Records

Bible

• BENNETT Family Bible
• SEWARD Family Bible
• SHERMAN Family Bible

Court

• Land Records Abstracts, 1767-1771 Volume 7 103-page pdf, with index
• Land Records Abstracts, 1767-1770 Volume 19 90-page pdf, with index
• Land Records Abstracts, 1772-1773 Volume 22 79-page pdf, with index
• On Monday, March 10, 1919, H. Stockton Startt executed a contract for the sale of his farm of 410 acres, known as the Crawford or Barroll Farm, situate between Fairlee and Melitota. The purchaser named in the sale agreement is Zora H. Brinsfield of Eldorado, Dorchester County, but it is stated that the property will be deeded to three brothers by the name of Truitt. The consideration is given as $28,000 and the purchase includes all the crops and valuable farm stock.
  Source: The Enterprise, Chestertown, MD, March 19, 1919, Front Page
• Will of Robert Reed, Planter of Dorchester County, Maryland, dated Sept. 18, 1727; proved October 2, 1727.
  To Cousin William Reed. To son-in-law Samuel Lawson.
  To three daughters-in-law Anne Tucker, Elizabeth Roe, and Margaret Bracher.
  Witnesses: Redman Fallen, Ann Jones and a Mary Green.
  (Redman Fallen was a well-known Rappahannock character in Virginia.)
  (Rev. John Thomson m. Mary McKean Reed)
  (Md. Cal. of Wills Vol. 6 p. 58) SE4-18; Will - Liber 19, folio 365; Inventory – Liber 13, folio 1; S538-27

Death

• Obituary Index from Legacy and Memory of Jose Rivera Nieves

Marriages

1874 Nov 26 John KEENE & Ellen F. BANKS - $4.00
1874 Nov 26 John RIDEOUT & Emily CORNISH - $4.00
1874 Nov __ Charles F. SMITH & Angeline HUBBARD - $4.00
1874 Dec 2 Alfred L. HENRY & Margaret A. KEENE - $4.00
1874 Dec 2 F. Robinson CREAMER & S. Virginia ANDREWS - $4.00
1874 Dec 3 John BRIGGS & Annie HOLLIS - $4.00
1874 Dec 8 William ___ & Mary A. BESTFIELD - $4.00
1874 Dec 8 Wm D. SHORT & Mary O. LANGFORD - $4.00

1874 Dec 8 Joseph TRAVERS & Alice GAMBY - $4.00
1874 Dec 10 Thomas VICKERS & Sarah KEYS - $4.00
1874 Dec 11 Benjamin F. TRAVERS & Louisa J. ENNALLS - $4.00
1874 Dec 14 Tho. A. WILLIS & Isabeth MARTIN - $4.00
1874 Dec 15 Ellison BOYCE & Celia Ann FOSTER - $4.00
1874 Dec 16 Timothy KEENE & Hannah A. TYLER - $4.00
1874 Dec 16 James MILLS & Mary S. COLLISON - $4.00
1874 Dec 19 Wm. STANDLEY & Emily LAKE - $4.00
1874 Dec 19 Joshua J. REARDS & Elenor A. HEARN - $4.00
1874 Dec 19 James CORNISH & Lucretia LANE - $4.00
1874 Dec 21 James A. MARSHALL & Louisa J. SEWARD - $4.00
1874 Dec 21 Thomas J. CAMPEN & Fannie CEPHUS - $4.00
1874 Dec 22 John W. ARNETT & Anne DEAN - $4.00
1874 Dec 24 Richard CORNISH & Nancy A. JOHNSON - $4.00
1874 Dec 28 Joseph E. EDGAR & Susan F. KERWAN - $4.00
1874 Dec 22 Jefferson JOHNSON & Mary CORNISH - $4.00
1874 Dec 24 Joseph B. ALEXANDER & Leah J. LAKE - $4.00
1874 Dec 29 John HOLLAND & Margaret BURNETT - $4.00
1874 Dec 29 Richard LEWIS & Eliza E. MARINE - $4.00
1874 Dec 30 William CHRISTOPHER & Susan J. MILLS - $4.00
1874 Dec 30 Harry JACKSON & Cristie FLENT - $4.00

Wife Divorces Ex-Congressman

When Mrs. Helen Virginia Andrews obtained a divorce the other evening from William Noble Andrews on grounds of failure to provide, it was the understanding that the evening court session was an accommodation to Andrews' counsel, who had been delayed in federal court at Carson. Today, however, it developed that secrecy was the object, and Andrews did not relish the publicity.

Andrews is a former member of the national house of representatives from the first Maryland district, a former state senator and former Dorchester county prosecutor. Through counsel he appeared in the action of his wife, but made no contest, and the only testimony offered by Mrs. Andrews was that her husband had faile to provide for her for a period of a year or more. Mrs. Andrews was given permission to resume her maiden name, Helen Virginia Philips.

Military

Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Dorchester County

Source: Maryland and Delaware Genealogist, Volume XXIX No. 4, Fall 1988

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