Skipjack Heritage, Inc. - Somerset County, MD

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Also see our Media: Pictures- Faces where we are starting to add
edited pictures to our Photo Galleries.
{Will try to get better pictures, [picture files are very small at the moment] from the "Museum"
to improve on the accuracy}

Distinguished Citizens from "Somerset County and the Lower Delmarva Area"

Including Deal Island, Wenona, Rock Creek-Chance, Dames Quarter, Oriole, Venton, Mt. Vernon, Princess Anne, Smith Island, Tangier Island, Holland Island, etc.

NAME	LOCATION
Marmaduke Mister Picaroon - Tory Pirate	Smith Island
Joshua Thomas "Parson of the Islands" (Find a grave; goods write-up)	Potato Neck (Fairmont) Tangier Island, Deal Island
John Evans Early Settler (Ancestor of most Islanders)	Smith Island
Captain "Stoney" Whitelock President of Skipjack Heritage, Inc.	Dames Quarter
Captain Levin Anderson Owner of Anderson Hotel, General Store, etc.	Deal Island
Captain Henry Brown, Albert Brown, Ralph Brown Sail Maker	Wenona
Judge "Hot Dog" Lloyd Simpkins MD Secretary of State, etc.	Mt Vernon
Captain "Daddy" Art Daniels Skipjack Captain, Waterman (Painting by Jay Cathell)	Deal Island
Captain Wade Murphy	Tilghman Island
Captain Kermit Travers (Biography)	Cambridge
William Daniel State Legislator	Deal Island
John "Jackie" Roberts	Dames Quarter - Rock Creek

- Genealogy Links -


Nabb Center	Cindy's List for Somerset County, MD	Shari Handley's Site	Somerset County Historical Society	Mike Hitch	Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland	Skipjack Heritage Facebook Page

Thirty-Four Families of Old Somerset Co., Maryland	mdgenweb.org/somerset Lower Delmarva	Deal Island Local History, High School, Veterans Facebook Page	Digital Maryland

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www.FirehouseSolutions.com	Wes Simpkins Skipjack Heritage, Inc. 23529 Deal Island Road, Chance, Maryland 21821	Emergency Dial 911 Non-Emergency: (443) 783-5180 E-mail: info@skipjackheritage.com