Bob -- Having spent much of the last three days reading Dor Co surveys on plats.net (Man, I've got to get a life!), I know what you mean about needing Visine! I doubt that I will get as far west as Hunting Creek. I'm going to start with the tracts found under Dor Co on plats.net, which I don't think covers Hunting Creek, but I could be wrong. I'm trying to be realistic about the scope of my work. By the way, any thoughts as to the present-day names for CORNELIUS' BRANCH and HARPERS' BRANCH? Both flow out of the west side of the Marshy Hope. I've gone so far as to ask professional title searchers at the Denton courthouse if they knew the names and came up empty. Alas. Thank you for your encouragement. Jim On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Bob Nichol <bnichol@iname.com> wrote: > Jim--What an outstanding idea! > > Along with all the other good advice you get from list readers, I suggest > you get a good magnifier and some Visine! You're going to spend a lot of > time squinting at deeds and topo maps.... > > Seriously, do you mean to cover the Upper Nanticoke/Hunting > Creek/Marshyhope area?? My ancestors were there, but I've only been able > to approximate the locations of their tracts...your final product would > be a great resource. > > Bob Nichol > Researching NICHOL, NICOLL, NICOLLS, NICHOLS in Dorchester/Caroline > Counties. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Moore" > To: "DE Gen list" > Subject: [LDR] Marshyhope Gazetteer > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:47:20 -0400 > > > Folks: After several years of dithering, I'm taking the plunge to buy > deed > mapping software for Greater Bridgeville. (What can I say, this is > what > happens after you meet John Lyon!) > Before I reinvent the wheel, has anyone: > - Already mapped the Upper Nanticoke watershed for "old" Dorchester > Co > tracts? > - Created a creek and branch gazetteer for this area? > > After I've spent a decade or so mapping the Nanticoke forks region to > the > west of the NE fork, I'm going to try to overlay corresponding Sussex > warrants and surveys. That should take care of my 60s and 70s!! > > Any mapping counsel anyone wants to offer is most welcome. > > Jim Moore > Out of his mind in Wilmington > *************************************** > 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 > > -- > Be Yourself @ mail.com! > Choose From 200+ Email Addresses > Get a Free Account at www.mail.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 >

To the list, but espy. to John Lyon: Bottom line, this isn't really a new question at all, but I'll point out a "result" (loosely translated) which calls a premise into question (not for long, I'm sure, when/if John provides a response): The following paragraph is copied verbatim, in total, from the Lewes Historical Society Internet site: Here's the URL: http://www.historiclewes.org/research/papers/capedispute.html "Modern place-names still reflect the conflicting claims made by the Penn and Calvert families. For instance, Baltimore Hundred, along Sussex County's southern boundary with Maryland, is a holdover from a time when the Calvert family exerted greater political control over parts of Sussex County. Many genealogical records, land deeds and other official records from these parts of Sussex County from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are stored in archives in the adjacent Caroline, Dorchester, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worchester Counties of Maryland. Maps of Delmarva from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries show various names for the modern geographic feature known as Cape Henlopen. Names such as Cape James, Cape Cornelius, Cape Hinlopen and Cape Henlopen dot these maps. As stated above, the Cape Henlopen dispute began over confusion of the location of the true Cape Henlopen; it began with a misuderstanding of Swedish grammar." Recently I decided to bite the bullet and search the MD Land Records Net, in the counties above (excepting Wicomico and Worcester, since I'd already looked there). I'm looking only for the surname Hopkins. There were other Hopkins families in those counties and I'm finding their land transactions but those transactions are not with the familiar Sussex County names which I've been learning for the past year. I will go back and inspect individual documents, but I have the feeling I'm "spinning the wheels". I searched from c1662 (approx) in all cases, including parent counties when a county wasn't an "original" county. The premise (as more or less restated in the Lewes Hist. Society paragraph above): Colonial Americans in all states sometimes filed legal documents in the nearest county seat whether or not it was "their" legal county seat. And in MD/DE with the border disputes and attendant confusion that tendency should have been even more prevalent. Before I burn any more rubber, I wonder if it seems strange to anyone else that I haven't yet found a single document (Hopkins only) which seems to have been filed by the Sussex people? I've actually looked in Dorchester (the best prospect, I thought), Caroline (parent Queen Anne) & Talbot (Talbot was also parent to Queen Ann). Thanks, Joe Lake