Abstracts of the Debt Books of the Provincial Land Office of Maryland. Worcester County, Volume II

Description

Worcester County, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, was cut from Somerset County in 1742. (Like its parent county, Worcester County, Maryland, later also lost land to Sussex County (at one time part of Pennsylvania), Delaware, in 1766. This is the second of three volumes on Worcester County that are part of the ongoing series Abstracts of the Debt Books of the Provincial Land Office of Maryland, by Vernon L. Skinner. The information in this volume is presented in tabular form: liber and folio citation, with any pertinent date; name of the person paying the taxes; and name of the tract of land and amount of acreage.