Again, Historians Help!! One question/answer leads to another. Caroline County was formed from parts of Queen Anne's County and Dorchester County and a small part of Talbot County in 1773-4. QUESTION: Where was the line where Queen Anne's and Dorchester Counties met - in relation to existing towns? Where was the Talbot County area - in relation to existing towns? In other words, if I were searching for someone identified as living in (taxed in) one of the three Districts of Caroline Co., in 1783 - What County would I look in to search back for earlier family members? Again, my interest is in Henry Stubbs, and families Collison's, Frampton's, Eaton's, Waddle, Towers, Wheeler's. Genevieve Bundy

Hi Genevieve, Actually, Caroline County was formed from parts of Queen Anne's and Dorchester Counties, not Talbot. The portion that came from Queen Anne's County was part of Talbot before 1706 when Queen Anne's was enacted. The Choptank River was the border between Dorchester & Talbot, then after 1706 the Choptank River was the division line between Dorchester and Talbot only as far as Tuckahoe Creek, this was the eastern border of Talbot County. Everything between the Tuckahoe and Choptank was in Queen Anne's County until Caroline County was formed. Dorchester was still bordered on the north by the Choptank River. As for the towns; Henderson, Ridgely, Goldsboro, Hillsboro would have been in Queen Anne's County had they existed then. Greensboro was on the line, part in Queen Anne's and part in Dorchester. Whiteleysburg, Hobbs, Burrsville, Concord (was Collins' Crossroads), Williston (was Potter's Landing), Harmony (was Fowling Creek), Bethlehem (was Willis' Crossroads), Preston (was Snow Hill and before that Hunting Creek), Smithville, Federalsburg and Hynson (was The Walnut Trees) would have all been in Dorchester. Also, almost all of Denton would have been in Dorchester. I haven't been able to determine where Henry Stubbs was from, there were Stubbs families in Kent Co., DE but I haven't found any proof yet that they were related to him. The Eaton and Frampton families were both from Talbot Co., MD The Waddell/Waddle family too came from Talbot but had settled in Dorchester (now Caroline) around Fowling and Hog Creeks in the 1730s +/-. The Wheelers were from Dorchester (around Cambridge, I think) and moved to what is now Caroline County in the 1760s or 70s. The Towers family is another that has been hard to trace positively before the Revolution. There is a mention of some of them in Queen Anne's County (probably now Tuckahoe Neck in Caroline County), but no proof to connect those to the latter Towers family. They lived in a broad band between Williston to almost Smithville, and Hobbs to Harmony, in other words they were spread out. Parker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Genevieve" <genev@tisd.net> To: <MDCAROLI-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:06 PM Subject: [MDCAROLI] pre 1773-4 County Boundaries > Again, Historians Help!! One question/answer leads to another. > > Caroline County was formed from parts of Queen Anne's County and > Dorchester County and a small part of Talbot County in 1773-4. > > QUESTION: Where was the line where Queen Anne's and Dorchester Counties > met - in relation to existing towns? > Where was the Talbot County area - in relation to existing towns? > > In other words, if I were searching for someone identified as living in > (taxed in) one of the three Districts of Caroline Co., in 1783 - What > County would I look in to search back for earlier family members? > > Again, my interest is in Henry Stubbs, and families Collison's, > Frampton's, Eaton's, Waddle, Towers, Wheeler's. > > Genevieve Bundy > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Hello Parker, Sorry to send a personal note to this site but will you contact me regarding the Cannon & Griffith lines. I would also like to express my appreciation for your generosity in sharing your research. My e-mail is woolston@dmv.com Thanks, Jean