elcome to DelmarvaSettlers.org. The Delmarva Peninsula represents a microcosm of the social, economic, religious, and political development on the frontier of colonial North America. Scholarly examinations of seventeenth-century land records, probate inventories, wills, judicial records, and other original documents are bringing to light significant new features of life on Delmarva's Eastern Shore during the germinal period of its settlement.

DelmarvaSettlers.org features transcribed primary documents from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, biographical profiles of the Eastern Shore's earliest settlers, narratives addressing the unique concerns and challenges these early settlers faced, and a selection of research materials and tools revelant to the study of Delmarva's early colonial period.

We have conscientiously let the sources speak for themselves in the development of this project in an attempt to "get back" to the spirit of that initial generation of settlers and settlement.