Monday, May 11, 2009  Cruising the Choptank River  I am
completely amazed that it has been almost 3 weeks since I posted
anything here. So much for that resolution about advancing my
research every week. Ah, well....I did learn how to knit socks.
Anyway, when last I worked on the research, I was trying to find
out where the early Dehorty lands were after attending a
wonderful workshop in Maryland. One of the earliest land records
that I have for this family is for a George Dehorty who had a
survey in 1715 for 100 acres of land called Venture "beginning
at a white oak standing in the woods on the North side of
Ingrams Creek that (?) out of the south side of Great Choptanks
River" (my translation of a Maryland land record, liber FF7,
page 121). My thought was to try to figure out where this might
be....not that I expect that old white oak to still be there.
Googling "Ingram's Creek Choptank River" leads me to a wonderful
site called the Choptank River Heritage Center. Here I find that
I can take a virtual tour