NANTICOKE
FACES OUT OF THE PAST
“ANNALS OF
ANNAPOLIS”
BY
RIDGELY
Baltimore
Sun , October 6, 1880; Baltimore. Maryland
Ridgely, in
his “Annals of Annapolis” speaks of the apparitions of two old
Indians, “King
Abraham” and
“Queen Sarah” the last survivors of the settlement of Nanticoke
Indians in Dorchester
County,
Maryland, the tribe having removed to Canada, who used to be seen
in and around Annapolis
before the
Revolution. They came and went across the Chesapeake Bay in their
canoe like ghost out
of the past,
and were the spectators of a 'growth and progress' they could not
understand.
Here were
swamp and forest where they speared fish, took oysters and crabs,
are industries,
elevator
piers, black hulled steamers sending forth their various clamors to
frenzy the air.
Finally they
came no more.
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