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From: Carolyn Beachy <>
Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #138
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 17:07:06 -0400
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thanks for backing me up. I had known this and am a land owner and have a graveyard from the 1800 on one of our farms. We do maintain it. There is money
available for the people that can't afford to maintain them.

wrote:

> Subject:
>
> LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 138
>
> Today's Topics:
> #1 RE: [LDR] owner ship of the burial ["Mike Hitch \(Home\)" <mikehitch@m]
> #2 RE: [LDR] owner ship of the burial ["Raymond Montgomery" <]
> #3 [LDR] Re: TRANQUAKING RIVER ["Parker & Trisha Todd" <]
>
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> Subject: RE: [LDR] owner ship of the burial plots!
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:37:48 -0400
> From: "Mike Hitch \(Home\)" <>
> To:
>
> Ray - graveyards are consecrated areas that are protected by law. If you are
> a landowner in MD and have a graveyard on your property, you are not only
> not allowed to clear it but you are also required to maintain it in a
> reasonable manner. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse - the land owner
> must comply. Do landowners have a right to grave-rob? Can they dig up the
> remains of people buried on their land and take possession of any jewelry
> and other artifacts they might find? I hope you can answer this with a,
> "no." Graveyards in our society are sacred places based upon our collective
> religions. I know of not one religion or culture that does not respect
> burial locations unless one is an atheist.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Hitch
> www.mikehitch.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond Montgomery [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:28 PM
> To:
> Subject: [LDR] owner ship of the burial plots!
>
> List et al:
> First off this is way off topic, and
> Second this is not right.
> You are going to call senators and congressmen to try to enforce your will
> on some one whom is using there land for what they own it for.
> Talk about a warped society!
> Who pray tell gives you the right to tell some one else what to do with what
> they own. I/they dont come into your home and tell you what to do with it.
> Dont do it to some one else.
> Get a clue people!
> If she wants to control the property let her buy it. If she cant then let
> her whine and moan with out letting us hear about it.
> Yes this is harsh, but what I am seeing is extremely stupid!
> RAY
>
> >From: Carolyn Beachy <>
> >To:
> >Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #136
> >Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:50:24 -0400
> >
> >your congressmen and senetors of the state that it is happening in is who
> >you see. Call WBOS Salsbury Md. it's the TV station for the area and Del.
> >State news paper
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Subject:
> > >
> > > LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest Volume 02 :
> >Issue 136
> > >
> > > Today's Topics:
> > > #1 [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D D
> >[]
> > > #2 [LDR] Re: Handy Smith ["Nancy E. Gates"
> ><.]
> > > #3 [LDR] Ancestors' Graves Being Logg ["Bill Reder"
> ><>]
> > > #4 RE: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS ["Mike Hitch (Home)"
> ><]
> > > #5 [LDR] RE: Thomas Sewell and Jane B []
> > >
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> > >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #135
> > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 14:38:58 -0400
> > > From:
> > > To:
> > >
> > > HELP! My ancestors graves in Zoar Delaware are being logged around and
> >may
> > > be destroyed!! Salmons?Davidson near route 296. What can i do to stop
> >this?
> > > i know it is illegal but it is happening very quickly! Please advise
> >ASAP
> > > Sheila Withelder 9Blackthorne Lane AstonPA 19014
> > >
> > > ______________________________
> > >
> > >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Subject: [LDR] Re: Handy Smith
> > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:05:43 -0400
> > > From: "Nancy E. Gates" <>
> > > To:
> > >
> > > Still looking for the parents of Handy Smith who married (before 1830)
> >Sarah
> > > Littleton and Handy's sister Dortha Smith who married (1830) to Isaac
> > > Littleton. Isaac and Sarah Littleton were brother and sister also.
> > > Thanks....Nancy
> > > ************************************************
> > > Genealogy Research:
> > > Baker, Barnhouse, Enoch, Higgins,
> > > Jarard/Jarrett, Tennant, Weekley
> > > Gates, Lockhart, Collins, Smith
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 12:01 PM
> > > Subject: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #135
> > >
> > > ______________________________
> > >
> > >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Subject: [LDR] Ancestors' Graves Being Logged Over
> > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 19:11:39 -0500
> > > From: "Bill Reder" <>
> > > To:
> > >
> > > Wow, that's a toughie. I don't think it would hurt if you contacted the
> >Delaware Gen. Society. Some of those guys are pretty well connected and my
> >have enough juice to at least get the stones archived before the Loggers do
> >the dirty deed. The DGS website is: www.delgensoc.org Might cost you the
> >price of a membership, or some private Gen. Research time, but at
> >$15.00/annum for the membership, that's a bargain. Not sure about the
> >price for the Researcher. Best of luck. Cathy Prettyman Reder
> > >
> > > ______________________________
> > >
> > >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Subject: RE: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #135
> > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 21:49:48 -0400
> > > From: "Mike Hitch (Home)" <>
> > > To:
> > >
> > > You might contact the logging company to just let them know you know the
> > > graves are there and hope that they willl take care to work around them.
> > > They are likely to be much more carefull if they know "someone is
> >watching."
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Mike Hitch
> > > http://www.mikehitch.com
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:
> > > [mailto:]
> > > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 2:39 PM
> > > To:
> > > Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #135
> > >
> > > HELP! My ancestors graves in Zoar Delaware are being logged around and
> >may
> > > be destroyed!! Salmons?Davidson near route 296. What can i do to stop
> >this?
> > > i know it is illegal but it is happening very quickly! Please advise
> >ASAP
> > > Sheila Withelder 9Blackthorne Lane AstonPA 19014
> > >
> > > ==== LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS Mailing List ====
> > > The Lower Delmarva Genealogical Society Online:
> > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ldgs/
> > >
> > > ______________________________
> > >
> > >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Subject: [LDR] RE: Thomas Sewell and Jane Boist
> > > Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 00:17:35 EDT
> > > From:
> > > To:
> > >
> > > Years ago my Great Aunt Ouida Milner researched the Rev John Harris line
> >for
> > > a booklet, "Our Harris Family". Rev Harris was the husband of Mary
> >Handy,
> > > daughter of Issac Handy and Anne Dashiell. She referred to a book by
> >Clara
> > > May Denham Haines entitled "Visit our Family Tree".
> > >
> > > Mrs Haines states that Samuel Handy married MARY SEWELL, daughter of the
> >Hon.
> > > Henry Sewell and his wife Jane (Lowe) Sewell. It went on to say that
> >Henry
> > > arrived in America in 1661 and received the grant of "Mataponi" in 1663.
> > The
> > > Handy-Sewell marriage is recorded in the Stepney Parish records in
> >Somerset
> > > County. Perhaps someone with access to those records could find the
> >names of
> > > Mary Sewell's parents.
> > >
> > > Secondly, I have "A Somerset Sampler-Families of Old Somerset County,
> > > Maryland 1700-1776" copyrighted in 1994 by the Lower Demarva
> >Genealogical
> > > Society. On page 173, it states that Jeffrey Long, son of Samuel and
> >Jane
> > > (minshall) Long, b. at
> > > Mormusco and a resident of Annemessex Hd., m. MARY SEWELL, daughter of
> >Thomas
> > > and Jane (Boice/Boist) Sewell, and had issure: a) Samuel b) Jeffrey
> > > c)Sewell d) Jane e) David f) Mary. David and Mary were under age in
> >1731.
> > > (Somerset Co, Deeds, IKL; Tax lists for Somerset Co; wills of David
> >Long, 26
> > > Nov 1716-1718 Mar 1716(7) and Jeoffey Long, 1 July 1731-17 June 1732,
> > > Somerset Co, Wills, EB-9:18-19, 138-39 and Dryden, Somerset Co, Land
> >Records,
> > > p. 220.
> > >
> > > Looks like there could be two Mary Sewells.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Kathy Lynn
> >
> >
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> >http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/
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> Subject: RE: [LDR] owner ship of the burial plots!
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:56:56 -0600
> From: "Raymond Montgomery" <>
> To:
>
> Mike,
> Lets get the facts straight,
> sheila said they where logging off,
> That is a far cry from digging up, ect.
> I suggest that if she is so all concerned, that agian she purchase the
> property.
> I think if you will get more facts here, you will be surprised to what is
> really happening.
> For example, how many acres is being logged, how close to her graves, ect.
> but agian this is way off topic!
> Has she talked to the loggers?
> Perhaps Alt.savethe graves is where this should be.
> RAY
>
> >From: "Mike Hitch \(Home\)" <>
> >To: "Raymond Montgomery" <>,
> ><>
> >Subject: RE: [LDR] owner ship of the burial plots!
> >Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:37:48 -0400
> >
> >Ray - graveyards are consecrated areas that are protected by law. If you
> >are
> >a landowner in MD and have a graveyard on your property, you are not only
> >not allowed to clear it but you are also required to maintain it in a
> >reasonable manner. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse - the land owner
> >must comply. Do landowners have a right to grave-rob? Can they dig up the
> >remains of people buried on their land and take possession of any jewelry
> >and other artifacts they might find? I hope you can answer this with a,
> >"no." Graveyards in our society are sacred places based upon our collective
> >religions. I know of not one religion or culture that does not respect
> >burial locations unless one is an atheist.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Mike Hitch
> >www.mikehitch.com
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Raymond Montgomery [mailto:]
> >Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:28 PM
> >To:
> >Subject: [LDR] owner ship of the burial plots!
> >
> >
> >List et al:
> >First off this is way off topic, and
> >Second this is not right.
> >You are going to call senators and congressmen to try to enforce your will
> >on some one whom is using there land for what they own it for.
> >Talk about a warped society!
> >Who pray tell gives you the right to tell some one else what to do with
> >what
> >they own. I/they dont come into your home and tell you what to do with it.
> >Dont do it to some one else.
> >Get a clue people!
> >If she wants to control the property let her buy it. If she cant then let
> >her whine and moan with out letting us hear about it.
> >Yes this is harsh, but what I am seeing is extremely stupid!
> >RAY
> >
> >
> > >From: Carolyn Beachy <>
> > >To:
> > >Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #136
> > >Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:50:24 -0400
> > >
> > >your congressmen and senetors of the state that it is happening in is who
> > >you see. Call WBOS Salsbury Md. it's the TV station for the area and
> >Del.
> > >State news paper
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Subject:
> > > >
> > > > LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest Volume 02 :
> > >Issue 136
> > > >
> > > > Today's Topics:
> > > > #1 [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D D
> > >[]
> > > > #2 [LDR] Re: Handy Smith ["Nancy E. Gates"
> > ><.]
> > > > #3 [LDR] Ancestors' Graves Being Logg ["Bill Reder"
> > ><>]
> > > > #4 RE: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS ["Mike Hitch (Home)"
> > ><]
> > > > #5 [LDR] RE: Thomas Sewell and Jane B []
> > > >
> > > > Administrivia:
> > > > For information about the Lower Delmarva Roots Mailing List, including
> > >list guidelines and instructions for unsubscribing and subscribing, see
> >the
> > >LDRoots FAQ:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm
> > > >
> > > > ______________________________
> > > >
> > > >
> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #135
> > > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 14:38:58 -0400
> > > > From:
> > > > To:
> > > >
> > > > HELP! My ancestors graves in Zoar Delaware are being logged around and
> > >may
> > > > be destroyed!! Salmons?Davidson near route 296. What can i do to stop
> > >this?
> > > > i know it is illegal but it is happening very quickly! Please advise
> > >ASAP
> > > > Sheila Withelder 9Blackthorne Lane AstonPA 19014
> > > >
> > > > ______________________________
> > > >
> > > >
> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Subject: [LDR] Re: Handy Smith
> > > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:05:43 -0400
> > > > From: "Nancy E. Gates" <>
> > > > To:
> > > >
> > > > Still looking for the parents of Handy Smith who married (before 1830)
> > >Sarah
> > > > Littleton and Handy's sister Dortha Smith who married (1830) to Isaac
> > > > Littleton. Isaac and Sarah Littleton were brother and sister also.
> > > > Thanks....Nancy
> > > > ************************************************
> > > > Genealogy Research:
> > > > Baker, Barnhouse, Enoch, Higgins,
> > > > Jarard/Jarrett, Tennant, Weekley
> > > > Gates, Lockhart, Collins, Smith
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: <>
> > > > To: <>
> > > > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 12:01 PM
> > > > Subject: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #135
> > > >
> > > > ______________________________
> > > >
> > > >
> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Subject: [LDR] Ancestors' Graves Being Logged Over
> > > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 19:11:39 -0500
> > > > From: "Bill Reder" <>
> > > > To:
> > > >
> > > > Wow, that's a toughie. I don't think it would hurt if you contacted
> >the
> > >Delaware Gen. Society. Some of those guys are pretty well connected and
> >my
> > >have enough juice to at least get the stones archived before the Loggers
> >do
> > >the dirty deed. The DGS website is: www.delgensoc.org Might cost you the
> > >price of a membership, or some private Gen. Research time, but at
> > >$15.00/annum for the membership, that's a bargain. Not sure about the
> > >price for the Researcher. Best of luck. Cathy Prettyman Reder
> > > >
> > > > ______________________________
> > > >
> > > >
> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Subject: RE: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #135
> > > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 21:49:48 -0400
> > > > From: "Mike Hitch (Home)" <>
> > > > To:
> > > >
> > > > You might contact the logging company to just let them know you know
> >the
> > > > graves are there and hope that they willl take care to work around
> >them.
> > > > They are likely to be much more carefull if they know "someone is
> > >watching."
> > > >
> > > > Sincerely,
> > > > Mike Hitch
> > > > http://www.mikehitch.com
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From:
> > > > [mailto:]
> > > > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 2:39 PM
> > > > To:
> > > > Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V02 #135
> > > >
> > > > HELP! My ancestors graves in Zoar Delaware are being logged around and
> > >may
> > > > be destroyed!! Salmons?Davidson near route 296. What can i do to stop
> > >this?
> > > > i know it is illegal but it is happening very quickly! Please advise
> > >ASAP
> > > > Sheila Withelder 9Blackthorne Lane AstonPA 19014
> > > >
> > > > ==== LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS Mailing List ====
> > > > The Lower Delmarva Genealogical Society Online:
> > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ldgs/
> > > >
> > > > ______________________________
> > > >
> > > >
> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Subject: [LDR] RE: Thomas Sewell and Jane Boist
> > > > Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 00:17:35 EDT
> > > > From:
> > > > To:
> > > >
> > > > Years ago my Great Aunt Ouida Milner researched the Rev John Harris
> >line
> > >for
> > > > a booklet, "Our Harris Family". Rev Harris was the husband of Mary
> > >Handy,
> > > > daughter of Issac Handy and Anne Dashiell. She referred to a book by
> > >Clara
> > > > May Denham Haines entitled "Visit our Family Tree".
> > > >
> > > > Mrs Haines states that Samuel Handy married MARY SEWELL, daughter of
> >the
> > >Hon.
> > > > Henry Sewell and his wife Jane (Lowe) Sewell. It went on to say that
> > >Henry
> > > > arrived in America in 1661 and received the grant of "Mataponi" in
> >1663.
> > > The
> > > > Handy-Sewell marriage is recorded in the Stepney Parish records in
> > >Somerset
> > > > County. Perhaps someone with access to those records could find the
> > >names of
> > > > Mary Sewell's parents.
> > > >
> > > > Secondly, I have "A Somerset Sampler-Families of Old Somerset County,
> > > > Maryland 1700-1776" copyrighted in 1994 by the Lower Demarva
> > >Genealogical
> > > > Society. On page 173, it states that Jeffrey Long, son of Samuel and
> > >Jane
> > > > (minshall) Long, b. at
> > > > Mormusco and a resident of Annemessex Hd., m. MARY SEWELL, daughter of
> > >Thomas
> > > > and Jane (Boice/Boist) Sewell, and had issure: a) Samuel b)
> >Jeffrey
> > > > c)Sewell d) Jane e) David f) Mary. David and Mary were under age
> >in
> > >1731.
> > > > (Somerset Co, Deeds, IKL; Tax lists for Somerset Co; wills of David
> > >Long, 26
> > > > Nov 1716-1718 Mar 1716(7) and Jeoffey Long, 1 July 1731-17 June 1732,
> > > > Somerset Co, Wills, EB-9:18-19, 138-39 and Dryden, Somerset Co, Land
> > >Records,
> > > > p. 220.
> > > >
> > > > Looks like there could be two Mary Sewells.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Kathy Lynn
> > >
> > >
> > >==== LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS Mailing List ====
> > >Handley's Eastern Shore Genealogy Project:
> > >http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/
> >
> >
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> Subject: [LDR] Re: TRANQUAKING RIVER
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 16:05:14 -0400
> From: "Parker & Trisha Todd" <>
> To:
>
> Hi Ron,
>
> All records that exist for the Transquaking Meeting prior to it's formation
> (with Little Choptank Meeting) into a Preparative Meeting can be found in
> the records of Third Haven Meeting in Easton. They have been abstracted in
> some of Ed Wright's vital record books and in "Quakerism on the Eastern
> Shore" by Kenneth Carroll.
>
> Mr. Carroll states that "Transquaking, c. 1690-c. 1740, was near Linkwood,
> Dorchester County. Together with Little Choptank Meeting it formed
> Transquaking Preparative Meeting."
>
> Little Choptank Meeting was a little older and lasted a few years longer
> than did Transquaking Meeting. It was located on Little Choptank River and
> Fishing Creek.
>
> Parker

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