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Talbot County is located in the heart of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the
population was 37,782. Its county seat is Easton. The county was named
for Lady Grace Talbot, the wife of Sir Robert Talbot, an Anglo-Irish
statesman, and the sister of Lord Baltimore.
Talbot County
comprises the Easton, MD Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also
included in the Washington, Baltimore, Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA
Combined Statistical Area.
The founding date of Talbot County is
not known. It existed by February 12, 1661, when a writ was issued to
its sheriff. It was initially divided into nine Hundreds and three
parishes: St. Paul's, St. Peter's and St. Michael's.
In 1667,
the first meeting of Commissions was held in the home known as Widow
Winkles on the Skipton Creek near the town of York. The town of York
was vacated once the courthouse was to be built on Armstrongs Old Field
in 1709 near Pitts' Bridge. The new courthouse designated because York
was too far north in the county once Queen Anne's County received their
charter and was lopped off of Talbot County. Pitts' Bridge was just
north of the Quaker Meeting House, but most importantly, it faced the
Indian trail (Washington Street - Easton).
After the American
Revolutionary War in 1786, Act to Assemble in Annapolis appointed John
Needles to survey and "to erect a town in Talbot County to be called
Talbottown" laying out a town around then existing court house with 118
number parcels of land and designated streets, alleys and lanes.
Talbottown was to be known as the county seat of Easton. Another act
was passed in 1789 to build a larger courthouse on the site of the old
one. This court house was completed in 1794 and today parts of it still
stand today inside of the present court house.
Lt. Col. Tench
Tilghman, Gen. George Washington's Aide-De-Camp, was born on Fausley in
Talbot County on December 25, 1744. He died on April 18, 1786, and is
buried in Oxford, Maryland. On the monument at the grave site, an
inscription reads: "Tench Tilghman Lt. Col. in the Continental Army And
Aid de-camp of Washington Who spoke Him thus: He was in Every Action in
which the Main Army was concerned a great part of the Time. He refused
to receive Pay. While living no man could be more Esteemed and since
dead none more Lamented than Col. Tilghman. No one had imbibed
Sentiments of greater Friendship for Him than I had done. He left as
Fair a Reputation as Ever belonged to a Human Character. Died April 18,
1786 Aged 42"
On his actual grave an inscription reads "In
memory of Col. Tench Tilghman who died April 18, 1786 in the 42nd year
of his age. Very much lamented. He took an early and active part in the
great contest that secured the Independence of the United States of
America. He was an Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency General George
Washington Commander in Chief of the American Armies and was Honoured
with his Friendship, Confidence and he was one of those whose merit
were Disinguished and Honourable Reward By the Congress But Still more
to his Praise He was a Good Man".
Founding Father John Dickinson
was born in Trappe. The abolitionist Frederick Douglass was born into
slavery near Tuckahoe Creek.
The first established hospital on
the Eastern Shore was near McDaniel at Dr. Absolom Thompson farm, the
old Mary's Delight Farm.
The county has a number of properties
on the National Register of Historic Places.
I hope you find my efforts helpful in your research of Talbot County roots. I am unable to do additional research on your family as I live in Colorado and do not have direct access to records. I post everything I have for all to use.
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We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."
Saul Harrison
William Parrot
Hope House Talbot County MD
Doncaster Town site
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Coordinator - Available
State Coordinator: Shari Handley
Asst. State Coordinator: Rebecca Maloney
If you have questions or problems with this site, email the County Coordinator. Please to not ask for specfic research on your family. I am unable to do your personal research. I do not live in Maryland and do not have access to additional records.
