OLD SOMERSET ON THE EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND A Study in Foundations and Founders BY CLAYTON TORRENCE This 557 page book, written in 1935 contains a 15 page index. Price $35.00 Plus $3.00 S&H Total $38.00 DMK Heritage 12303 Indian Mound Austin, TX 78758 You can contact us at: dmkheritage.austin.rr.com Or visit our web site at http://www.dmkheritage.com/store/ Table of Contents I-BREAK OF DAY Somerset, 1666-References to Area 1608, 1620 and 1656-The Eastern Shore of Maryland and Isle of Kent Settlement-The Lower Eastern Shore, where Maryland joined Virginia-Lord Baltimore fears encroachment on his territory-Settlements directed "for the better publication and remembrance of the bounds between Maryland and Virginia"-Virginia and the Quakers November 6, 1661: Maryland's response to the petition of certain "inhabitants of Northampton, otherwise called Accomack, in Virginia"-Territorial unit of "the Eastern Shore"-Settlements Established-Wicomico Indians Object-State of Plantation, May, 1662-Progress: Civil and Military Organization- Commissions of 1662 and 1663. II-A STORM AT SUNRISE Annemessex and the Quakers-Manokin: Seat of Authority Scarburgh, "Surveyor General and Treasurer of his Majesty for Virginia," claims lands of Manokin-Annemessex settlers-Elzey, of the Commission for the Eastern Shore, refuses demand for subjection-To his Lordship's Council for Maryland: Elzey's appeal on behalf of the settlement- Maryland authorities appeal to the Governor of Virginia-Virginia Assembly's "Act Concerning the Bounds of This Colony on the Eastern Shore"-Scarburgh invades Manokin-Annemessex--Annemessex, the Defiant, and Manokin, the Amenable-Accomack Court's response to Manokin settlers' appeal-Governor Calvert "in person" to Governor Berkeley, of Virginia, and the Commission to Chancellor Philip Calvert to conclude the affair-The agreement of June, 1668. III-AS CLOUDS ROLLED AWAY Manokin-Annemessex secured in their allegiance to the Maryland government-Commissions for "the Eastern Shore" in February, 1663/4, and May, 1664-The Commission of August 25, 1665. Significance of this Commission-Increase in population and expansion of settlements-First court, of which record remains" A Person to Keepe ye Records"- Governor Calvert sends the court a clerk. IV-THEN A PERFECT DAY IN SUMMER Somerset County created by proclamation, August 22, 1666-The proclamations commission of the peace, clerk of court and sheriff "Captain of All the Forces"-First court for Somerset, September 4, 1666-First marriages, constables, surveyors of highways, and grand jury-Highway for the county and boundaries of the hundreds-Affairs from March, 1667, to October, 1668-The first free Negroes-Somerset County's first election of representatives to the General Assembly. V-THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH (1) Followers of the Inner Light: The Quakers who settled Annemessex- Meeting places and the "Meeting House"-A lone beacon of the Inner Light on Wicomico-George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends, visits Somerset-The Quakers of Monie Meeting place and the "Meeting House" and burial ground The Bogerternorton meeting and its membership-Meeting place, the "Meeting House" and burial ground (2) Voice of the People: Earliest remaining record of a Baptism in Somerset, 1669-The grand jury of Somerset Court, March, 1671/2, renders "opinion" that regular religious services should be held in the county-Four places designated-Religious affiliations of grand jurymen rendering the "opinion," and of members of the court to whom it was rendered-Locations of preaching places in Pocomoke, Annemessex, Manokin and Wicomico Hundreds-Robert Maddock, preacher- Benjamin Salisbury, Morgan Jones, Robert Richardson and David Richardson (3) Of Ancient and Apostolic Lineage: The Church of England in Somerset-Early Churchmen-Liberal type of churchmanship-Earliest remaining records of Burial, Baptism and Marriage, according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England-Captain Thomas Walker's bequest in May, 1680 John Huett, first resident clergyman of the Church of England in Somerset-Organization of the church in Somerset under the Assembly's Act of 1692 establishing the Church of England in the Province of Maryland-Parishes of Somerset, Coventry, Stepney and Snow Hill created-Time and places designated by the court for first election of vestries-Members of the first vestries Parish Churches erected-Trotter, rector of Stepney and Somerset, Brechin, rector of Coventry Notes: Pocomoke Church, 1692, Parish Churches and Chapels of Ease (4) Children of the Covenant: Planting of the Presbyterian Church in Somerset-Earliest identified Presbyterians-William Stevens' appeal to the Presbytery of Laggan in 1680-First ministers of Presbyterian faith and order-Francis Makemie, father of organized Presbyterianism in America-William Traile, of Rehoboth-Samuel Davis, of Snow Hill- Thomas Wilson, of Manokin-Erection of Presbyterian Church buildings in Somerset: Rehoboth, Snow Hill, Manokin and "at the road going up along the Seaside." Notes: Wicomico Presbyterian Congregation; Meeting House of 1697 "at the road going up along the sea side"; Buckingham Presbyterian Congregation; "Meeting House near Mrs. Edgar's," 1706; Pitts Creek Presbyterian Congregation; Some Other Early Presbyterian Places of Worship . . . . . VI-ORIGINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Human, Professional, Mercantile and Industrial. The Northampton- Accomack background of Somerset's first settlers-Social and economic status in Virginia-Names of the first settlers of Somerset-European origins of settlers-Status of families in Somerset-The first doctors, teachers, attorneys, traders, merchants, tradesmen. VII-FOUNDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stephen Horsey-Ambrose Dixon-Randall Revell-John Elzey--William Thorne-John Odber-Thomas Price-George Johnson -Henry Boston-William Coulbourne--William Bosman-William Stevens-James Jones-John White- John Winder-Edmund Beauchamp. VIII-SOMERSET IN THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTION AND IN THE ROYAL PROVINCE . . . With notes on David Brown, Robert King, Francis Jenckins, George Layfield, William Whittington, William Brereton. Part II APPENDIXES I-Governor Calvert's Commission for Settlement of the Eastern Shore Below Choptank River, November 6, 1661 . . . . II-Randall Revell's Report on Conditions at Manokin-Annemessex, May, 1662 . . . Ill-Colonel Edmund Scarburgh's Report of His Proceedings at Man- kin-Annemessex, October, 1663 IV-Somerset County Officials Before 1700 V-Somerset County Marriages. . VI-First Court House Sites and First Towns in Somerset VII-A Proposed County on the Seaboard Side VIII-Worcester County (1742) and Wicomico County (1867) IX-The King Homes in Somerset County: (1) "Kingsland"; (2) Beverly"; (3) "Kingston Hall". . . . . . . X-Early Settlers (a) First Settlers' (1662-1666) Families: Genealogical Notes (b) Names of Settlers in Somerset County, 1666-1700. (c) Names of Quaker, Church of England and Presbyterian Families. (d) Patentees of Land in the Old Somerset Area, 1662-1666. See Index at http://www.dmkheritage.com/store/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=88