Home NEIGHBORING COUNTIES: Wicomico County, Maryland MDGenWeb Worcester County, Maryland MDGenWeb Dorchester County, Maryland MDGenWeb Sussex County, Delaware DEGenWeb Accomack County, Virginia VAGenWeb OUTSIDE LINKS: MD Historical Trust MEDUSA Map Somerset Tract Patent Index, 1665-1979 African-American Genealogy in MD Black Heritage of the Lower Eastern Shore African-American History in DE and MD's Eastern Shore Delmarva African-American History MAYIS: MSA Indigenous Records Guide Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland American Origins - Delmarva Digital Archive Somerset Digital Newspaper Project Archives of Maryland Online Cindy's Genealogy Coalition to Protect MD Burial Sites Crisfield Picture Gallery Family History Library Holdings for Somerset Free African-American Taxables in Somerset 1904 Gazetteer of Maryland GHOTES Golden Lyon Genealogy (archived) Shari Handley's Eastern Shore Genealogy Invisible Indians of Delmarva Lower Delmarva Genealogical Society Beach to Bay Heritage Area Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Methodist Church Records Nabb Research Center for DelMarVa History and Culture Ocean City Lifesaving Museum City of Crisfield History Town of Princess Anne History How to Read Old Handwriting Political Graveyard - Somerset Co. Somerset County Travel Information FAMILY SITES: Carey Family Website (ARCHIVED) Early Chesapeake Families DNA Project Cullen Family Tree 2015 (ARCHIVED) Dave Fletcher's Site Grandfather's Clock (ARCHIVED) Hearne History Home Hignutt and Messick Family Tree Hitch Genealogy Dave Insley's Genealogy, Masonic, and Cemeteries Info McKnight/McKnitt Family of Manokin Hundred Outten Genealogy Some of the Descendants of Thomas Pollitt The Pusey Family Robert Simms' Genealogy (ARCHIVED) Ulster Scots on the Eastern Shore of MD, DE, VA Links to web sites that are not part of the USGenWeb Project are provided for your convenience and do not imply any endorsement of the web sites or their contents by The USGenWeb Project, MDGenWeb, or the Somerset MDGenWeb Project. |
Old Somerset, whose county seat is at Princess Anne, once encompassed a much larger area than the current boundaries. It included the territory shown at right, the areas which now are the counties of Somerset (bordered in red), Worcester and Wicomico in Maryland, and part of Sussex in Delaware. Other close neighbors are Dorchester County, Maryland to the northwest and Accomack County, Virginia to the south. Many early Somerset settlers came up from Accomack. Cecil, Lord Baltimore, Lord Proprietary of the Province of Maryland proclaimed in 1666 that Somerset County would be "bounded south with a line from Watkin's Point (being the north point of tht bay into wch the River Wighco formly called Wighcocomoco afterwards Pocomoke and Wighcocomoco againe, doth fall exclusively) to the Ocean on the east; Nanticoke River on the North & the Sound of Chesipeake Bay on the West." Somerset County was named for Lady Mary Somerset, sister of Cecilius Calvert's wife, Lady Anne Arundell. We have the 1877 Lake Griffing & Stevenson Atlas maps for Somerset online at the 1877 Atlas page. Enjoy! We also have Stepney Parish Records images for 1703-1890 at the Stepney Parish page. Check out this neat rectified maps from the 1877 Atlas, overlaid on a modern map with a slider to toggle between them. Very handy! Introducing ... The LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS Forum! The LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS Forum is the descendant of the late, great LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-L RootsWeb Mailing List. I was the Listmaster for its entire existance, and it was my distinct pleasure to oversee this large gathering of Delmarva researchers who shared information, chatted, became friends, and helped each other out for many, many years before the mailing lists were discontinued. Can we catch that lightening in a bottle again? Well, let's see. Click on the logo below to visit the forum. Be sure to register and post your own query, or list your surnames, or just say hello!
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