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From: "Jacque-Lynne Schulman" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #195
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:13:58 -0400
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In May of 1861, my great-grandfather's eldest brother Oliver crossed the Bay
from Dorchester, Maryland over to York, Virginia. He signed-up with what
became the 32nd VA Infantry, CSA. In April of 1865 he was captured in
Richmond and paroled. He returned to Dorchester, served two terms as
Delegate in State House. In the 1880s, he came back to western shore, this
time to Washington, DC. Of his 11 siblings, 10 came to Washington DC or
Baltimore after than War. I guess there was little left of the old economy
in Dorchester or elsewhere on the ES.

Capt Oliver P. Johnson is buried in the Confederate section (Jackson Circle)
at Arlington Cemetery, a US Military cemetery on the grounds of the "Lee
Mansion". Known as Arlington House, it was built by a member of the same
Custis family that built the first Arlington House on the Virginia ES. .

J-L


----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Green" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 1:06 PM
Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #195


> I would like to thank you all for the answers to my question about
migration
> from the Eastern Shore to York County. It seems that nearly everyone who
> whose York County lineage predates the Civil War has at least one Eastern
> Shore connection. York County in the late 1700s and early 1800s was
fairly
> sparsely populated. We were a fairly large county with a great deal of
> shoreline. It seemed that most of the Eastern Shore immigrants to our
county
> were watermen or sailors. Many of their descendants continue to work the
> water to the present day. The Eastern Shore families that came to York
> County were: Bunting, Crockett, Ironmonger, Hopkins,
> Messick, Mills, Montgomery,Pauls, Winder, Sterling (to Gloucester County)
> Wallace (to Fox Hill),Drummond (to Hampton) and Wainwright. I am sure
that
> I missed a few. I descend from the Wainwright, Hopkins and Messick
families.
> I am glad that I found this forum.
> Frank Green
> Poquoson VA
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