An edition of Delmarva legends & lore
(2010)
Delmarva legends & lore
by David Healey
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Table of Contents
pt. 1. Colonial Delmarva
Augustine Herman : explorer and mapmaker
Chestertown Tea Party
How Whorekill and Murderkill got their names
Lost houses of Delmarva
William Claiborne : Chesapeake Bay's first pirate
Baltimore versus Charlestown
The original Sotweed factor
Bloody Delmarva : English, Swedes, Dutch, and Native Americans in conflict
Debtors' prisons
pt. 2. War of 1812
The town that fooled the British
Sir Peter Parker's fateful Letter
Kitty Knight
The battle fought after war's end
pt. 3. Divided Delmarva : the Civil War era
Thomas McCreary : notorious slave catcher and kidnapper
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Clara Gunby Huffington : spy for the Confederacy
Lincoln's "My dear lady"
Caveman of the Civil War
pt. 4. Disasters, shipwrecks, and mayhem
The great gale of 1878 and the sinking of the Express
The rise and fall of the peach barons
Delaware's Coin Beach
Cannibals on Assateague
Lightning causes airline crash
pt. 5. Monsters and myths
Chessie
Oyster wars
James Michener's Chesapeake and the house full of canned fruit
The horses that Swam Ashore
pt. 6. Ghosts, murders, and mysteries
Haunted historical society
The mysterious Cosden murders
Andrew Jackson's duelist meets his match
Searching for Blackbeard's treasure
The drowned town.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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