 In 1851, Dorchester County delegate and future Maryland Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks proposed an amendment that would give the Eastern Shore the right to vote itself into Delaware, but the amendment failed 51–27.Some studies have shown that Native Americans inhabited the peninsula from about 8000–10000 BC – since the last Ice Age.Recent research indicates that Paleoamericans inhabited Maryland during the pre-Clovis period (before 13,000 BP).