This part of what is now Kent County, Delaware was one of the state’s earliest sites of English colonization. Beginning in the 1660’s plantations were established along the St. Jones River. The Dickinson family of Talbot County, Maryland was among the families who obtained early land patents in this area. Parts of “Merritts”, “Whartons” and “Youngs” tracts were among the lands purchased by the Dickinsons with pounds of tobacco.
Installed in 1990.
The State of Delaware Historical Markers Program, 1990
818 Kitts Hummock Road, Dover, DE 19901
Related Topics: Dickinson, Dickinson Family, Dover, Historic Location, Historical Markers, Kent, Kent County, Maryland, Merritt, Merritt Tract, Plantations, St. Jones, St. Jones Neck, St. Jones River, Talbot, Tobacco, Wharton, Wharton Tract, Young, Young Tract
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