You are right, strictly speaking, of course, but locally few make this distinction- in my lifetime both the north-south and east-west lines have been referred to as the Mason-Dixon Line. -----Original Message----- From: lower-delmarva-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:lower-delmarva-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of les riggin Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 7:43 PM To: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LDR] Wives of Peter Waples (1708/9-1785) There is no Mason Dixon line near Selbyville, it is the Transpeninsular Line. The swamp you refer to is The Cypress Swamp not the Great Dismal. > From: lenorah123@comcast.net > To: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:33:56 -0500 > Subject: Re: [LDR] Wives of Peter Waples (1708/9-1785) > > > HI, > I'VE NOTED THAT SOME HAVE MENTIONED A SWAMP TRACT. BURNT SWAMP, THE > NORTHERN END OF THE GREAT DISMAL LIES BETWEEN GUMBORO AND SELBYVILLE > ALMOST TO THE MASON DIXON LINE. IT IS VERY CLOSE TO ST MARTINS, AND WORCESTER CO. > BACK IN THE DAY I BELLIEVE IT WA IN SOMERSET CO. BUT NOW IN DE. > > GOD BLESS, > NORAH > -----Original Message----- > From: marjorie adams > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 10:13 AM > To: Miller's Choice ; lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [LDR] Wives of Peter Waples (1708/9-1785) > > Paul Waples' Piney Point may have been at Indian River, north east of > Dagsboro at the end of Piney Neck Rd. DE Hwy Map, rev 2004 shows > "Assawoman Willife Area Piney Point Tract". I think this neck of land > was/is known as Piney Neck. > > The Peter, Paul and Mary you mention are children of Wiliam Waples, > are they not? According to Runk, William inherited land on both sides > of Indian River. > > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Miller's Choice <milchoice@yahoo.com>wrote: > > > <Peter's brother Paul lived in Baltimore Hundred of Somerset County, > > where he shows on the tax lists until 1739; that last year his next > > neighbor was Paul Thoroughgood. On the 1734 debt book for Somerset > > County, Paul Waples held 500 acres of Piney Point, 50 acres of Swamp > > in Fellowship and 200 acres of Abigail's Chance, all in Baltimore > > Hundred. I'm not familiar with these tracts and I suspect they are > > now in Sussex County, DE.> > > > > > > Becky > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Alan Bell <Alan.Bell@colorado.edu> > > To: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com > > Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:51 PM > > Subject: [LDR] Wives of Peter Waples (1708/9-1785) > > > > Has anyone looked at the putative wives of Peter Waples of Indian > > River, Nancy Thoroughgood and Margaret Rowe? Peter's will of 1785 > > does not mention a wife. Rufus Waples' Genealogy lists an unknown > > first wife; Margaret Rowe as second wife; children William, John, > > Benjamin, Joseph, and Nancy with the first wife; and Margaret, > > Littleton, Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, and Peter with Margaret Rowe. > > (Rufus was the great grandson of Peter.) Nancy Thoroughgood is given > > as the first wife in several genealogies. But I have not turned up > > any documents attesting to either marriage, or any Thoroughgood or > > Rowe documents that might hint at Thoroughgood or Rowe families in > > Sussex around 1700-1750 Nancy or Margaret might have belonged to. > > The birth dates and order of the children (except for Peter, from > > the > > 1850 census) are mostly unattested as well, so the order of the > > marriages seems speculative, as well as which mother the children belonged to. > > > > His daughters married Bartlett, Oliver, Hazzard, Lewis, Hall, and Waples. > > > > Alan Bell, Boulder, Colorado > > *************************************** > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Marjorie > "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work > and to play and to look up at the stars."~ Henry Van Dyke > *************************************** > 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 *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? 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