View of the Patuxent River behind the Harbor Master's House in Lower Marlboro.
The Dolphin, carrying 230 Acadians, anchored here.
The Dolphin, carrying 230 Acadians, anchored here.
Acadians in Lower Marlboro and Upper Marlboro
Harbor Master's House (river view); built ca. 1670. On Lower Marlboro Road at the Patuxent River
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Harbor Master's House (street view)
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Sign at the Harbor Master's House
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On 30 November, 1755, the sloop Dolphin was ordered by the Maryland Council (acting in the absence of Governor Sharpe) to follow the sloop Elizabeth down the Chesapeake and then travel up the Patuxent River to Lower Marlboro. Here, behind the Harbor Master's House (pictured above), did 230 Acadian exiles disembark from the Dolphin.
The Harbor Master House was built ca. 1670 and would have been one of the first seen by the Acadians following their arrival in Lower Marlboro. These Acadians would be split into three groups and settled at Lower Marlboro, Upper Marlboro and Port Tobacco. Today few reminders of their 12-year stay in Lower Marlboro and Upper Marlboro remain. The Acadians in Lower Marlboro certainly passed the 1750s Grahame House during their daily journeys. The 1763 census indicates there were 27 Acadians living in Lower Marlboro, 58 in Upper Marlboro, and 157 in Port Tobacco.
The Harbor Master House was built ca. 1670 and would have been one of the first seen by the Acadians following their arrival in Lower Marlboro. These Acadians would be split into three groups and settled at Lower Marlboro, Upper Marlboro and Port Tobacco. Today few reminders of their 12-year stay in Lower Marlboro and Upper Marlboro remain. The Acadians in Lower Marlboro certainly passed the 1750s Grahame House during their daily journeys. The 1763 census indicates there were 27 Acadians living in Lower Marlboro, 58 in Upper Marlboro, and 157 in Port Tobacco.
Lower Marlboro and Upper Marlboro border the Patuxent River in two separate counties: Calvert and Prince George's. At the time the Acadians arrived, Upper Marlboro was a central hub for international tobacco trade, with warehouses full of expensive tobacco bound for foreign markets. Homes Acadians may have seen during their time in Lower Marlboro and Upper Marlboro follow.
Grahame House (Patuxent Manor; Lower Marlboro Road [MD 262] near Scraggs Road); built in 1750s - Photo courtesy of the Maryland Historical Trust
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Buck-Wardrop House (Darnall's Chance; 14800 Governor Oden Bowie Drive) - built ca. 1742 - Photo courtesy of the Maryland Historical Trust
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Billingsley House (6900 Green Landing Road) built before 1740 - Photo courtesy of Prince George's County Department of Parks and Recreation
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Mount Airy (Dower House; 8716 Rosaryville Road in Rosaryville State Park); built ca. 1760-1770 - Photo courtesy of the Maryland Historical Trust
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Kingston (5415 Old Crain Highway); built ca. 1730 and the oldest building in Upper Marlboro - Photo courtesy of the Maryland Historical Trust
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Overseer's House (5611 Old Crain Highway at Route 4); built ca. 1750 - Photo courtesy of the Maryland Historical Trust
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Mount Pleasant (3403 Mount Pleasant Road); built ca. 1750 - Photo courtesy of the Maryland Historical Trust
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Acadian Surnames of Lower and Upper Marlboro
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Lower Marlboro
+ These four households all self-designated as “prisoners of war” in 1763. This is a significant attribute since it appears nowhere else, except in Lower Marlboro. It perhaps reflects their isolation and the fact that these surnames appear only here (except for Michel David of Snow Hill). |
Upper Marlboro
*Families with Spanish surnames and Acadian wives |
Acadians in Lower and Upper Marlboro (1763)
Acadians at Lower Marlboro, MD; 7 July 1763 (Public Archives of Canada; M.G. 5, A-1, Vol. 450, Folio 444, p. 209)
Acadians at Upper Marlboro, MD; 7 July 1763 (Public Archives of Canada; M.G. 5, A-1, Vol. 450, Folio 444v, p. 210)
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Acadians at Upper Marlboro, MD; 7 July 1763 (Public Archives of Canada; M.G. 5, A-1, Vol. 450, Folio 444v, p. 211)
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Published Courtesy of Library and Archives Canada
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