Early Settlers of Old Somerset
A Revision and Expansion of Bogerternorton Hundred and Surrounding Areas
of Old Somerset County,Maryland. Volume 1, Inventories, 1665-1700.
Transcribed, compiled and revised by G. Ray Thompson, PhD.
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in this collection, sorted alphabetically by estate owner.
About This Volume
Preface to the Revised Edition
Acknowledgement
Appendix B: Samples of Colonial Clerks' Handwriting
A Note About Spelling and Terminology
About This Volume
The publication of this work has been undertaken for two audiences. First, it is intended for use in introductory classes in United States History
as a springboard to student research. Faculty teaching introductory U.S.
history courses are encouraging students to better understand the historian's
craft and to discover how historians-- from simple building blocks such as these
inventories-- begin to formulate concepts which result in the writing of history.
Through a hands on approach, it is hoped that students might come to have a
greater appreciation for the interpretation of documents and the creation of
historical narratives from such building blocks. This work is intended secondly as a research aid for the many "armchair
historians" in the local, regional, and national communities who have come to
enjoy local and family history.
In addition to the 316 inventories and accounts which I have transcribed and compiled here, there is one
additional inventory of a Somerset County individual who died before 1700 which has not been included. I have
tried, on a number of occasions, to decipher the words on the various microfilms. The inventory listed below
is completely unreadable on the microfilms which I used in the preparation of this work. In going to the Hall
of Records in Annapolis, Md., which holds the original Somerset County documents, I was not allowed to read the
original document; therefore, this document remains untranscribed. As I find additional inventories of this
early period, they will be added to this work as an appendix in order that this part of the economic record of
early Delmarva might be more complete. - G. Ray Thompson, PhD.
NAME OF PROPERTY OWNER DATE Wealth in Sterling
William Heather .......(1693)........................14.15.00
The above list is taken from Edward F. Jones, Jr., Inventories of Old Somerset
County, Maryland, 1666-1720: A Locator Index with User Information, 1996,
published at Salisbury State University Research Center for Delmarva History and
Culture, pp. 1-67.
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