Hi, Becky and all cousins-in-law, I lived in Southern MD for 21 years -- the very foot of MD. It is where I met my Wynne X-husband. Southern MD is bordered on the South by the Potomac R and on the East by the Patuxent, both of which flow into the Chesapeake. The big water is the Chesapeake Bay. It is so huge you cannot see across it at some places. The Patuxent is NOT a large river. Sounds like the ship came into the Chesapeake, stopped along the Patuxent R, probably around Solomons Island, which is a very trendy sailing area (and which is not truly an island). Solomons is right at the mouth of the Patuxent R into the Chesapeake Bay. Then they likely slipped back into the Chesapeake Bay and went on north. They would have passed Annapolis on the left (west) before coming to Rock Hall on the right (east). This area is home to the finest blue crabs and crab cakes and oysters anywhere! Yum! There is a huge Navy base named Patuxent River Naval Air Test Center (called Pax River) where the Navy trains all of its test pilots and many who go on to be astronauts, where your Wynne cousin Chris Shaw, a retired USAF colonel, was a professor and director of the Florida Institute of Technology. We were in St. Mary's County, MD on the west side of the Patuxent R. As an interesting aside, in Maryland, when you ask where someone lives, they always tell you what county they live in. This anomaly I found no where else I ever lived. Every Marylander knows ever county's name and what is there --what it is famous for, its cities, colleges, whether it is a rich or poor county, what the education system is like there, crime level, etc. That Eastern Shore is very quaint. I think it is Kent Island that has made some claim to being where Maryland's first settlers arrived. However, the folks where I lived, went to college, and where my Wynne X-husband was a professor (St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City) would argue strongly that it is there where those early settlers first came. Annapolis is such a lovely town. It is going to be a wonderful place for a reunion. The Eastern Shore amongst other things is where Assateague State Park and the wild ponies are -- not far from Virginia's more famous Chincoteague ponies. Both are on the ocean. At the end of MD (on that Eastern Shore) is a bridge that is about 26 miles long, which connects MD to VA at the Virginia Beach/Norfolk area. Quite a drive! I love keeping up with you all by reading what you are doing! Cousin Mary Alice ----- Original Message ----- From: "incoming.verizon.net" <joebeaches@verizon.net> To: wynne-genealogy-society@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, October 5, 2010 2:34:10 PM Subject: Re: [WGS] Submission and fairy tales-PATUXENT RIVER This river is on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, whereas, the Eastern Shore is where all this activity , i. e. Choptank, Easton, Trappe, Rock Hall are located. How in the world did that get in this discussion? It is south of Choptank River. Apparently the man just did not know the difference between the Patux and the Choptank. We`ll never know. The Choptank flows past Cambridge and terminates not far from Choptank, MD Joe D from MD ----- Original Message ----- From: <ttg-inc@tx.rr.com> To: <wynne-genealogy-society@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [WGS] Submission and fairy tales > Dear Cuz Joe, > Ok.. where is Patuxent River... from the map I find it is across the bay > from where they went up that inlet to Choptank....is All that water the > Patuxent River??? > [Knows nothing about water!!] > Hugs Cuz B > ttg-inc@tx.rr.com > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ttg13/ > "'Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to > dance in the rain " > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <ttg-inc@tx.rr.com> > To: <wynne-genealogy-society@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 1:30 PM > Subject: [WGS] Submission and fairy tales > > >> Note in Colonial and Revolutionary Families of PA by John W. Jordan >> Pg 284 >> .. According to the original terms between the passengers and the master >> of >> the "Submission," they were to have been transported to the "Delaware >> river, or elseware in Pennsylvania, to the best conveniency of >> freighters." >> But through fraud on the master's part, as it is claimed, or perhaps on >> account of a severe storm which they are known to have encountered, they >> sailed up Chesapeake bay, arrived in the Patuxent river, on 8 mo. >> [October] >> 30, 1682, and disembarked at Choptank, Maryland, on 9mo. 2, and James >> Harrison and Phineas Pemberton proceeded thence to Bucks county, >> Pennsylvania, as detailed above, in the account of Phineas Pemberton. >> >> Just had to add a bit more... >> Hugs Cuz B >> ttg-inc@tx.rr.com >> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ttg13/ >> "'Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to >> dance in the rain " >>> >>