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Jae:
I have Greens and Lanes in my family line. They were around the Berkeley County, MD area (Greens) and the Beaver County, PA area with others of different names near Huntington, PA.
Cindy
Cindy – I’m not sure where the Lanes came from. Even though I know that Edward Lane went to Kent County, Maryland and found a wife among the Briscoe Family. If I ever get ahold of my cousin – he can tell me the name of the area outside of Pocomoke that they recently located a very old Lane Cemetery. Since he is a Lane, he is more of an authority on that side of the Family. I had been told that our Lane’s came from Worcester County, Maryland. While others have said Virginia. What ever the case, by water Virginia and Worcester County area become one.
I am reviving this old link because not only have I missed a lot over the years, but I am interested in seeing if anyone has followed Bess’s suggestion and been successful with any further reseach into Dagworthy.
I found this reference listed at the Delaware Historical Society:
Marshall, George W. “Memoir of Brigadier General John Dagworthy.” Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware 2, no. 10 (1895).
Proceedings at the Unveiling of the Monument Erected to the Memory of General John Dagworthy.” Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware 5, no. 48 (1908).
http://www.state.de.us/sos/dpa/collections/revolutionary%20war%20record/revguiderev.shtml
Has anyone checked this out?
I would like to know about his activities between wars, the people that worked for him, their occupations, his business interests around the swamp and Blackfoot Town.
Also, interested in the Briscoe reference in this thread.. there was a John Mounts and unknown Brisco marriage in Maryland…. and a Brisco was involved in some land transactions/estate settlements involving estate of Joseph Mounts, son of Lt. Col. Providence Mounts of Fayette Co., PA. The land was around the Dix or Dick’s River in Kentucky.
Thanks a bunch,
Brenda
Originally posted by Bess
Hello,
Jae
I looked over your current and previous posts to see if I had anything in my files that might help. What follows is all that I have come up with at the moment.
I was wondering if you had tried to trace some of your family surnames back to local records covering the lower section of Sussex County near Dagsboro? If not, you may want to give it a try. In the past when I did some research in this part of the county, on “Blackfoot town”, I came across some of the surnames you mentioned: COLLINS, SELBY, GUMBY, JACKSON, BELL, GREEN.
Do you know what route the father of Edward Jackson (your gggfather) took when he returned to Delaware (1830s)? A correct answer to this question would greatly increase the possibility of finding him in Delaware records. You may have already considered this, but let me state it anyway: if he took the most logical route from Shelltown, he probably would have gone straight up the Pokomoke River. This would have taken him past the town of Snowhill (12 miles upstream) and past the border (DE/MD) to Pokamoke Swamp (ca. 25 miles up river). Here, in the middle of Pokamoke swamp, your gggfather would have entered the portage between the headwaters of the Nanticoke River and the headwaters of Pepper Creek, a tributary of Indian River. Today, this region would be centered along the 20-mile stretch between the towns of Broad Creek, Laurel, and Dagsboro, Delaware. However, in 1760s, Pokamoke swamp was an extremely remote area, and it was the property of John Dagworthy. He was granted this land after 1759 by the MD legislature for his service in the so-called “French and Indian war”(1755-63). Also, consider this, had you gggf returned to Pokamoke swamp (and not another region of Delaware further north) he would have come within a few miles of “Blackfoot town” which was about five miles east of the Swamp. Further, if he remained in the middle of Pokamoke swamp, he would have been standing on the of historic site of Winnasoccum, the location of the planned Indian uprising in 1742 where Tutelo, Seneca, Shawnee and Canoy met with Nanticike and “Indian River Indians” to plot against the British. If your gggfather Jackson‘s people actually grew up in this area, before locating in Shelltown, then there is a good possibility he was of Tutelo/Blackfoot and Lenni Lenape ancestry.
Of course, much of this is speculation. Yet there are some facts that suggest a possible connection that would warrant further research. When John Dagsworthy died in 1784, his LWT mentions a niece named Abigail BELL (1). In 1782 John Dagworthy sold to Levi Collings? (COLLINS) a parcel of land in Pokamoke Swamp. When Adrew Collins of the same area wrote his LWT in May, 1784 it mentions a daughter named Polly JACKSON (2), Other of your surnames such as SELBY, GREEN AND GUMBY were carried by families labeled as “white” and “colored” who occupied property in the 19th century that was formerly owned by Dagworthy or adjacent to his property. The property of William Green (European settler) was adjacent to Dagsworhty on the western front and was purchased by the state of MD to create the Broad Creek Reservation for the Nanticoke tribe in 1717. (3). Consequently, I think it would be prudent to look into the private and public papers of John Dagworthy’s family (and those connected to him) on file in Sussex County, DE and Worcester County, MD. You may not find Edward Jackson’s father, but you may get a lead in that direction.
Do you have any idea as to how the Cherokee ended up in your area in south Delaware? It may be that John Dagsworthy may have had a hand in their migration.
Notes:
(1) Sussex County, Arch vol. A68:1-3; Reg of Wills, Lib er D, folios 52-54
(2) Sussex County, Arch vol A65:129
(3) Thomas J Scharf , The History of Delaware. L.J. Richards Co.,(1888) Vol. 2:1285-1292
Good luck,
Bess Veney
I did find out that he had a beef with George Washington. I think he felt he should have his position during the Revolution if I remember correctly. He then spent the war at home in DE fighting his local Tories (Again if I remember correctly).
Techteach
I did find this little bit of info. on Dagworthy as well:
“General John Dagworthy, commander of the Sussex County Militia during the Revolutionary War, is regarded as Dagsboro’s founding father after establishing industry in the area with grist and lumber mills, tanneries, and an export business shipping cypress lumber to Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey………”
“Dagworthy, who used land near Dagsboro to train his militia, had a long, distinguished and controversial military career that included service in the French and Indian War and a feud with George Washington after Dagworthy refused to take orders from the then 24-year-old Virginia militia colonel. Dagworthy felt that as a British Army Captain, he outranked Washington.
Dagworthy went on to serve admirably in the French and Indian War and received large tracts of land from the Maryland Assembly in the Dagsboro, Gumboro and Broad Creek Hundreds of Sussex County, which at the time were part of Maryland.
When the Revolutionary War began, however, Washington, now commander-in-chief, refused to assign Dagworthy a command post on the battlefield. Dagworthy was later commissioned a Brigadier General by the Continental Congress.”
http://www.sussexcountyonline.com/towns/dagsboro/dagworthy.html
I would like to find out more about the businesses he ran and who worked there.
I’m guessing the cypress was from the Pokomoke Swamp we talked about being the site of the 1742 uprising “conspiracy.” Tanneries would require a lot of hides from somewhere.
Brenda
I”m from cumberland county NJ.my indian lines are from ky,va,nc only my dad is from this area and his lines are all white.I know many of the supposed lenape in this area.while they may have indian blood in them I doubt it”s lenape.the last lenape in jersey was Indian mary and she died on the brotherton reservation in present day fort dix in the 1800″s.here”s a write up of the origins of the cumberland county goulds,pierces,green and ridgeways
http://www.getnj.com/njags/tours/tour29.shtml
GOULDTOWN, 26 m. (85 alt., 700 pop.), is a colony of mulattoes, the descendants of four mulatto families that have intermarried for more than 175 years with only an occasional infiltration of other blood. These four families were named Gould, Pierce, Murray, and Cuff. The Goulds are believed to be descendants of John Fenwick, Quaker proprietor of the “Salem Tenth” in West New Jersey, who colonized this region. Elizabeth Adams, a granddaughter of Fenwick, who inherited 500 acres of land and married a Negro named Gould, is considered the founder of Gouldtown. Richard and Anthony Pierce, West Indian mulattoes, also settled here about 1750. They paid the passage from Holland for white sisters, Maria and Hannah Van Vaca, and married them upon arrival. The Murrays are believed to be of Indian descent; and the original Cuff was a slave who married his former master’s widow. The residents of Gouldtown are a hard-working, highly respected people.
The community stretches for several miles along the highway and nearby dirt roads. The houses, mostly small and weather-beaten, are set off in small farms. It has always been a problem for Gouldtown residents to wrest a living from their scanty acres, and the countryside bears evidence of the struggle. The general effect of Gouldtown is somewhat subdued in keeping with these people who refuse to accept a Negro status, but cannot be classed as whites.
Between Gouldtown and Millville State 49 passes through successive areas of farm land and forest, steadily becoming flatter as the highway approaches tidewater.
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