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Subject: [DESUSSEX] Re: DESUSSEX-D Digest V03 #110
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 06:05:46 EDT

This was posted to Lower Delmarva list and thought maybe it
might be of interest to this list:
In a message dated 7/24/03 4:54:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:
I know that some of the residents of Sussex County, DE migrated to Virginia
when the French : See text below:


ST. PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Second & Market Streets (c. 1858)

The third structure on the site, this is one of the oldest churches in
Delaware. The first building was built in 1707 and the next in 1808. The current
structure was consecrated in 1858.

The original oak frame church was able to hold services in 1724. The
cornerstone was laid

by Rt. Reverend Alfred Lee, D.D., the first bishop of Delaware. The steeple
was added in 1870.

A church building was started before Feb. 14, 1707 and the Rev. William Black
appointed

to serve on April 18, 1707. He arrived in Lewes on July 26, 1708. He was a
layman at meetings of the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel but in 1709
he moved to
"Accomake, Va.", now known as Accomac, after Lewes was plundered by French
ships.

original message From Janet Hunter
> One participant said that he believed migration to Accomac (before 1750 or
>
> so) was primarily from the North to the South, down what we call the
> Delmarva
> Peninsula from PA/DE/Baltimore, etc.. I had assumed that most of the
> residents
> as far south as Accomac Co. before 1750 actually landed in the vicinity or
> came across from Virginia. This was my impression though only because of my
> own
> research, certainly not representing a cross-section of the inhabitants of
> Accomac and also only before 1690s by which time mine in Accomac had
> completed
> their flights from the law to Maryland, for their religion or their crimes.
>
> Also, none of my families in Talbot and Queen Anne Counties seem to have
> gone
> south.
>
> So, I would love to hear your comments on geographical origin of immigrants
>

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