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Misc. Small Books-Pamphlets, Articles Converted into .pdf files and Website files.

History, Stories, Narratives, Newspaper Articles on Additional "Chesapeake Bay Sailing Work Boats," Local Towns, Individuals, etc.

 


 

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[Will be adding more overtime; .pdf and website file links]
(Due to their file size and your computers processing
ability, a few files might take longer. If there is a file you want and are unable to download, feel free to contact us and we will gladly email it to you.)
Asbury Methodist Church, Mt. Vernon
A Tale of Two Bugeyes
Bay Schooners

Blackjack African-American Seamen in the age of sail

Black on the Bay then and now

British Invasion of Maryland
1812-1815

The Chesapeake Campaign
1813–1814


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The Chesapeake Bay Bugeye
The Chesapeake Bay Country
Chesapeake Bay Sailing Craft
Chesapeake Bay Sloops
Chesapeake Bay Steamboats
Collection of Skipjack Photo's and Handwritten Notes
Deal Island Better Days Gone By
Deal Island Historic District
Great Devil's Island, Deil's Island, Deals Island, Deal Island
The Deal Island Story
Documenting what remains of Deal Island's black communities
-Eroding History-
Early Explorations of Documenting the Chesapeake Bay
Eastern Shore Word Book
(a must-read for visitors)
The Eastern Shore of Maryland in Song and Story
The Emergence of Loyalist Privateering During the American Revolution
The Free Negro in Maryland
1634–1860
Harriet Tubman - Life, Liberty and Legacy
Her Majesty Log Canoe
Historic Archives Joshua Thomas
Historic Salisbury, Maryland
History of Dorchester County
(Older Publication/1902)

History of Maryland to its First Settlement in 1634 to 1848

History of Maryland Weather
including the Chesapeake Bay
History of Oriole and its Satellites
It's Oyster Season
John "Jackie" Roberts (Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery)
(Captured by the British when fishing in the Tangier in his Sailing Log Canoe)
Joshua Thomas Chapel
Joshua Thomas "The Parson of the Islands"
The Last Sloop

Loyalist Privateering During the American Revolution
Tories and Picaroons
(Includes Marmaduke Mister, Joseph Wheland, etc. from the Chesapeake as well)

Maryland and Virginia Bounty Lines
(Good-Documents Smith Island and its residents at the time)

Maryland Main and the Eastern Shore

Maryland Historical Society
Nanticoke Indians
Methodist Bicentennial- 1784-1984
Misc. Newspaper Articles, Deal Island, Smith Island,
Joshua Thomas and so on....
More on......"Marmaduke Mister - Stephen Mister" (Supplementary), Joseph Wheland: More Picaroons that Leads up to the
Battle of the Barges (AKA Battle of Kedges Straits)
Nanticoke and Neighboring Tribes
Old Home Prize Essay "Saga of the Bugeye"
Old Home Prize Essay "Forgotten Era"
"Old Offenders:" Loyalists in the Lower Delmarva Peninsula, 1775- 1800
(More Tory Pirate Narrative:>)
Old Photo's (Boats, Folks from the Area)
Newspaper Articles (1800's to Early 1900s), Mostly Deal Island

(Just grabbed them from a file and randomly stuck them into a .pdf file, very eclectic
- If you like local history you will love it! -
The Parson of the Islands
Rev. Joshua Thomas
Old Home Prize Essay "The People of Riverleigh," the Lott, Lott's Wife, etc.
The Old Renshaw House/Mt. Vernon
Remembering the Steamboat "Florence"
Sailing Oystermen of the Chesapeake Bay
Scots on the Chesapeake 1621–1776
Severn Mister House - Deal Island
Shades of Somerset
Smith Island's Camp Meeting- A View of the Past
Celebrating 100 years of Camp Meetings from 1887-1987
Smith Island
Maryland's Right Tight Isle
Somerset (County) "350" Where History Lives
1666 - 2016

Story of Hoopers Island Lighthouse

Tales of Piracy on the Chesapeake Bay
Tory Activity on the Chesapeake Bay
(large file)
Travail of a Tory Parson: Reverend Phillip Hughes
and Maryland Colonial Politics
Vanishing Island
A True Story of Hollands Island
Watercraft Collection
Wooden Ship Building Maryland
Prior to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Wicomico County created out of parts of Somerset-Worcester Counties - 1867

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