1916 - KENT County Maryland MD - History Genealogy Ancestry Family

Description: This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Kent County and its people. This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1916. History of Kent County, Maryland 1630 - 1916 By Frederick G. Adtaken 1916 259 pages on 1 CD An essential resource for Genealogists Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect. This book on CD is SEARCHABLE * CONTENTS 1. Events leading up to the founding of Kent County. 2. The Isle of Kent 3. The County of Kent 4. Tench Tilghman's ride through Kent 5. The battle of Caulk's Field 6. Burning of Georgetown and story of Kitty Knight 7. Freedom of religious thought and worship—Ancient Shrewsbury 8. Old St. Paul's Church, built in 1713 9. Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church — Where the name originated 10. The Friends' Meeting House 11. Methodist records—Catholic Church—First Sunday School—Colored Churches 12. Schools, public and private—Founding of Washington College 13. Records of first sailing vessel and early steamboating on Chester—The first railroad 14. Financial institutions and their official boards 15. First military organization—Musical organizations 16. Kent in the War of 1812-14 17. Four United States Senators from Kent—Other notable men 18. Old records showing transfers of land in old Kent. 19. Some weather records of other days 20. Women vote in Still Pond, first place in State 21. Some records on the farm 22. Old-time Christmas in Kent 23. Chestertown—The County Town—Its early history 24. "The White House" Farm, on a part of which Chestertown stands 25. Throwing tea overboard in the Chestertown harbor —Plays—Racing events—Novel ordinances 26. The noted Chester Bridge—Lovers and fishermen—Some noted events 27. Notable houses in Chestertown — Newspapers — First hotels 28. Rock Hall—Its early history—Great oyster centre 29. A noted resort—Tolchester Beach—Founded 1877 30. Fish Hall, Betterton's first house—A lonely place 31. Shell banks made by Indians—Happy council places 32. "Monomac"—An Indian tale 33. Some recollections—Old residenters—Kent's silver mine—Vote on local option—A great prize fight—Negro superstition—Crow Hill 34. The old Court House

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