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Kent County has retained its serenity and beauty in the face of the passage of time. Situated on a peninsula where the Chester and Sassafras Rivers amble gently into the Chesapeake Bay, Kent County boasts miles of picturesque shoreline that provide perfect frame for the miles of undeveloped farmland that makes up the heart of the county.
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William A. "Pat" Biddle
Coauthors William A. “Pat” Biddle, Patricia Joan O. Horsey, and R. Jerry Keiser live and work in Kent County and are active in helping preserve it.
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Kent County - William A. "Pat" Biddle
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INTRODUCTION
In their makeshift shallop, Capt. John Smith and his crew entered the Sassafras River in the late summer of 1608. Today the Sassafras River forms the northern boundary of Kent County, Maryland. Smith originally called the river Tockwough after the Native Americans who lived on the southern banks of the river. Smith’s crew skirted the coastline of Kent County to the mouth of the Chester River before crossing the Chesapeake Bay to the western shore on their journey back south to Jamestown. In one of the most famous images of America, Smith’s 1612 Map of Virginia, Kent County is shown with the name Tockwough over what is the Kent County peninsula today.
Kent County, named for Kent County in England, was officially founded in 1642, about 34 years after John Smith discovered and explored its northern boundary. On Kent’s southern boundary is the Chester River, a river that also meanders its way to the Chesapeake Bay. On the banks of this river, the town of Newtown (later named Chestertown) was founded.
Chestertown was designated as the port of entry for the northern counties of Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne’s Counties. Founded in 1706, Chestertown is the largest town in Kent County and is the county seat. Chestertown has maintained most of its 18th-century architecture and history, both of which are on display every Memorial Day weekend for the Chestertown Tea Party. This annual event commemorates the boarding of the brigantine Geddes, anchored in the Chester River on May 23, 1774. A group of citizens tossed the Geddes cargo of tea into the Chester River in response to the closing of the Port of Boston.
In addition to dissenting against Great Britain’s colonial policies, Chestertown and Kent County contributed men, arms, and food to the Revolutionary War effort. Kent County was the most vital source on the Eastern Shore for armaments, and the war contributions from the area’s farmers and millers led the area to be called the bread basket of the revolution.
Finally, at the war’s end, Col. Tench Tilghman carried the news of Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown on horseback through the Kent County countryside to Philadelphia.
With the war over, the citizens of Kent County returned to their farms, mercantile affairs, and to the proper education of their young men. It was in Kent County, in the town of Chestertown, that Washington College was founded in 1782. The institution has been a significant part of Kent County and the nation’s history, as it was the first college founded in the United States of America. Named for George Washington, it was the only college to receive his expressed consent
for the naming. In addition, he donated funds to its founding. Throughout his life, Washington’s connection with the school became a source of historical pride for the county
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