To John Polk, Judy, awilgus and any other interested listers: Yesterday I checked every Hopkins listing in the entire set of PILI (Passenger & Immigration List Index. 37 volumes from the beginning in 1981 thru 2009; some years had 2 supplements issued instead of just one). Altho, going in, I thought it would be a cinch because I had a unique given name (Archibald) I din't find a single Archibald in PILI, period. Lot's of Maryland immigrants (as we know the listings frequnetly repeat because of the sources used) but Delaware was mentioned infrequently if at all. I'm sure :-) that I now have your sympathy. Then I switched to Ancestry and found 600 Archibald Hopkins listings of various kinds (again, they repeat *frequently* as you know). But here's the reason for this e-mail. 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. Since land was free on demand, we can assume that most, if not all, the immigrants to Maryland for the first 50 years are listed". El Posto Scripto: Dind't find Archibald in Skordas either ! Joe Lake

Joe - Keep in mind that Skordas only covers the period 1634-1681 when the headright system was in effect, which doesn't overlap your period of interest very much. After 1681, this genealogical bonanza was discontinued so we have to search for our quarries in other sources, primarily the land and court records, which yield much more random results. No guarantees that any specific individual ever ended up in court or acquired land, and if so it could be many years after his/her arrival. For those who may not be aware - "New Early Settlers of Maryland" is available on-line at the MSA website with a search engine. Just go to http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/speccol/sc4300/sc4341/html/search.html This is much more complete than Gust Skordas's original version since it includes all of the additions and corrections made by the late Dr. Carson Gibb who worked on it for many years at MSA. I just checked it for Archibald Hopkins and unfortunately nothing came up. Lots of other Hopkinses. No guaranteed answers in this business. With respect to court records, Somerset's early Judicials, through 1696, are available at the MSA website with a search engine so they are easy to check. Go to http://aomol.net/html/countycourts.html The 1696-1698 volume is also on line but only in the form of scanned images - so search engine doesn't work. The Judicials for 1707-1717 have been transcribed by Frank Walczyk in five published volumes. If you can find these you just need to check the indexes for your Archibald. I know they are available at MSA, but don't know about Nabb Center. For Sussex County, i.e. the part that always belonged to Pennsylvania, the early court records were transcribed by Craig Horle in "Records of the Courts of Sussex County, Delaware, 1677-1710" (2 Volumes). This is available at Delaware Archives, Pennsylvania Historical Society and Library of Congress. Not sure where else. With respect to the Somerset land records, I will defer to our LDR guru John Lyon who will be able to tell you if Archibald Hopkins pops up in his database. Perhaps he already weighed in on this and I didn't make note of it at the time since Hopkins is not one of my lines of interest. Good luck - JP ----- Original Message ----- From: <joslake@sbcglobal.net> To: <lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:48 PM Subject: [LDR] For the period 1675-1725 - Immigration to Sussex Co North ofthe Indian River and the Nanticoke (roughly) > To John Polk, Judy, awilgus and any other interested listers: > > Yesterday I checked every Hopkins listing in the entire set of PILI > (Passenger & > Immigration List Index. 37 volumes from the beginning in 1981 thru 2009; > some years > had 2 supplements issued instead of just one). > > Altho, going in, I thought it would be a cinch because I had a unique > given name > (Archibald) I din't find a single Archibald in PILI, period. Lot's of > Maryland > immigrants (as we know the listings frequnetly repeat because of the > sources used) > but Delaware was mentioned infrequently if at all. > > I'm sure :-) that I now have your sympathy. > > Then I switched to Ancestry and found 600 Archibald Hopkins listings of > various kinds > (again, they repeat *frequently* as you know). > > But here's the reason for this e-mail. 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. Since land was free on demand, we can assume > that most, if > not all, the immigrants to Maryland for the first 50 years are listed". > > El Posto Scripto: Dind't find Archibald in Skordas either ! > > Joe Lake > > > *************************************** > 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