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From: "Rachel Sawyer" <>
Subject: [LDR] Somerset/West Connection
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 14:00:09 -0500

Dear Liz:

I certainly am no expert but in my own family there has been a connection between Somerset County and the western shore. One of my ancestors moved back and forth between Calvert County and Somerset County, and this was done by WATER. If you take a look at the map, and see the area of Dames Quarter, Somerset County, and look across the water a short distance you'll see Calvert County (among others).

My ancestors in early and middle 1800's lived in this area of Somerset County and traveled by "schooner" back and forth to Calvert County (where my gg-grandmother was born), and then later in the 1800's moved again by schooner from Somerset County to St. Michaels River (St. Michaels) which is in Talbot County where they stayed after that. So even though by land the distance is great and one wouldn't see how they could have done it, if we remember that a large majority of the men in this time period (on the eastern shore at least) were watermen, and even those that were planters still knew how to use a boat when the need arose. Travel between the Eastern Shore and Baltimore must have also been quite common as evidenced by the number of my ancestors who lived in Talbot County that went to Baltimore to be married.

Just my thoughts.

Rachel.

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