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A Brief History of Queen Anne County, Maryland

The original inhabitants were the Matapeakes, Ozinies, Monoponsons, and the ? Choptanks.  In 1608 Capt.John Smith named Queen Anne's County " Brooke's Forest "  In 1627 Comm. William Clayborne chose Kent Island as the site for a trading  post and the first settlement in Maryland, which is now part of Queen Anne's  County.  Queen Anne's County was originally Kent County from 1632 through 1662. Queen Anne's County was embraced as part of Talbot County in 1662, excluding Kent Island, Queen Anne's County was erected in 1706, including Kent Island.  The county was named for Queen Anne who had ascended the throne a few years prior.  Queen Anne's County is 401 square miles or 257,920 acres. The county is bound by Kent County to the NW, Delaware and Caroline County at  the E and SE, Talbot County to the S, and the Chesapeake Bay to the W. The county seat was Queenstown from 1706 until 1784. In 1784 the county seat was removed to Centreville.  Queen Anne's planters and farmers grew: Buckwheat, Indian Corn, Oats, Rye, Wheat, Hay, Irish Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes and Orchard Products.  By 1880 there were 1279 farms in Queen Anne's County. 
For more information on Queen Anne's History, it's inhabitants, settlers, their way of life and their place in Maryland and America's history you should read the following:  Queen Anne's County, Maryland by Frederick Emory, Old Kent : The Eastern Shore of Maryland by George Hanson, Early Buildings and Historic Artifacts in Tidewater Maryland, The Eastern Shore,  by Dr.H.Chandlee Forman, Queenstown, The Social History of a Small American Town, by Harry C.Rhodes, Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War by Eric Mills.