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Feel Free to Read, Download
[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.)
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| Asbury Methodist Church, Mt. Vernon |
| A Tale of Two Bugeyes |
| Bay Schooners |
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Blackjack African-American Seamen in the age of sail

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| Black on the Bay then and now |
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British Invasion of Maryland
1812-1815

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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) |
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History of Maryland to its First Settlement in 1634 to 1848

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

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

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Maryland Historical Society
Nanticoke Indians |
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| 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 |
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Story of Hoopers Island Lighthouse

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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 |