
Murphy, Daniel
Marshall, Aaron
Martin, Elizabeth
McHam, Thomas
Neill, Henry
Newbold, James
Newbold, William
Nunez, Hannah
Newman, William
Oliver, Charles
Oakey, Thomas
Oakey, Saunders
Oakey, Robert
Orr, John
Prettyman, Sheppard
Paynter, Samuel ******
Prettyman, John********?
Parker, Peter
Parker, Anderson
Pride, Suthy
Peters, Abigail
Paynter, Reece********
Parker, George
Parsons, John
Paynter, Cornelius ********
Rowland, Samuel
Rowland, Thomas
Rodney, John
Russell, John
Riccords, Lovin
Riccords, Thomas
Rhoads, John
Russell, Philip
Roach, Levi
Roach, William
Riccords, Thomas [another spelling for Rickards???]
Still, William ***********
Stockley, William
Shankland, David
Shield, Luke
Shankland, Rhoads
Stockley, Jacob
Stevenson, David
Steel, William *******
Stockley, Elizabeth
Shankland, Robert
Steel, John *********
Train, David
Thompson, James
Thompson, Samuel
Turner, Isaac
Thomson, William
Triglahan, Philip
Turner, John
Vint, James
Virdin, Marriner
Waves, William
Wirt, William
Wiltbank, Robert John
Wiltbank, George
White, Wrixham
Woolf, Reece
Woolf, John
Woolf, Jonathan
Walker, Thomas
Wright, Peter
White, Isaac
White, William
Wirtley, John
Wyatt, Packer
White, Peter
Wright, Thomas
White, Newcomb
West, Thomas
Wiltbank, Cornelius
White, John
White, Paul
Walker, Jacob
Wilson, Thomas
Walker, George
Wiles, Robert “
The challenge for me is establishing a link for my known George Steel to this Sussex County, DE group of Steel/Steal/Steele folks.. or NOT.
The historical and genalogical challenge for me is sorting through the “white” families, “free black” families, and “Indian familes” carrying the same surname. Not even sure if it is possible, at least for someone like me of limited time and means.
The folks at Mitsawokett are doing a good job on their individual families, but the first identified ancestor in some of their lines are later than the time frame we are looking at, especially in the case of out-migration. I would like to understand the nature of every-day life and “contact” in Colonial MD & DE and discover when the Indian first came into particular family lines. Or, perhaps the surnames were acquired in another way than by birth….
Out migration patterns like the ones to Indiana that Cindy has highlighted here also seem important to understand, other locations would include Ohio and Rowan Co., NC. It may be a very long time before we understand some of these things, but the information about migrations like Cindy has just posted I feel are important to keep fresh in our memory banks.
Brenda
As I am becoming more and more convinced of the significance of this area, over break I plan to read again Ned Heite’s “Invisible Indians” and get and read Helen Rountree’s study on Maryland and Eastern Shore Indians that Tom or Roy suggested I read. It might be a good time to read more of C. S. Weslager’s work, too. I need to get out of my own little box and cultivate my understanding of the bigger picture, say, about 1700 through 1790.
Brenda
Originally posted by techteach
I stumbled on the link I saved that is a family that I followed from Dagsboro to the area around Blackfoot Cemetery. Here it is : http://www.dmitchelljones.org/nextp6.htm . Later, I found a genforum message on this Prettyman group that stated that there was Blackfoot Indian in the family. We found this name earlier in one of the links we were discussing : http://www.saponitown.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1744&perpage=15&highlight=prettyman&pagenumber=2 . It is listed under “Dagsborough Hundred history.” A name that links and also is in the area of Blackfoot Town is Marvel.
Just a few of my names listed on that link, yours too, Linda – Potter, Hudson, Huston, Green, Walker (although that is in my grandfather’s line that links to the Swearingens), etc.
Techteach
Cindy,
I have been running into the name Marvel used as a Christian name in some interesting places. …
Right now, I am trying to piece together a picture of the Steale/Steal/Steel families in Worcester, MD & Sussex, DE, because there is perhaps a coincidental connection with a LOWRY in my known Steeles once they are in the SW VA / east TN area, and there appears to also be a LOWRY connection in the Wm. & Rachel Poynter Steale of MD/DE family… Incidentially, Rachel’s first husband was Prisgrave WILLLIAMS. After his death, she married William Steal/Steel. Rachel inherited Edward’s Lott from her father Edward Poynter, so maybe Risdon is her son from the marriage to Prisgrave. I found the following land transaction sited that mentions a fellow MARVEL LOWRY! I have no idea yet who MArvel Lowry might be. [ I need the children of William and Rachel Steal and what became of them after about 1756.]
From a Purnell family chart:
“137. Rebecca5 Smith (?Daughter4 Purnell, Thomas3, Thomas2, Thomas1) birth date unknown.
She married James Porter before 1768. James died 1772 in Worcester Co., MD. Blacksmith. James bought 100 acres “Edwards Lott” in 1759 from William & Rachel Steel, Risdon Williams and Marvel Lowry, now called “Porters Double Purchase.” In 1770, he bought another part of “Edwards Lott” from Thomas Purnell and Nathaniel Ennis. 1782 and 1783 tax list shows Purnell Porter with 100 acres “Edwards Lott, ” 4 males, 1 female, Quepongo Hundred.
Will dated December 26, 1770, probated January 25, 1771 named wife Rebecca, daughter Mary and sons Purnell Smith Porter and Samuel, leaving Purnell tract “Pointers Gift to Purnell” (aka Edwards Lott); witnesses: James Round, Ann Smith and Edward Davis. She was called Rebecca Porter in her father’s will. Rebecca and James Porter sold 100 acres of “Timber Grove” to Thomas Purnell of Thomas. “
Brenda,
You do know that there are Steeles buried in Blackfoot Cemetery, don’t you? http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpike/Monbfot.htm?o_xid=9872&o_lid=9872&o_xt=39580444
I have several surnames there too – Green, Metcalf, Mason. All of these surnames are also found around Blackfoot Town.
Techteach
PS: When you search the DE database whose URL I posted earlier, it lists Ricords, Riccords, Ricketts, and, I believe, Richards, as somewhat interchangeable. And there are Rickets in Blackfoot Cemetery and in my family. Green is the only direct one; the others intermarry and/or move together. Metcalf was in WVA with Greens. Ricketts in PA with the Sinkeys. And Mason is found in the same location in Ohio as this entire bunch.
I found a couple more interesting links :
http://www.state.de.us/sos/dpa/exhibits/document/17th/bakna.shtml#TopOfPage
If you click on the highlighted document numbers on this page, it takes you to original documents of the sale of Delaware land by NA. Also, http://delgensoc.org/dedivide.html provides an early map of Delaware.
Techteach
Here’s another : http://www.state.de.us/sos/dpa/exhibits/document/17th/documents/docindex.shtml#TopOfPage
although this might go into the original source documents thread too.
Techteach
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