Historians - please help. I found this 1783 Tax Assessment on the Maryland Archives. It lists three District Hundreds - UPPER Choptank District, RIVER District and LOWER Choptank District. I found my ancestor, Henry Stubbs (great X 4 grandfather) in LOWER CHOPTANKk HUNDRED, along with Collisons, Framptons and Wheelers who married into my families. My questions: (1) WHERE is the LOWER Choptank District IN RELATION TO TOWNS TODAY? I would call "UPPER river" as meaning closer to the river SOURCE; "LOWER River" would be near the OUTLET. That would mean to me: UPPER would be Greensboro, Goldsboro, Henderson area. RIVER hundred would be Denton area: LOWER would be Federalsburg and Preston area. But I have other reasons to suspect that my above named ancestors were in the Greensboro area. Please help me with the geography. (2) WHO were listed - land owners only, (some are stated as "tenants") ? (3) The Maryland Archives site calls it the "ASSESSMENT OF 1783". Ancestry.com refers to it as "FIDELITY OATH". So my questions: Who ordered this "event"? the Colony/State of Maryland? Was it a means of taxing Marylanders of the colony/state of Maryland? Was it a means of asking residents to "pledge fidelity" to the new "state"? In 1783 the Revolutionary War with England had been negotiated. (Declaration of Independence was in 1776. I think the Revolutionary War lasted for six years - 1776 to 1782. - Historians, correct me if I am wrong.) (4) Did other states have a comparable "Assessment", which would be a Pre-1790 Census. As I research my families, I realize how little HISTORY I learned. So now I am filling in the gaps. Genevieve Bundy