[5] In 1667, the first Meeting of Commissions was held in the home known as Widow Winkles on the Skipton Creek near the town of York.

[6] Pitts' Bridge was just north of the Quaker Meeting House, but most importantly, it faced the Indian trail (Washington Street – Easton).

After the American Revolutionary War in 1786, Act to Assemble in Annapolis appointed John Needles to survey and "to erect a town in Talbot County to be called Talbottown"—laying out a town around then existing court house with 118 number parcels of land and designated streets, alleys and lanes.

[6] Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman, Gen. George Washington's aide-de-camp, was born on Fausley in Talbot County on December 25, 1744.

He took an early and active part in the great contest that secured the Independence of the United States of America.

Its background is purpure, a color assigned to Talbot County in 1694 by Maryland's royal governor, Sir Francis Nicholson.

Below the lion is the Latin motto, Tempus Praeteritum Et Futurum, meaning "Times, Past and Future.

Lord Baltimore invited the refugees to Maryland Province to settle, and passed the Toleration Act.

[10] John Edmondson gave the Quakers land on which to settle near the Tred Avon River in what later became the town now known as Easton, Maryland.

The Meeting House sits on high ground surrounded by 3 wooded acres and is positioned along the Indian Trail (today known as Washington Street).

[13] Father Joseph Mosely, a Jesuit, established the church in 1765 on a farm north of Easton in Cordova.

Father Mosley explained the foundation in a letter to his sister: It's a Mission that ought to have been settled above these sixty years past by means of the immense trouble and excessive rides it hade given our gentlemen that lived next to it; till these days no one would undertake it, wither for want to resolution of fear of the trouble, notwithstanding it had contributed to the death of several of ours and had broken the constitution of everyone who went down to it; although it was but twice a year, except calls to the sick.

I was deputed in August 1764 to settle a new place in the midst of this mission’ accordingly, I set off for those parts of the country; I examined the situation of every congregation within sixty miles of it; and, before the end of the year, I came across the very spot, as providence would have it, with land to be sold, nigh the center of the whole that was to be tended.

The Talbot Historical Society restored the schoolhouse to it original form, removing the electrical lights and the modern plumbing and added the outhouse to the back of the building.

Poplar Island is only accessible by boat today and is currently being rebuilt by the Army Corps of Engineers.

In 1691, King William and Queen Mary appointed Sir Lionel Copely as the first royal governor and told him that the colonists needed to become more religious.

The Establishment Act, in 1692, divided Talbot County into three parishes to serve the Church of England, and Old White Marsh was one of them.

Membership decreased when Reverend Bacon left to assume leadership of Maryland's largest parish (at that time), All Saints Church in Frederick, Maryland, and services alternated between White Marsh and the new Christ Church in the growing county seat at Easton.

[18] Services finally ended at White Marsh, and the church was abandoned after it burned in brush fire during a cleanup operation in 1897.

[21] In June 2020, a lengthy series of letters to the editor of The Talbot Spy, a local newspaper, was published, all arguing for the removal of the statue.

[25][26] Near the Talbot Boys monument, a statue of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, born into slavery near Tuckahoe Creek, stands in front of the courthouse.

[21] A chapel of ease near the Wye River was likely built soon after the creation of Saint Paul's Parish (Centreville) by the act of establishment of 1692.

In 2020, Joe Biden became the first Democratic presidential nominee to carry Talbot County since Lyndon Johnson's 1964 landslide and the second since Franklin Roosevelt in 1936.

Choptank River takes its name from a tribe of Algonquian-speaking Indians who inhabited both shores of this stream before its settlement by the English.

In colonial times all grants of land from the Lords Baltimore were in the shape of leases subject to small and nominal ground rents, reserved by the Proprietary, and payable annually at Michaelmas, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels.

Because of this association, St. Michael was considered to be the patron saint of colonial Maryland, and as such was honored by the river being named for him.

[35] As early as 1667, six years after the laying out of Talbot County, references to these names are found in the Proceedings of the Provincial Council of Maryland.

[citation needed] At the same time, a similar commission was issued to Hopkin Davis, as Captain of foot in Choptanck and St.

In colonial days, many merchant vessels traded between Oxford and Bristol, England, near which Easton is located.

The county is located in Baltimore's designated market area, but Salisbury, Maryland and Washington, D.C. stations are also sometimes available.