Old Kent

Kent County Justly Claims The Honor Of Being The Most Ancient Settlement And Of Inheriting The Oldest Organized Government In The State Of Maryland... The Kent Settlement I.E. Kent County Originally Embraced And Included The Whole Of The Eastern Shore And Was Under The Government Of An Officer Styled The 'Commander Of The Isle Of Kent.' The Early Records Of Kent County Maryland Which Contain The Only Memorials Extant Of Many Of The First Settlers Of The Eastern Shore Are Time-Worn Mouldering Falling To Pieces And In A Few Years Will Become Illegible Decay And Be Lost. Upon Their Faded And Perishing Pages Are Chronicled Some Of The Acts And Doings Of Good Men Who Have Gone Before Us-Whose Graves Are Unknown-Whose Tombstones Have Disappeared-And Whose Names Are Forgotten Or Are No Longer Mentioned Among Men. To Preserve This Precious History The Author Has Endeavoured-With The Light Afforded By Ancient Tombstones Wills Parish Registers Of Births Marriages And Deaths And The Assistance Of Friends And Their Family Annals-To Connect Genealogically The First Settlers With Their Children-The Present Generation-And To Weave As It Were A Living Garland Around The Crumbling Monuments Of The Dead. A Wealth Of Names And Dates Pepper The Pages Of This Book. Extracts From Legal Documents And An Index To Full-Names Places And Subjects Index Add To The Value Of This Work.