I found in researching Leonard Jones, that a person named Edward Furlong, who in Somerset County, Md had donated a '"pied cow" to his wife Joan Jones, later patented a tract called Ape's Hole. I doubt there were any Apes in the Lower Delmarva but Ape's Hole is an interesting name for a tract of land. Mike Hilton Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:41:14 -0500> From: Johnlyon0@cs.com> To: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [LDR] Wedgemussel Ridge?> > "Dave & Jane Kearney" <kearneyd@erols.com> wrote:> > >But do we have any Lower Shore tracts named Shortnose Sturgeon, Dwarf Wedgemussel, or Burying Beetle? :-)> > __________> > Well, none that I know of. However, I did google "bog turtle" from your endangered list and found the Wikipedia article asserting that they're 100 ft long [sic] (but only weigh 700 lbs [sic]), the females a little smaller. That's a lot of turtle soup; I can understand why they might have been hunted to near-extinction. > > There's a single Turtle Creek -- in western Sussex (NW Fork); this must be where the remaining giant reptiles haunt the forest, terrifying the natives. Given their Wikipedia-stated size and weight, I assume their shells harbor vast hydrogen sacs, allowing them to float above the bogs, inhaling mosquitos by the millions.> > Other than turtles, the patent names refer to many mosquitos, some foxes, the occasional squirrel, a couple of rattlesnakes, one wildcat and a butterfly. A few [Somebody's] Fishing Holes show up, but no sturgeons. Whales are missing altogether. > > Domesticated creatures, though, are a constant thread: cows (and calves), horses, pigs and hogs, sheep (and ewes) appear in endless patent names.> > > John> ***************************************> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING?> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ:> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009

Mike, what was the date on patenting Apes Hole? Truthfully,as a child, I loved going there because of the sense of peacefulness, wondered once in a while why it was named that...then lately, I've really been curious. My Dad used to shuck oysters there and told many tales (some of his folk stories are in the Library of Congress as well as retold in Folk Lore Books) about Apes Hole .  But even he never knew why it was named that.  One McCready/Nelson researcher said that all of "Crisfield" was known originally as Apes Hole which I had never heard before. I don't know if this name is still being used to designate a "stretch" of an area close to Apes Hole, but there is still a " Jonestown ". I always wondered about that.  Perhaps it was from this same Jones family? Close to Jonestown area was " Freedom town " and that name's origin, I assumed, was because many slaves got their "freedom" from slave owners in the area. And I can't resist asking you what is a "pied cow"? Thanks, Barbara ( researching McCready/Nelson/Benson/Huckans --- for starters) ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike hilton" <jmh963@hotmail.com> To: "mike hilton" <lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:36:19 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [LDR] Wedgemussel Ridge? Apes Hole I found in researching Leonard Jones, that a person named Edward Furlong, who in Somerset County, Md had donated a '"pied cow" to his wife Joan Jones, later patented a tract called Ape's Hole.   I doubt there were any Apes in the Lower Delmarva but Ape's Hole is an interesting name for a tract of land.   Mike Hilton            Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:41:14 -0500> From: Johnlyon0@cs.com> To: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [LDR] Wedgemussel Ridge?> > "Dave & Jane Kearney" <kearneyd@erols.com> wrote:> > >But do we have any Lower Shore tracts named Shortnose Sturgeon, Dwarf Wedgemussel, or Burying Beetle? :-)> > __________> > Well, none that I know of. However, I did google "bog turtle" from your endangered list and found the Wikipedia article asserting that they're 100 ft long [sic] (but only weigh 700 lbs [sic]), the females a little smaller. That's a lot of turtle soup; I can understand why they might have been hunted to near-extinction. > > There's a single Turtle Creek -- in western Sussex (NW Fork); this must be where the remaining giant reptiles haunt the forest, terrifying the natives. Given their Wikipedia-stated size and weight, I assume their shells harbor vast hydrogen sacs, allowing them to float above the bogs, inhaling mosquitos by the millions.> > Other than turtles, the patent names refer to many mosquitos, some foxes, the occasional squirrel, a couple of rattlesnakes, one wildcat and a butterfly. A few [Somebody's] Fishing Holes show up, but no sturgeons. Whales are missing altogether. > > Domesticated creatures, though, are a constant thread: cows (and calves), horses, pigs and hogs, sheep (and ewes) appear in endless patent names.> > > John> ***************************************> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING?> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ:> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm> -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009 *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message