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From: "Bill & Eleanor" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Kelly, Giles, White- Dames Qtr., Somerset Co., MD
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:41:01 -0400
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Thank you for this information John. Looks like I was on the right track
but had the wrong dam, damn!

Eleanor

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Subject: Re: [LDR] Kelly, Giles, White- Dames Qtr., Somerset Co., MD


> In a message dated 9/5/2004 9:21:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,

> writes:
> > I have been told that the word Dames in Dames Quarter was originally Dam
> > as in beaver dam and was changed to sound better.
>
> This is all very entertaining to watch, but "Dames Quarter" is just a
> late-era prudish cleanup of the original name of the peninsula known from
earliest
> settlement as the Damned Quarter, doubtless a commentary on its happy
mosquito
> population. One sees it spelled in colonial records in other ways: Damm,
Dam,
> etc. No family with any name like this was out there.
>
> Likewise, the adjoining "Deal Island" was originally Devil's Island. I've
> heard from Deal family genealogists who've imagined it must have something
to do
> with them, but it doesn't.
>
> John Lyon
>
>
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