Travel by Ancestry -- to a 1740s "dwelling house at Wickacomoco" in Somerset County, Maryland5/7/2017
Thomas Holbrook, the original owner of "Harrington," who stirred up Somerset County, Maryland courts in 1728 by turning the road leading to it without permission, turned Travel by Ancestry toward the history of Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore in the 1740s -- about a decade prior to the arrival of Acadians in the area in 1755.
"Harrington," named for the original 200-acre land grant, is described in Somerset County Judicial Records as a "dwelling house at Wickacomoco...for the ease & coveninency of the Inhabitants, Travelers & Strangers." A recent photo of the meticulously restored and beautifully landscaped farmhouse in Mount Vernon, Maryland reveals nothing about its former role as Thomas Holbrook's "House of Entertainment." "Inhabitants, Travelers & Strangers" may have visited Harrington when it served as a way station between Snow Hill and Vienna in the 1740s; in May of 2017 this Traveler by Ancestry, whose family is rooted in Somerset County's earliest history, arrived there as a friend, the descendant of Acadian exiles in Maryland, and an Eastern Shoreman's daughter. Reference: Maryland Historical Trust: http://mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.aspx?NRID=329 Comments are closed.
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