Listers~ There is also a great booklet showing the early immigrants of Maryland called "The Ark & The Dove". It shows many names of some of our ancestors. A friend of mine came across this info while going through a library in Georgia several years ago. She copied all of it for me and it was most interesting. I think you can down load it on the internet. Worth checking out. Regards, Michelle ----- Original Message ----- From: <johnlyon0@cs.com> To: <lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:36 AM Subject: Re: [LDR] For the period 1675-1725 - Immigration to Sussex Co North ofthe Indian River and the Nanticoke (roughly) > > > > > John Polk writes: > > > Keep in mind that Skordas only covers the period 1634-1681 when the > eadright system was in effect, which doesn't overlap your period of > nterest very much. <snip> > > oe Lake writes: I also pulled down a copy of Gust Skordas' "Early > Settlers of Maryland". In the front intro, he states: "this is > an accurate alphabetical index list of ALL the names of those > who came & demanded land under the conditions of plantation. > > > > > > __________________________ > > Well, I’d simply encourage you to read the introductory material to Carson > Gibb’s "new and improved" Early Settlers, to get in the right frame of > mind. Skordas’ bold claim of accuracy and completeness was a good bit > impetuous. > > I can add that Carson’s good work remains less complete than we’d hope, > and that Carson would be the first to agree, were he still with us. For > several years, as he was plowing through the Patents and Warrants to > upgrade Skordas, I was simultaneously unraveling the warrant claims made > for Somerset patents and (often) trying to connect them with the rights > expressed in the headrights. Carson and I often padded across the MSA > Search Room to seek one another out on interpretations of script and > correlations that might provide evidence supporting improvements to our > respective lists. This was often helpful, but the lesson we both came away > with was that we were looking through glass darkly. As his Early Settler > introduction makes clear, the headright system cam > e to an end, partly because the Lord Baltimore found the documentation of > his clerks incomplete and disorganized. > > Much remains missing (or undiscovered). I find hundreds of people claimed > on Somerset headright grants who are not in Carson’s lists, and (I think, > but this requires analysis that I have no time for) a vast number of > headrights awarded that were never used, or ended up used in counties > other than Somerset (which one would have "expected" to have been used in > Somerset by virtue of the holders of the rights). > > Most of my own ancestors who entered before 1681 are among the missing, > never appearing on either headright lists or warrant claims applied to > patents in Somerset. Their earliest rights to surveys were acquired by > purchase from others, though they themselves would have, by their own > economic and social status, have been normally expected to have paid for > their own passage. I have long since abandoned trying to imagine why, just > admitting that the surviving documentation from 350 years ago is > imperfect. Some answers may have been on moldy loose sheets that turned > long ago into papier mache in a forgotten corner of the Land Office. > > > I find no Archibald Hopkins among applied headrights for any Somerset > survey. > > > The glass is half full. But imagining that Skordas found "everyone", or > that everyone can be found, is unrealistic. Time to diminish your > expectations, being grateful for what still miraculously exists. > > > John > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > _______ > Email message sent from CompuServe - visit us today at http://www.cs.com > *************************************** > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.234 / Virus Database: 270.10.22/1946 - Release Date: 02/11/09 11:13:00

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