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County Administrative Building 200 Chesapeake Blvd., Suite 2100
Elkton, MD 21921 Ph: (410) 996-5201 Register of Wills Circuit
Courthouse 129 East Main Street - Suite 102 Elkton, Maryland
21921 Fax (410) 996-1039 Register of Wills, Cecil County P O Box
468 Elkton, MD 21922-0468 Business Hours: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Monday through Friday Though Cecil County was not established by
Lord Baltimore and his colonists until 1674, a small settlement
came prior to that time. In 1633, twenty five years after John
Smith sailed the tributaries of the Upper Chesapeake Bay,
Englishman William Claiborne opened a trading post on Palmers
Island at the mouth of the Susquehanna. He traded beavers and
furs with the Susquehannocks, and sold them to the French in
Canada. A small settlement and a plantation surrounded the first
white man's post in the area. There are two names that will
forever be linked to the establishment of Cecil County. The
first is the Second Lord Baltimo