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When they reached the spot whereLa Trappe River joined the Choptank they detected large numbers of fowl rafting at t their heavy wing feathers every summer and remained earthbound for about six weeks, during which they could ”   The marriage took place on Monday afternoon following the second Sunday. There was, of course, excitement, but it rarely arrived from the outside world.

But when the vessel approached Peace Cliff, old George Paxmore, who had built her, studied her with his gla But it was east of Patamoke that the Choptank became most memorable, for here vast marshes spread along the shore, marked now and t n liberty to almost half his crew, who were now forag­ing the shores of the bay for food and water. He sought the Paxmores, too, but the young men who ran the boatyard warned him, “Steeds and Paxmores do not