Based on Letters and Legends of an Eastern Shore Farm 1837-1935 Based on Letters and Legends of an Eastern Shore Farm 1837-1935
BASED ON LETTERS AND LEGENDS OF AN EASTERN SHORE FARM 1837-1935 BASED ON LETTERS AND LEGENDS OF AN EASTERN SHORE FARM 1837-1935 ^Bi/^Jfa/H/y Wood An .• 1-°° i>*1 /> © Copyright 2002 Mary Wood Chestertown, Maryland Dedicated with love to the great grandchildren of Alice Emory Wilmer, with special thanks to one of them, Mary McCoy, who designed this book and to my husband, Howard Wood, for memories and patience. > Penned in an elegant hand, the following was found among the letters: May tlte pleasures of our pleasure loving ancestors be yours, may you inlierit all of tlteir virtues and none of tlteir faults. ' Affectionately yours, Amy E. Blanchard -v..4 *. * EVERSLEY Eversley Farm, Centreville, Maryland April 1935 My name is Alice Emory Wilmer, an eighty-year-old woman sitting at an old table in an old house. The house and the farm on which it stands are part of lands which have belonged to Emorys since the first of our name left England for the New World. Arthur Emory arrived on these shores from Somersetshire, England in 1660 with a wife, Mary, and two children. A land grant from Lord Baltimore, recorded in 1668, awarded him two thousand acres of land across the Chesapeake Bay on Maryland's Eastern Shore between the Chester and Corsica rivers. The portion which fell to me some two hundred years later I named Eversley. It is a farm of 250 acres on White's Cove off the Chester River in Queen Anne's County. At my age you are constantly remembering.
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