Philip Merrill

Philip Merrill

male, deceased (2006)
suicide by firearm in the United States, American newspaper publisher, banker, chesapeakebay, University of Maryland, College Park benefactors, philanthropist
Philip Merrill was an American diplomat, publisher, banker, and philanthropist who committed suicide while traveling alone on his boat in the...
Adam Thoroughgood

Adam Thoroughgood

male, deceased (1640)
Virginia colonial, Jamestown, atlantic ocean, chesapeakebay, colonist, county…City of Chesapeake
Adam Thoroughgood was a colonist and community leader in the Virginia Colony who helped settle the area of South Hampton Roads known in...
Joshua Barney

Joshua Barney

male, deceased (1818)
John Stricker, wasp, American Revolutionary War, Battle of Bladensburg, Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, USS Commodore Barney…chesapeakebay
Joshua Barney (6 July 1759 - 1 December 1818) was a commodore in the United States Navy who served in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812....
William W. Warner

William W. Warner

male, 89 years old
Chesapeake, Biologist, writer, pulitzer prize, Non-fiction writer, chesapeakebay
William W. Warner (born April 2, 1920) is an American biologist and writer. He was awarded the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his...
William Claiborne

William Claiborne

male, deceased (1677)
Parliament of the United Kingdom, York River, puritan, English Civil War, Virginia colonial, Lord Baltimore…chesapeakebay
William Claiborne (also spelled William Clayborne) was an English pioneer and surveyor who was an early settler of Virginia and Maryland. Claiborne...
Augustine Herman

Augustine Herman

male, deceased (1686)
herman, new amsterdam, czech, cartography, Cartographer, chesapeakebay…Delaware Bay
Augustine Herman, First Lord of Bohemia Manor was a Czech explorer, merchant, and cartographer who lived in New Amsterdam and Cecil County,...
William Stone

William Stone

male, deceased (1695)
Maryland colonial, Province of Maryland, English Civil War, nottinghamshire, annapolis, Church of England…chesapeakebay
William Stone (1603-1695) was an English pioneer and an early settler in Maryland. He was governor of the colony of Maryland from 1649 to 1655....

Patty Cannon

female
Maryland Eastern Shore native, from Maryland, Woodland Ferry, Nanticoke River, African Observer, Martha "Patty" Cannon…chesapeakebay
Martha "Patty" Cannon, who apparently settled in the United States from Canada in 1802, was the leader of a gang in the early 1800s that kidnapped...

William Dawes

male, deceased (1836)
royal marine officer, English, Explorer of Australia, explorer, Royal Marine, British…chesapeakebay, Battle of the Chesapeake
William Dawes was an officer of Royal Marines, scientist, surveyor and administrator. He travelled to New South Wales with the First Fleet on board...

Weroance

male
monarch, Virginia Colony, Powhatan Confederacy, powhatan, Jamestown, chesapeakebay
A weroance is an Algonquian word meaning tribal chief, leader, commander, or king, notably among the Powhatan confederacy of the Virginia coast and...