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From: "Leo Leonard" <>
Subject: [LDR] Choptank Indian Lands POLK - STANFORD
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:44:21 -0500


DelMarVa Researchers:

Perhaps you could provide me with some insights on how to interpret
the record cited below. It--obviously--concerns a petition to sell a lot
"in Choptank Indian Lands" in Dorchester Co., MD in 1808. Why would such a
petiton involve some sort of adversarial proceeding? It appears that there
are plantiffs--Algernon STANFORD and William McDONALD--and defendants--John
POLK, Sally POLK, and William POLK. Is that correct?

What can we assume--if anything--about possible Native American ancestry of
the parties in this litigation? Who owned the lot in the Choptank Indian
land?

Thanks in advance,
Leo Leonard

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Maryland State Archives

CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
1808/12/18
4825: Algernon Stanford and William McDonald vs.
John Polk, Sally Polk, and William Polk. DO.
Petition to sell lot in Choptank Indian Lands.
Recorded (Chancery Record) 75, p. 232.
Accession No: 17,898-4825-1/3. MSA S512-4988 1/37/1/

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