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Vol. 20 • December 2013 For the Members of the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Dorchester County EDWARD H. NABB RESEARCH CENTER In a Word FOR DELMARVA HISTORY & CULTURE Submissions 1101 Camden Ave. By Dr. G. Ray Thompson Salisbury, Maryland 21801 The Nabb Research Center is always phone: 410-543-6312 ur holiday issue of Shoreline is interested in articles on the history, fax: 410-677-5067 dedicated to Dorchester County culture or heritage of the Delmarva e-mail: [email protected] Othemes. We have “mined” our archival region. If you or anyone you know is http://nabbhistory.salisbury.edu resources to make this Shoreline a special edition interested in writing for Shoreline, please for each of you to enjoy as you are slowing The Nabb Board send material, proposals, suggestions or Michael Hitch, Chair down from the holiday hustle-and-bustle. Salisbury, MD Articles, crafted by students, professional comments to the attention of the Constance Strott, Vice-Chair historians and residents of Dorchester County “Newsletter Editor” as follows: Salisbury, MD have something for everyone, from stories of Lenore Huffer, Secretary Nabb Research Center Berlin, MD folklore and folkways emerging from the Salisbury University Mindie Burgoyne marshes of Dorchester County, to historic Marion Station, MD architecture, social and family history, vintage 1101 Camden Ave. Aleta Davis Salisbury, MD 21801-6860 Salisbury, MD geographic and ethnographic accounts, and Charles Emery Civil War accounts. Or by e-mail to [email protected]. North East, MD You have by this time noticed that we have Charles Fithian Please include the words “Newsletter Dover, DE sent out an annual appeal—our first—to Editor” in the subject line. Margaret Genvert provide support for enhancements to our Salisbury, MD programming, events, and archival needs. In Randolph George Marion, MD the coming months you will also be hearing Hours & Closings Laura Kerbin about the new academic commons which is Onancock, VA soon to become a reality. Dean Hardy meets READING ROOM HOURS: Karen Lischick Salisbury, MD frequently with architects to finalize plans that Monday: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Creston Long will make the “plan” turn into a reality. She Tuesday-Friday: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Salisbury University has also been able to obtain the hoped-for Katie Matthews Berlin, MD outreach and education coordinator postion for GALLERY HOURS: Russell McCabe which we will soon begin advertising. This Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 1-4 p.m. Milton, DE position will allow us to enhance our academic Gary Outten or by appointment (please call 410-543-6312). Pocomoke City, MD mission and tie us more closely to the Dan Parsons Laurel, DE community and region. CLOSINGS: Sandra Quillin For those of you who haven’t had a chance The Nabb Research Center will be closed Bishopville, MD to see the exhibit “Native Americans on the December 23 – January 1 & January 20 Elizabeth Ragan Salisbury, MD Eastern Shore at First Contact: 1600-1700” Diane Savage please avail yourself of that treat. Also, by the Berlin, MD beginning of the spring semester, you will see a Rebecca Sheppard Wilmington, DE new exhibit “Delmarvans go to War: The Civil Dorie Skinkus War”, an exciting exhibit which we have been Selbyville, DE working on since last summer. We hope you Kathryn Washburn Westover, MD will enjoy it! The spring also brings our next William Wilson fundraiser---at historic Lewes in Sussex County, Salisbury, MD DE – a location sure to be a favorite with Student Member Julie Messick, Graduate everyone! Members Emeritus Those of us at the Nabb Center wish all of E. Niel Carey Ellicott City, MD you the happiest of holidays and a wonderful Thomas Fooks V New Year. Wilmington, DE George W. Gering Jr. Salisbury, MD Bert Thornton Frederick, MD Gordon Wood Oceanview, DE Dr. G. Ray Thompson, Director Dr. G. Ray Thompson 2 Ed w ard H. Nabb Research Center for D elmarv a History and Culture Contents… 4 . .A Peek into the Past 7 . .Cambridge, 1845 8 . .Lydia’s Story (1804): A Dorchester House Servant Sold to the Negro Buyers and Transported to South Carolina 10 . .Dorchester County: An 1807 Geographical Description 8 Lydia’s Story (1804) 11 . .Bob Random on the Eastern Shore: Vienna, 1845 12 . .Civil Disobedience During the Civil War: Running the Chesapeake Blockade 15 . .Hanging and Fishing Gill Nets on the Nanticoke River 16 . .Skipjack: For Dorchester County It Was More than a Boat 17 . .The Wild Man of Crocheron: Non-urban Legends and Dorchester County History 21 . .Dorchester in the Civil War: 12 “I never thought I should be draftid” Civil Disobedience During the Civil War 22 . .Domestic Discord: The Civil War in Maryland 23 . .When Johnny Reb Came Marching Home: A Dorchester Soldier in the Civil War 27 . .W.A. Gibbs and Son and the “Two-Trigger” Trap 31 . .Donors and Members Volume 20 • December 2013 Director and Founder, Dr. G. Ray Thompson. Research Assistant, T. Aaron Horner. 27 Administrative Assistant, Donna T. Messick. Receptionists, Pilar Burton and Leigh Anne Roye. W.A. Gibbs and Son and the “Two-Trigger” Trap Access Archivist, Leslie Van Veen. Graduate Assistants, Amanda Tuttle & Regina Miller. This issue and back issues of Shoreline may be purchased for $15 each. Please contact us at 410-543-6312 or by e-mail at [email protected] for details. ©2013 Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Any views or opinions expressed in this newsletter are solely those of the individual authors and do not represent those of the Nabb Center or Salisbury University. Shoreline is published by the Nabb Research Center, 1101 Camden Ave., Salisbury University, MD, 21801. Printed in the USA by the Publications Office, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD. About the Front Cover: “Outline Plan of Dorchester Co. Maryland”: The 1877 Atlases and Other Early Maps of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. at Salisbury University 3 uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu A Peek into the Past By Melanie Ayres Merryweather o get a actually be under the lesson in foundation of the present TDorchester church. There are also several County’s rich persons who rest in unmarked history, one only has graves, and they are to take a peek at the undoubtedly among those in worn monuments the oldest graves that hidden behind the probably were not marked brick wall, in the with tablets or monuments shadow of Christ of stone. Episcopal Church of The following relates Cambridge, located some information about some in the Great of those who are buried here Choptank Parish. and what is found on some of The past first sneaks their gravestones. up on you when you Robert Goldsborough look at the (1733-1788) was educated in Portrait of Henry Lloyd by F.W. Wright. cornerstone of the England. His ability made Maryland State Archives. large granite church him a member of numerous that has stood as a provincial conventions during the turbulent period preceding the proud sentinel at the Revolutionary War. He was a delegate to the Continental corner of Church Congress that drafted the Declaration of Independence, a and High streets framer of Maryland’s first Constitution in 1776, and a Delegate since 1883. Christ to the Dorchester County Constitutional Ratification Convention Christ Episcopal Church photo credit: Church was in 1788. His grave and that of his wife Sarah Yerbury of Library of Congress. originally a frame England are two of those that are probably under the present building erected in church. 1693, just one year after Dorchester County had been Resting among their ancestors and descendants, this historic subdivided into two parishes – the Great Choptank Parish and resting place is the burial site for four Maryland governors: Dorchester Parish. That first church eventually fell into total Charles Goldsborough, Henry Lloyd, Phillips Lee Goldsborough disrepair, and in 1794 a new brick building was erected. The and Emerson C. Harrington. There is a monument here second church stood for about 90 years, until it was destroyed by commemorating a fifth governor, John Henry, who was a fire on Thanksgiving Day in 1882. The present structure, with its member of this parish and whose grave at his home Weston on Gothic architecture, was built in 1883 during the tenure of the the Nanticoke River was washed away by erosion. Rev. Theodore Barber, one of the outstanding men to serve the Governor Charles Goldsborough (1765-1834) was born at Great Choptank Parish. Hunting Creek and educated at the College of Pennsylvania, The churchyard has been a burial ground since the latter now the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the half of the 17th century. A few of those buried here might Maryland Senate, a member of the House of Delegates, a U. S. Representative and finally the governor of Maryland in 1819. He was the son of Charles and Anna Maria Tilghman Goldsborough. Governor Goldsborough first married Elizabeth Goldsborough, daughter of Judge Robert Goldsborough of Ashby in Talbot County, and second married Sarah Yerbury Goldsborough, daughter of Charles Goldsborough of Horns Point in Dorchester County. Governor Henry Lloyd (1852-1920) was a member of the Maryland State Senate from 1882-1884, governor of Maryland from 1885-1888 and a Circuit Court judge from 1892-1908. He was the son of Daniel and Catherine Henry Lloyd. Governor Lloyd’s paternal grandfather was governor Edward Lloyd and his maternal great-grandfather was governor John Henry. Governor Henry Lloyd’s inscription reads: “The strife is o’er, the battle done. The victory of life is won.