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From: Philip Turner <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Bye to Sho
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:42:18 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <p05111a0cbb6862bf8195@[63.175.73.62]>


I think that the soil may have been worn out from 200
years of tobacco farming. I remember reading
somewhere that the yield per acre declined abruptly
toward the end of the 18th Century.

Phil Turner

--- craig o'donnell <> wrote:
> >The 1850 York County census shows nearly 100 people
> from the Eastern
> >Shore. I am wandering why so many people left the
> Eastern Shore for
> >the west side of the bay?
>
> No economy, and not so much lanmd so the excess
> population had to go SOMEWHERE.
> --
> Craig O'Donnell
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>
> <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fassitt/>;
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> Sailing Canoes, Polytarp Sails,
> Bamboo, Chinese Junks,
> American Proas, the Bolger Boat
> Honor Roll,
> Plywood Boats, Bamboo Rafts, &c.
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