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Worcester county was created on the previously neglected ocean
side of Maryland shortly after a 26 November 1669 surveyor
report of Dutch encroachment at Cape Henlopen (see New
Netherland).  - Old Worcester County, Maryland extended along
the entire Atlantic coast between Virginia (southern most branch
of Rehobeth Bay) and Pennsylvania (40o north latitude). This
included all of the present day State of Delaware. It also seems
to have included Durham County which had just been organized by
the Maryland Council a month before in what is now southern Kent
County, Delaware, and northern Sussex County, Delaware. - 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 1674, at the
end of an Anglo-Dutch war, the Duke of York assumed authority
over the Delaware part o