A "pied cow" is Shepard's Pie. I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. Actually, I'm told by my wife, the English major, that "pied" means splotchy, so it referred to the color or appearance of the cow. Jim Moore On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:33 PM, mike hilton <jmh963@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Barbara, > > My notes say Ape's Hole contained 250 Acres, on the South Side of the > Annemesix River and on the North Side of Pocomoke Bay, originally patented > by John White and assigned to Edward Furlong. July 7, 1679. > > I agree that the name Ape's Hole is unusual and sounds like a nice place to > visit. I hope in the next couple of years to visit Delmarva in person with > my wife and have the time to actually sit down and look and the original > records rather than online images or abstracts. > > Take care, > Mike Hilton> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:02:57 +0000> From: > Emphatha2@comcast.net> To: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: > [LDR] Wedgemussel Ridge? Apes Hole> > > > 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(R)…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 > > ***************************************> 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(R):…more than just e-mail. > > http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_explore_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 >

Jim Moore wrote: > A "pied cow" is Shepard's Pie. I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. > Actually, I'm told by my wife, the English major, that "pied" means > splotchy, so it referred to the color or appearance of the cow. Recall the Pied Piper of Hamelin (who wore motley). -- T.M. Sommers -- tmsommers2@gmail.com -- ab2sb