Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-06-10
SIGNIFICANCE OF NAMES.
How Geographic and Other Nomenclature
Has Keen Changed in Maryland.

How Geographic and Other Nomenclature
Has Keen Changed in Maryland. r.
Baltimore Sun. u
A clergyman, a native Of New England,
and who came to Talbot county, where
he has been living several years, from
that section says it struck him as a
peculiar fact that in this county the
farms had names. 1t did not strike
him as at all peculiar that in Massa-
chusetts there liz Hadley, North,
South, East and West BHdey, New
South HadIey and West New South
Hadey, all 10 the same township.
Many Of the Eastern Shore farm
names are historical, some descriptive
and others merely fanciful. Many of the
local names have been corrupted and
so changed in spelling and pronuncia-
tion that only research can determine
the original name. For instance there
is creek and farm Oh it. that this
and the preceding generation at least
have known as "Fox Hole" and written
and spoken it SO. The name given the
place in the colupial warranty is the
English "VRuxhal., " and in subss-
qusnt paper it appeared as "Folk's
Hall" The creek is branch of
beautiful river which itself has several
spelIings in the legal papers of preced-
ing generations, in the old local histories
| and on the OLD local maps, the most
com mon OF which are Third Haven.
Tired Avon, Tread Haven and Tread
Avon. The late DIR. Samuel A. Harri-
son, tho accomplished and painstaking
annalist, of Talbot county, gave the
matter as thorough an investigation as
sible, arriving at the conclusion that
| Third Haven was the original use and
that it is the best spelling now 1t is
| the third haven, making in from the
bold, broad and often rough Choprank
aboriginal, meaning, "where there is
bend or turn olf'') River, Harris
Creek being first and Broad Creek the
second, and on some of charts these
creeiSs are laid down as First Haven
and Second Haven. But the euphonious
Tired Avon" is now tie current use.
At the mouth of this river are two
points, named respectively Benoni He,
brew anu Bacnelor (Anglu. Saxon. J
Who the ''son Of my sorrow" was that
gave this beautiful name 10 this pnint
is forever lost TO histroy. We know
mora about the bachelor who lived on
the opposite point. Further up the
river is Clora's Point beautiful
name, frequently corrupted into Glory q
Point. May it not have been Uhoe' 8
Point-a favorite name in the old times?
The two points at the mouth of
Chester River are He'll Point and Love
Point, All the maps and writings of
the past have them SO, but an ATTEMPT
was made to corrupt the former into
Hail Point. Bat it must not be for
| FfTtf fam of r ,Vg In I,t ho
pious Euphumists few years ago to
cnange "lielI Gate" into Hurl Gate,
People who think there ia no hell, in
geographical nomenclature, are mis-.
taken. The idea of having her hoy hap.
tized Jehovah could never enter the
mlnG Of a Talbot county mother but
one. and u very goud ana pinus woman
she was, too, did name her son Adonai,
another form of the same worn. Evil
IDENTITY the preacher who baptized them
was not hebrast. 1t was not a Talbot
county, but Massachusetts, father, on
the authority of doctor of divinity in
that State, who presented his twirs for
baptism. naming them "Cherubin and
Seraphim." "Wby give them these
nanes?" asked the officiating priest.
"Because they continually do cry, "
was the response.
The late REV. DR.. John +. Chaplain
of the Philadelphia Conference, Dor.
chester county man, and brother of Prof.
Alexander Chaplain, school examiner OF
Talbot county, had singular experience
in lone of the lower Countless lie
went to preach one Sunday in an outly.
ing post Of a country circuit and was
told that Tom Bilfln, farmer of the
neighborhood. wanted him to go TO his
house in the afternoon and "christen'
his five small children. DR.. Chaplain
went, and after heing there some time
and seeing no children ne asked fol
them. They're out-a' doors" +" said tine
farmer, most Likely in the corn. I'll