Jim Moore <moorejl@gmail.com> wrote: >Thanks John.  Amazing what one can learn by asking. And this makes me wonder >what other animals roamed Delmarva early on but have been driven out by >those hungry English settlers. _____________ Bears. About 35 tracts mentioning bears in their names, including bear traps and bear dens, are found, and another 70 which mention places like Bear Swamp, Bear Point, etc. Some of these might have meant "Bare", but many certainly referred to the animals. More recently, oysters, it seems, have been pretty much driven out. John