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Revision as of 15:52, 4 November 2008 by DiltsGD - Durham was
created as an original new county on the previously neglected
oceanside of the Maryland Colony on 22 October 1669. - Durham
County, Maryland was in what is now southern Kent County, and
northern Sussex County, Delaware (claimed for a short while by
New Netherlands, and then by Maryland, and Pennsylvania). - 47
new land grants for Maryland were granted in Durham County as
late as 1682, although Durham County should have been
incorporated into old Worcester County, Maryland in 1670. - In
1738 Maryland recognized the claim of Pennsylvania to the lower
three counties on the Delaware River (now the State of Delaware)
including what was once all of Durham County, or later part of
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