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From: "Dora Smith" <>
Subject: The Wedge
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 07:10:24 PDT


C. Ross:

Hey, thanks for putting links to my page on your New Castle Co page! I
have a fairly new maps file on my site at
http:www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5127/maps.html that has an 1883
property map of London Britain that shows the Wedge, and who lived in it
in 1883. I believe my ancestor William Smith owned several hundred more
acres in Cecil County! By 1883 he was dead and James P and William H Sr
owned his land. By the end of today (whenever Iget upstairs to the
scanner) this map will also have the locations of my London Britain
ancestors and several other London Britain people earlier than the 1883
map mapped onto it.

I think my maps on that page probably aren't copyright; they were
published over a hundred years ago.

I also have some ancestral documents including a couple on Mill Creek
Thompsons who lived in White Clay Creek and are my ancestors at
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5127/documents.html. By the
end of today I should also have early London Britain tax lists and U.S.
census on that page. Hopefully I will also finish transcribing Ezra
Thompson Jr's will. These documents are interesting, they show how
theses people lived, what kinds of productive activities they were
engaged in, and how they structured their finances; it seems that a
typical prosperous London Britain/ White Clay and Mill Creek farm
family's finances rivalled what you used to see on Dallas. Half
interest in a market wagon - which was sold to someone! Half interest
in field after field of growing grain. A whole family financed a son's/
sibling's enterprise, whatever it was, it involved many jugs and some
measures- by taking out formal stocks in it. But in turn, the husband
of a sibling owed him a note! The family actually fully cooperated in
all its financial activities, but look at the formal way they structured
it! Not that the Thompsons were unusual, my Dehaven ancestors carried
out the time-honored custom of setting sons up with farms by holding
bonds on them which they would forgive in their wills!

I kind of think that the maps you put on your page are in such general
circulation noone is likely to be too worried about copyright - but you
never know. I know I've seen that map of the hundreds a number of times
in a number of places. I don't even think that lines with numbers
showing political divisions is copyrightable, though if I got it from
someplace I would credit them.

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