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.

KC-44

Location:

818 Kitts Hummock Road, Dover, DE 19901

 

Links to more resources:

• KC-44: Collected Research Materials
• DE Library Catalog: The early settlement and founding of Kent County, Delaware [1671-1683], by Jackson, James B
• DE Library Catalog: Name list for Original land titles in Delaware commonly known as The Duke of York record … 1646 to 1679, by Eastman, Mary Huse