--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, Jason Hudson <hudsonjlee@...> wrote:
>
>
> I was just looking at Dennis Security again yesterday and a 50 acre parcel adjcent to its west, 'Buck Ridge' surveyed/patented (1749/1751) by Samuel Smallwood. The oddest thing is that he & a Thomas Smallwood also show up along with 'Ezekiah Hudson' in John Aydlot Hudson's 1752 Inventory of Estate; John A being the brother of Hezekiah Hudson who swapped Hudson's Addition for Dennis Security in 1762. I have wondered if John A had Hudson's Addition before Hezekiah though if it was close to Dennis Security I haven't made the connection.
>
> Anyone have anything on this Samuel Smallwood or Buck Ridge?
>
> Jason
>
> "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
>
>
>
>
>
>
> To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> From: kenbunting@...
> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:32:09 +0000
> Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Solving the location of Jinneys Addtion is tantalizing. It would have to have been NE of present Selbyville. The deed mentions land flooded from the Isaiah, Zeno and Joseph Long mill. A study of the contours and elevations shows that the stream Sandy Branch would hardly have been affected more than 200' upstream from the pond. In any case the property above the junction of Sandy Branch and Polly Branch belonged to Samuel Truitt. However Polly Branch, which enters the former location of the pond from the NE, would have been flooded upstream for about 2,500' to 3,000' or about 600' upstream from where Zoar Church now stands. However, the flooding even at most would have been no more than an acre wide and maybe 3 acres in length and is/was too swampy for agriculture. This area is no more than 1,000' N of Roxana Rd, a state road even then, and not mentioned in the deed. My guess at present is that Jinneys Addition stretched northward from Pollys Branch and that Dennis Security belonging to Benjamin and David Hudson was to the W/NW of it between Polly Branch and Jay Patch Swamp.
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, Jason Hudson <hudsonjlee@...> wrote:
>
>
> Marjorie,
>
> I saw the photos but hadn't read the patent until a couple days ago when I looked them up on the MSA site because I cannot read the images on the Selbyville site.
>
> Jason
>
> "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
>
>
>
>
>
>
> To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> From: marjea@...
> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 03:42:25 +0000
> Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Re: Jinneys Addition
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Buck Ridge is in the Land Tracts album "near Sandy Branch".
>
> --- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, Jason Hudson <hudsonjlee@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I was just looking at Dennis Security again yesterday and a 50 acre parcel adjcent to its west, 'Buck Ridge' surveyed/patented (1749/1751) by Samuel Smallwood. The oddest thing is that he & a Thomas Smallwood also show up along with 'Ezekiah Hudson' in John Aydlot Hudson's 1752 Inventory of Estate; John A being the brother of Hezekiah Hudson who swapped Hudson's Addition for Dennis Security in 1762. I have wondered if John A had Hudson's Addition before Hezekiah though if it was close to Dennis Security I haven't made the connection.
> >
> > Anyone have anything on this Samuel Smallwood or Buck Ridge?
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> > From: kenbunting@
> > Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:32:09 +0000
> > Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Solving the location of Jinneys Addtion is tantalizing. It would have to have been NE of present Selbyville. The deed mentions land flooded from the Isaiah, Zeno and Joseph Long mill. A study of the contours and elevations shows that the stream Sandy Branch would hardly have been affected more than 200' upstream from the pond. In any case the property above the junction of Sandy Branch and Polly Branch belonged to Samuel Truitt. However Polly Branch, which enters the former location of the pond from the NE, would have been flooded upstream for about 2,500' to 3,000' or about 600' upstream from where Zoar Church now stands. However, the flooding even at most would have been no more than an acre wide and maybe 3 acres in length and is/was too swampy for agriculture. This area is no more than 1,000' N of Roxana Rd, a state road even then, and not mentioned in the deed. My guess at present is that Jinneys Addition stretched northward from Pollys Branch and that Dennis Security belonging to Benjamin and David Hudson was to the W/NW of it between Polly Branch and Jay Patch Swamp.
> >
>

> The "Delaware Genealogical Research Guide" by the DE Gen Soc lists on p9 of the 2002 edition that Guinea Town was the name used for the Williamsville in Milford Hd., Kent Co. This publication does not list Buck Hill, or any early name for the Williamsville in Sussex. What is you source Joan for your notes? A gentle reminder to everyone, mistakes are so easy for all of us to make, so please check your sources before you write. Thanks.

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING <kenbunting@...> wrote:
>
> I remember people who referred to Williamsville as Guinea Town.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "bluelightning75@..." <bluelightning75@...>
> To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 12:09:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
>
>  
> Without looking at my notes, I thought Buck Ridge was an old name for
> Williamsville.
>
>
> In a message dated 1/7/2011 10:18:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> hudsonjlee@... writes:
>  
> >I was just looking at Dennis Security again yesterday and a 50 acre parcel
> >adjcent to its west, 'Buck Ridge' surveyed/patented (1749/1751) by Samuel
> >Smallwood. The oddest thing is that he & a Thomas Smallwood also show up along
> >with 'Ezekiah Hudson' in John Aydlot Hudson's 1752 Inventory of Estate; John A
> >being the brother of Hezekiah Hudson who swapped Hudson's Addition for Dennis
> >Security in 1762. I have wondered if John A had Hudson's Addition before
> >Hezekiah though if it was close to Dennis Security I haven't made the
> >connection.
> > 
> >Anyone have anything on this Samuel Smallwood or Buck Ridge?
> > 
> >Jason
> >
> >"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> ________________________________
> To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> >From: kenbunting@...
> >Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:32:09 +0000
> >Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> >
> > 
> >
> >Solving the location of Jinneys Addtion is tantalizing. It would have to have
> >been NE of present Selbyville. The deed mentions land flooded from the Isaiah,
> >Zeno and Joseph Long mill. A study of the contours and elevations shows that the
> >stream Sandy Branch would hardly have been affected more than 200' upstream from
> >the pond. In any case the property above the junction of Sandy Branch and Polly
> >Branch belonged to Samuel Truitt. However Polly Branch, which enters the former
> >location of the pond from the NE, would have been flooded upstream for about
> >2,500' to 3,000' or about 600' upstream from where Zoar Church now stands.
> >However, the flooding even at most would have been no more than an acre wide and
> >maybe 3 acres in length and is/was too swampy for agriculture. This area is no
> >more than 1,000' N of Roxana Rd, a state road even then, and not mentioned in
> >the deed. My guess at present is that Jinneys Addition stretched northward from
> >Pollys Branch and that Dennis Securit y belonging to Benjamin and David Hudson
> >was to the W/NW of it between Polly Branch and Jay Patch Swamp.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING <kenbunting@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Interesting.  I never knew there was a Williamsville in Kent Co.  Do you suppose
> all the Williamsvilles used to be Guinea Towns?  At any rate the one we know
> about was probably named for Williams Mill on Derickson Creek and the numerous
> Williams in the area.  The mill and creek are marked on the Beers map, where it
> is called Herring Creek.   The name of the stream may have been changed to
> distinguish it from Herrring Creek in Worcester Co not far to the south.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: marjorie <marjea@...>
> To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 2:50:01 PM
> Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Re: Jinneys Addition
>
>  
> The "Delaware Genealogical Research Guide" by the DE Gen Soc lists on p9 of the
> 2002 edition that Guinea Town was the name used for the Williamsville in Milford
> Hd., Kent Co. This publication does not list Buck Ridge, or any early name for
> the Williamsville in Sussex.
>
>
> --- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING
> <kenbunting@> wrote:
> >
> > I remember people who referred to Williamsville as Guinea Town.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: "bluelightning75@" <bluelightning75@>
> > To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 12:09:42 AM
> > Subject: Re: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> >
> >  
> > Without looking at my notes, I thought Buck Ridge was an old name for
> > Williamsville.
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/7/2011 10:18:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > hudsonjlee@ writes:
> >  
> > >I was just looking at Dennis Security again yesterday and a 50 acre parcel
> > >adjcent to its west, 'Buck Ridge' surveyed/patented (1749/1751) by Samuel
> > >Smallwood. The oddest thing is that he & a Thomas Smallwood also show up
> >along
> >
> > >with 'Ezekiah Hudson' in John Aydlot Hudson's 1752 Inventory of Estate; John A
> >
> > >being the brother of Hezekiah Hudson who swapped Hudson's Addition for Dennis
> >
> > >Security in 1762. I have wondered if John A had Hudson's Addition before
> > >Hezekiah though if it was close to Dennis Security I haven't made the
> > >connection.
> > > 
> > >Anyone have anything on this Samuel Smallwood or Buck Ridge?
> > > 
> > >Jason
> > >
> > >"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > ________________________________
> > To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> > >From: kenbunting@
> > >Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:32:09 +0000
> > >Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > >Solving the location of Jinneys Addtion is tantalizing. It would have to have
>
> > >been NE of present Selbyville. The deed mentions land flooded from the Isaiah,
> >
> > >Zeno and Joseph Long mill. A study of the contours and elevations shows that
> >the
> >
> > >stream Sandy Branch would hardly have been affected more than 200' upstream
> >from
> >
> > >the pond. In any case the property above the junction of Sandy Branch and
> >Polly
> >
> > >Branch belonged to Samuel Truitt. However Polly Branch, which enters the
> >former
> >
> > >location of the pond from the NE, would have been flooded upstream for about
> > >2,500' to 3,000' or about 600' upstream from where Zoar Church now stands.
> > >However, the flooding even at most would have been no more than an acre wide
> >and
> >
> > >maybe 3 acres in length and is/was too swampy for agriculture. This area is no
> >
> > >more than 1,000' N of Roxana Rd, a state road even then, and not mentioned in
>
> > >the deed. My guess at present is that Jinneys Addition stretched northward
> >from
> >
> > >Pollys Branch and that Dennis Securit y belonging to Benjamin and David Hudson
> >
> > >was to the W/NW of it between Polly Branch and Jay Patch Swamp.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, "bluelightning7557" <bluelightning75@...> wrote:
>
> In the estate listing for John Bunting it states that a Jehu Bennett bought items but when listing in the data base it says John Bennett. I believe this to actually be Jehu Bennett. I have found no John Bennett in Baltimore Hundred until after the date of this sale.
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING <kenbunting@...> wrote:
>
> This is good stuff.  I have gotten quite a bit of information about Bishopville
> from the files of the Democratic Messenger in Snow Hill.  Was there ever a
> newspaper in Selbyville?  Georgetown?  What Sussex Co paper would be a good one
> to research?
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "bluelightning75@..." <bluelightning75@...>
> To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 8:04:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Re: Jinneys Addition
>
>  
> I got the name of Buck Hill for Williamsville from a article in "The Sussex
> Post, Millsboro, Delaware May 8, 1991"  Sussex Places  The title of the article
> is "A Deer Path Over a Rise Led to the Name of Buck Hill"
> written by Dennis Forney
>  
> Here is some of the article:
>  
> "WILLIAMSVILLE - This collection of houses, former stores and community
> buildings strung along the western quarter of Rt 54 in southeastern Sussex
> County and used tobe known as Buck Hill.
>     Kenneth Corby, whose family moved from dust bowl consitions in Saskatchewan,
> Canada in 1920 to Williamsville, knows the story:
>
>     'As flat as it is around here,' said Mr. Corby, 'there is a high spot that
> runs through town. They say that before there was any kind of town here, a deer
> path ran over that high spot. When the buck of the herd got to the top of the
> rise he would stop and look around and so the area came to be known as Buck
> Hill' ....."
>  
> The article continues with more history of the area.
>
>
>
> In a message dated 1/8/2011 2:59:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> marjea@... writes:
>  
> >> The "Delaware Genealogical Research Guide" by the DE Gen Soc lists on p9 of the
> >>2002 edition that Guinea Town was the name used for the Williamsville in Milford
> >>Hd., Kent Co. This publication does not list Buck Hill, or any early name for
> >>the Williamsville in Sussex. What is you source Joan for your notes? A gentle
> >>reminder to everyone, mistakes are so easy for all of us to make, so please
> >>check your sources before you write. Thanks.
> >
> >--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING
> ><kenbunting@> wrote:
> >>
> >> I remember people who referred to Williamsville as Guinea Town.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: "bluelightning75@" <bluelightning75@>
> >> To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> >> Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 12:09:42 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> >>
> >>  
> >> Without looking at my notes, I thought Buck Ridge was an old name for
> >> Williamsville.
> >>
> >>
> >> In a message dated 1/7/2011 10:18:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >> hudsonjlee@ writes:
> >>  
> >> >I was just looking at Dennis Security again yesterday and a 50 acre parcel
> >> >adjcent to its west, 'Buck Ridge' surveyed/patented (1749/1751) by Samuel
> >> >Smallwood. The oddest thing is that he & a Thomas Smallwood also show up
> >>along
> >>
> >> >with 'Ezekiah Hudson' in John Aydlot Hudson's 1752 Inventory of Estate; John A
> >>
> >> >being the brother of Hezekiah Hudson who swapped Hudson's Addition for Dennis
> >>
> >> >Security in 1762. I have wondered if John A had Hudson's Addition before
> >> >Hezekiah though if it was close to Dennis Security I haven't made the
> >> >connection.
> >> > 
> >> >Anyone have anything on this Samuel Smallwood or Buck Ridge?
> >> > 
> >> >Jason
> >> >
> >> >"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 
> >> >
> >> ________________________________
> >> To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> >> >From: kenbunting@
> >> >Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:32:09 +0000
> >> >Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> >> >
> >> > 
> >> >
> >> >Solving the location of Jinneys Addtion is tantalizing. It would have to have
> >
> >> >been NE of present Selbyville. The deed mentions land flooded from the Isaiah,
> >>
> >> >Zeno and Joseph Long mill. A study of the contours and elevations shows that
> >>the
> >>
> >> >stream Sandy Branch would hardly have been affected more than 200' upstream
> >>from
> >>
> >> >the pond. In any case the property above the junction of Sandy Branch and
> >>Polly
> >>
> >> >Branch belonged to Samuel Truitt. However Polly Branch, which enters the
> >>former
> >>
> >> >location of the pond from the NE, would have been flooded upstream for about
>
> >> >2,500' to 3,000' or about 600' upstream from where Zoar Church now stands.
> >> >However, the flooding even at most would have been no more than an acre wide
> >>and
> >>
> >> >maybe 3 acres in length and is/was too swampy for agriculture. This area is no
> >>
> >> >more than 1,000' N of Roxana Rd, a state road even then, and not mentioned in
> >
> >> >the deed. My guess at present is that Jinneys Addition stretched northward
> >>from
> >>
> >> >Pollys Branch and that Dennis Securit y belonging to Benjamin and David Hudson
> >>
> >> >was to the W/NW of it between Polly Branch and Jay Patch Swamp.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, bluelightning75@... wrote:
>
> I got the name of Buck Hill for Williamsville from a article in "The
> Sussex Post, Millsboro, Delaware May 8, 1991" Sussex Places The title of the
> article is "A Deer Path Over a Rise Led to the Name of Buck Hill"
> written by Dennis Forney
>
> Here is some of the article:
>
> "WILLIAMSVILLE - This collection of houses, former stores and community
> buildings strung along the western quarter of Rt 54 in southeastern Sussex
> County and used tobe known as Buck Hill.
> Kenneth Corby, whose family moved from dust bowl consitions in
> Saskatchewan, Canada in 1920 to Williamsville, knows the story:
> 'As flat as it is around here,' said Mr. Corby, 'there is a high spot
> that runs through town. They say that before there was any kind of town
> here, a deer path ran over that high spot. When the buck of the herd got to
> the top of the rise he would stop and look around and so the area came to be
> known as Buck Hill' ....."
>
> The article continues with more history of the area.
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 1/8/2011 2:59:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> marjea@... writes:
>
>
>
>
> > The "Delaware Genealogical Research Guide" by the DE Gen Soc lists on p9
> of the 2002 edition that Guinea Town was the name used for the
> Williamsville in Milford Hd., Kent Co. This publication does not list Buck Hill, or
> any early name for the Williamsville in Sussex. What is you source Joan for
> your notes? A gentle reminder to everyone, mistakes are so easy for all of
> us to make, so please check your sources before you write. Thanks.
>
> --- In _SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com_
> (mailto:SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com) , KENNETH BUNTING <kenbunting@> wrote:
> >
> > I remember people who referred to Williamsville as Guinea Town.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: "bluelightning75@" <bluelightning75@>
> > To: _SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com_
> (mailto:SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com)
> > Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 12:09:42 AM
> > Subject: Re: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> >
> > Â
> > Without looking at my notes, I thought Buck Ridge was an old name for
> > Williamsville.
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/7/2011 10:18:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > hudsonjlee@ writes:
> > Â
> > >I was just looking at Dennis Security again yesterday and a 50 acre
> parcel
> > >adjcent to its west, 'Buck Ridge' surveyed/patented (1749/1751) by
> Samuel
> > >Smallwood. The oddest thing is that he & a Thomas Smallwood also show
> up along
> > >with 'Ezekiah Hudson' in John Aydlot Hudson's 1752 Inventory of Estate;
> John A
> > >being the brother of Hezekiah Hudson who swapped Hudson's Addition for
> Dennis
> > >Security in 1762. I have wondered if John A had Hudson's Addition
> before
> > >Hezekiah though if it was close to Dennis Security I haven't made the
> > >connection.
> > >Â
> > >Anyone have anything on this Samuel Smallwood or Buck Ridge?
> > >Â
> > >Jason
> > >
> > >"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Â
> > >
> > ________________________________
> > To: _SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com_
> (mailto:SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com)
> > >From: kenbunting@
> > >Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:32:09 +0000
> > >Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> > >
> > >Â
> > >
> > >Solving the location of Jinneys Addtion is tantalizing. It would have
> to have
> > >been NE of present Selbyville. The deed mentions land flooded from the
> Isaiah,
> > >Zeno and Joseph Long mill. A study of the contours and elevations shows
> that the
> > >stream Sandy Branch would hardly have been affected more than 200'
> upstream from
> > >the pond. In any case the property above the junction of Sandy Branch
> and Polly
> > >Branch belonged to Samuel Truitt. However Polly Branch, which enters
> the former
> > >location of the pond from the NE, would have been flooded upstream for
> about
> > >2,500' to 3,000' or about 600' upstream from where Zoar Church now
> stands.
> > >However, the flooding even at most would have been no more than an acre
> wide and
> > >maybe 3 acres in length and is/was too swampy for agriculture. This
> area is no
> > >more than 1,000' N of Roxana Rd, a state road even then, and not
> mentioned in
> > >the deed. My guess at present is that Jinneys Addition stretched
> northward from
> > >Pollys Branch and that Dennis Securit y belonging to Benjamin and David
> Hudson
> > >was to the W/NW of it between Polly Branch and Jay Patch Swamp.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING <kenbunting@...> wrote:
>
> There appears to have been a long line of Williams by this name.  I think Mrs
> Pepper was probably referring to Ezekiel C Williams (first name always Ezekiel
> in the census) b abt 1825, a farmer whose address was Roxana but more than
> likely lived at what became Williamsville since the people of that area
> evidently used Roxana as their postoffice (as shown by comparing the Beers map
> to the census).  I would guess that he, like many rural merchants, ran a store
> out of his house and petitioned to have it designated a postoffice.  There was
> movement toward the end of the century to expand the postal system into rural
> areas.  I see no record for him after 1870.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: marjorie <marjea@...>
> To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 5:59:40 PM
> Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Re: Jinneys Addition
>
>  
> "Folklore of Sussex County" by the late Dorothy Pepper of Selbyville, p29
> "Wiliamsville,....was named for Ezekiel(sic) Williams.....Mr. Ezekiel owned the
> only house in the village at this time...there was need for a post office, so
> they decided to name it Williamsville Post Office. [note: we have found the name
> Ezekial Williams on several documents posted on this site--see his name in
> Database Index.]
>
>
> --- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING
> <kenbunting@> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Interesting.  I never knew there was a Williamsville in Kent Co.  Do you
> >suppose
> >
> > all the Williamsvilles used to be Guinea Towns?  At any rate the one we know
>
> > about was probably named for Williams Mill on Derickson Creek and the numerous
>
> > Williams in the area.  The mill and creek are marked on the Beers map, where
> >it
> >
> > is called Herring Creek.   The name of the stream may have been changed to
> > distinguish it from Herrring Creek in Worcester Co not far to the south.
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: marjorie <marjea@>
> > To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 2:50:01 PM
> > Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Re: Jinneys Addition
> >
> >  
> > The "Delaware Genealogical Research Guide" by the DE Gen Soc lists on p9 of the
> >
> > 2002 edition that Guinea Town was the name used for the Williamsville in
> >Milford
> >
> > Hd., Kent Co. This publication does not list Buck Ridge, or any early name for
>
> > the Williamsville in Sussex.
> >
> >
> > --- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING
> > <kenbunting@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I remember people who referred to Williamsville as Guinea Town.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: "bluelightning75@" <bluelightning75@>
> > > To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 12:09:42 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> > >
> > >  
> > > Without looking at my notes, I thought Buck Ridge was an old name for
> > > Williamsville.
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 1/7/2011 10:18:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > > hudsonjlee@ writes:
> > >  
> > > >I was just looking at Dennis Security again yesterday and a 50 acre parcel
> > > >adjcent to its west, 'Buck Ridge' surveyed/patented (1749/1751) by Samuel
> >
> > > >Smallwood. The oddest thing is that he & a Thomas Smallwood also show up
>
> > >along
> > >
> > > >with 'Ezekiah Hudson' in John Aydlot Hudson's 1752 Inventory of Estate; John
> >A
> >
> > >
> > > >being the brother of Hezekiah Hudson who swapped Hudson's Addition for
> >Dennis
> >
> > >
> > > >Security in 1762. I have wondered if John A had Hudson's Addition before
> > > >Hezekiah though if it was close to Dennis Security I haven't made the
> > > >connection.
> > > > 
> > > >Anyone have anything on this Samuel Smallwood or Buck Ridge?
> > > > 
> > > >Jason
> > > >
> > > >"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> > > >From: kenbunting@
> > > >Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:32:09 +0000
> > > >Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > >
> > > >Solving the location of Jinneys Addtion is tantalizing. It would have to
> >have
> >
> >
> > > >been NE of present Selbyville. The deed mentions land flooded from the
> >Isaiah,
> >
> > >
> > > >Zeno and Joseph Long mill. A study of the contours and elevations shows that
> >
> > >the
> > >
> > > >stream Sandy Branch would hardly have been affected more than 200' upstream
>
> > >from
> > >
> > > >the pond. In any case the property above the junction of Sandy Branch and
> > >Polly
> > >
> > > >Branch belonged to Samuel Truitt. However Polly Branch, which enters the
> > >former
> > >
> > > >location of the pond from the NE, would have been flooded upstream for about
> >
> > > >2,500' to 3,000' or about 600' upstream from where Zoar Church now stands.
> > > >However, the flooding even at most would have been no more than an acre wide
> >
> > >and
> > >
> > > >maybe 3 acres in length and is/was too swampy for agriculture. This area is
> >no
> >
> > >
> > > >more than 1,000' N of Roxana Rd, a state road even then, and not mentioned
> >in
> >
> >
> > > >the deed. My guess at present is that Jinneys Addition stretched northward
> > >from
> > >
> > > >Pollys Branch and that Dennis Securit y belonging to Benjamin and David
> >Hudson
> >
> > >
> > > >was to the W/NW of it between Polly Branch and Jay Patch Swamp.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING <kenbunting@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Interesting.  I never knew there was a Williamsville in Kent Co.  Do you suppose
> all the Williamsvilles used to be Guinea Towns?  At any rate the one we know
> about was probably named for Williams Mill on Derickson Creek and the numerous
> Williams in the area.  The mill and creek are marked on the Beers map, where it
> is called Herring Creek.   The name of the stream may have been changed to
> distinguish it from Herrring Creek in Worcester Co not far to the south.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: marjorie <marjea@...>
> To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 2:50:01 PM
> Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Re: Jinneys Addition
>
>  
> The "Delaware Genealogical Research Guide" by the DE Gen Soc lists on p9 of the
> 2002 edition that Guinea Town was the name used for the Williamsville in Milford
> Hd., Kent Co. This publication does not list Buck Ridge, or any early name for
> the Williamsville in Sussex.
>
>
> --- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING
> <kenbunting@> wrote:
> >
> > I remember people who referred to Williamsville as Guinea Town.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: "bluelightning75@" <bluelightning75@>
> > To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 12:09:42 AM
> > Subject: Re: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> >
> >  
> > Without looking at my notes, I thought Buck Ridge was an old name for
> > Williamsville.
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/7/2011 10:18:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > hudsonjlee@ writes:
> >  
> > >I was just looking at Dennis Security again yesterday and a 50 acre parcel
> > >adjcent to its west, 'Buck Ridge' surveyed/patented (1749/1751) by Samuel
> > >Smallwood. The oddest thing is that he & a Thomas Smallwood also show up
> >along
> >
> > >with 'Ezekiah Hudson' in John Aydlot Hudson's 1752 Inventory of Estate; John A
> >
> > >being the brother of Hezekiah Hudson who swapped Hudson's Addition for Dennis
> >
> > >Security in 1762. I have wondered if John A had Hudson's Addition before
> > >Hezekiah though if it was close to Dennis Security I haven't made the
> > >connection.
> > > 
> > >Anyone have anything on this Samuel Smallwood or Buck Ridge?
> > > 
> > >Jason
> > >
> > >"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > ________________________________
> > To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> > >From: kenbunting@
> > >Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:32:09 +0000
> > >Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > >Solving the location of Jinneys Addtion is tantalizing. It would have to have
>
> > >been NE of present Selbyville. The deed mentions land flooded from the Isaiah,
> >
> > >Zeno and Joseph Long mill. A study of the contours and elevations shows that
> >the
> >
> > >stream Sandy Branch would hardly have been affected more than 200' upstream
> >from
> >
> > >the pond. In any case the property above the junction of Sandy Branch and
> >Polly
> >
> > >Branch belonged to Samuel Truitt. However Polly Branch, which enters the
> >former
> >
> > >location of the pond from the NE, would have been flooded upstream for about
> > >2,500' to 3,000' or about 600' upstream from where Zoar Church now stands.
> > >However, the flooding even at most would have been no more than an acre wide
> >and
> >
> > >maybe 3 acres in length and is/was too swampy for agriculture. This area is no
> >
> > >more than 1,000' N of Roxana Rd, a state road even then, and not mentioned in
>
> > >the deed. My guess at present is that Jinneys Addition stretched northward
> >from
> >
> > >Pollys Branch and that Dennis Securit y belonging to Benjamin and David Hudson
> >
> > >was to the W/NW of it between Polly Branch and Jay Patch Swamp.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, "marjorie" <marjea@...> wrote:
>
> Joan, I am going to include here more of the article which you sent to me because it relates to the messaging Ken and I are doing re Williamsville.
> "..As there came to be more members of the Williams family living in the area than there were deer, it's only natural that the name Williamsville came into currency. The United States government made the name official on Dec. 29, 1875 when it named James B, Dickerson, a storekeeper in the community, postmaster at Williamsville.
> The post office remained active until Sept. 30, 1913 when service was discontinued. D. J. Murray was postmaster at the time. ...."
>
> I am puzzled by the newspaper statement that D.J. Murray was the postmaster when the P.O. closed as he (David James Murray) died in 1909 (buried in Red Men's Cemetery at Selbyville). Perhaps he is listed somewhere as the last postmaster. There perhaps was someone who served in that capacity but was not name the official postmaster from 1909-1913.
>
> There is a book that would probably answer this question ["Postal History of Delaware" by Henry Bounds published in 1938] but alas it has no preview on Google Books and in World Cat it is listed as held only by libraries far from me and is a Ref. book which would not be available on Interlibrary Loan.
>
> --- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, bluelightning75@ wrote:
> >
> > I got the name of Buck Hill for Williamsville from a article in "The
> > Sussex Post, Millsboro, Delaware May 8, 1991" Sussex Places The title of the
> > article is "A Deer Path Over a Rise Led to the Name of Buck Hill"
> > written by Dennis Forney
> >
> > Here is some of the article:
> >
> > "WILLIAMSVILLE - This collection of houses, former stores and community
> > buildings strung along the western quarter of Rt 54 in southeastern Sussex
> > County and used tobe known as Buck Hill.
> > Kenneth Corby, whose family moved from dust bowl consitions in
> > Saskatchewan, Canada in 1920 to Williamsville, knows the story:
> > 'As flat as it is around here,' said Mr. Corby, 'there is a high spot
> > that runs through town. They say that before there was any kind of town
> > here, a deer path ran over that high spot. When the buck of the herd got to
> > the top of the rise he would stop and look around and so the area came to be
> > known as Buck Hill' ....."
> >
> > The article continues with more history of the area.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/8/2011 2:59:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > marjea@ writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > The "Delaware Genealogical Research Guide" by the DE Gen Soc lists on p9
> > of the 2002 edition that Guinea Town was the name used for the
> > Williamsville in Milford Hd., Kent Co. This publication does not list Buck Hill, or
> > any early name for the Williamsville in Sussex. What is you source Joan for
> > your notes? A gentle reminder to everyone, mistakes are so easy for all of
> > us to make, so please check your sources before you write. Thanks.
> >
> > --- In _SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com_
> > (mailto:SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com) , KENNETH BUNTING <kenbunting@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I remember people who referred to Williamsville as Guinea Town.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: "bluelightning75@" <bluelightning75@>
> > > To: _SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com_
> > (mailto:SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com)
> > > Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 12:09:42 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> > >
> > > Â
> > > Without looking at my notes, I thought Buck Ridge was an old name for
> > > Williamsville.
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 1/7/2011 10:18:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > > hudsonjlee@ writes:
> > > Â
> > > >I was just looking at Dennis Security again yesterday and a 50 acre
> > parcel
> > > >adjcent to its west, 'Buck Ridge' surveyed/patented (1749/1751) by
> > Samuel
> > > >Smallwood. The oddest thing is that he & a Thomas Smallwood also show
> > up along
> > > >with 'Ezekiah Hudson' in John Aydlot Hudson's 1752 Inventory of Estate;
> > John A
> > > >being the brother of Hezekiah Hudson who swapped Hudson's Addition for
> > Dennis
> > > >Security in 1762. I have wondered if John A had Hudson's Addition
> > before
> > > >Hezekiah though if it was close to Dennis Security I haven't made the
> > > >connection.
> > > >Â
> > > >Anyone have anything on this Samuel Smallwood or Buck Ridge?
> > > >Â
> > > >Jason
> > > >
> > > >"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Â
> > > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > To: _SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com_
> > (mailto:SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com)
> > > >From: kenbunting@
> > > >Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:32:09 +0000
> > > >Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> > > >
> > > >Â
> > > >
> > > >Solving the location of Jinneys Addtion is tantalizing. It would have
> > to have
> > > >been NE of present Selbyville. The deed mentions land flooded from the
> > Isaiah,
> > > >Zeno and Joseph Long mill. A study of the contours and elevations shows
> > that the
> > > >stream Sandy Branch would hardly have been affected more than 200'
> > upstream from
> > > >the pond. In any case the property above the junction of Sandy Branch
> > and Polly
> > > >Branch belonged to Samuel Truitt. However Polly Branch, which enters
> > the former
> > > >location of the pond from the NE, would have been flooded upstream for
> > about
> > > >2,500' to 3,000' or about 600' upstream from where Zoar Church now
> > stands.
> > > >However, the flooding even at most would have been no more than an acre
> > wide and
> > > >maybe 3 acres in length and is/was too swampy for agriculture. This
> > area is no
> > > >more than 1,000' N of Roxana Rd, a state road even then, and not
> > mentioned in
> > > >the deed. My guess at present is that Jinneys Addition stretched
> > northward from
> > > >Pollys Branch and that Dennis Securit y belonging to Benjamin and David
> > Hudson
> > > >was to the W/NW of it between Polly Branch and Jay Patch Swamp.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING <kenbunting@...> wrote:
>
> Marjorie, when you have talked to elderly people about the past as long as I
> have, dating from people who were alive at the time of the Civil War until the
> present, they ARE the source.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: marjorie <marjea@...>
> To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sun, January 9, 2011 12:17:37 PM
> Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Re: Jinneys Addition--Williamsville and
> GuineaTown
>
>  
> Ken, Sources can be wrong (nevertheless, I insist we cite them on this site.)
> Maybe "Place Names in Delaware" is wrong about which Williamsville was called
> Guinea Town. So can you find a source supporting what you heard growing up?
> As a couple of other sourced messages state, Williamsville was not named for a
> mill but a man.
>
> Parting thought: sources, even if not perfect, can get us on the path to "the
> truth" and there is nothing like conflicting sources to lead to deeper research.
>
>
> --- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING
> <kenbunting@> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Interesting.  I never knew there was a Williamsville in Kent Co.  Do you
> >suppose
> >
> > all the Williamsvilles used to be Guinea Towns?  At any rate the one we know
>
> > about was probably named for Williams Mill on Derickson Creek and the numerous
>
> > Williams in the area.  The mill and creek are marked on the Beers map, where
> >it
> >
> > is called Herring Creek.   The name of the stream may have been changed to
> > distinguish it from Herrring Creek in Worcester Co not far to the south.
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: marjorie <marjea@>
> > To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 2:50:01 PM
> > Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Re: Jinneys Addition
> >
> >  
> > The "Delaware Genealogical Research Guide" by the DE Gen Soc lists on p9 of the
> >
> > 2002 edition that Guinea Town was the name used for the Williamsville in
> >Milford
> >
> > Hd., Kent Co. This publication does not list Buck Ridge, or any early name for
>
> > the Williamsville in Sussex.
> >
> >
> > --- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING
> > <kenbunting@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I remember people who referred to Williamsville as Guinea Town.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: "bluelightning75@" <bluelightning75@>
> > > To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 12:09:42 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> > >
> > >  
> > > Without looking at my notes, I thought Buck Ridge was an old name for
> > > Williamsville.
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 1/7/2011 10:18:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > > hudsonjlee@ writes:
> > >  
> > > >I was just looking at Dennis Security again yesterday and a 50 acre parcel
> > > >adjcent to its west, 'Buck Ridge' surveyed/patented (1749/1751) by Samuel
> >
> > > >Smallwood. The oddest thing is that he & a Thomas Smallwood also show up
>
> > >along
> > >
> > > >with 'Ezekiah Hudson' in John Aydlot Hudson's 1752 Inventory of Estate; John
> >A
> >
> > >
> > > >being the brother of Hezekiah Hudson who swapped Hudson's Addition for
> >Dennis
> >
> > >
> > > >Security in 1762. I have wondered if John A had Hudson's Addition before
> > > >Hezekiah though if it was close to Dennis Security I haven't made the
> > > >connection.
> > > > 
> > > >Anyone have anything on this Samuel Smallwood or Buck Ridge?
> > > > 
> > > >Jason
> > > >
> > > >"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> > > >From: kenbunting@
> > > >Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 01:32:09 +0000
> > > >Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Jinneys Addition
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > >
> > > >Solving the location of Jinneys Addtion is tantalizing. It would have to
> >have
> >
> >
> > > >been NE of present Selbyville. The deed mentions land flooded from the
> >Isaiah,
> >
> > >
> > > >Zeno and Joseph Long mill. A study of the contours and elevations shows that
> >
> > >the
> > >
> > > >stream Sandy Branch would hardly have been affected more than 200' upstream
>
> > >from
> > >
> > > >the pond. In any case the property above the junction of Sandy Branch and
> > >Polly
> > >
> > > >Branch belonged to Samuel Truitt. However Polly Branch, which enters the
> > >former
> > >
> > > >location of the pond from the NE, would have been flooded upstream for about
> >
> > > >2,500' to 3,000' or about 600' upstream from where Zoar Church now stands.
> > > >However, the flooding even at most would have been no more than an acre wide
> >
> > >and
> > >
> > > >maybe 3 acres in length and is/was too swampy for agriculture. This area is
> >no
> >
> > >
> > > >more than 1,000' N of Roxana Rd, a state road even then, and not mentioned
> >in
> >
> >
> > > >the deed. My guess at present is that Jinneys Addition stretched northward
> > >from
> > >
> > > >Pollys Branch and that Dennis Securit y belonging to Benjamin and David
> >Hudson
> >
> > >
> > > >was to the W/NW of it between Polly Branch and Jay Patch Swamp.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:45 PM, tuxedo1234@bellsouth.net <tuxedo1234@bellsouth.net> wrote:

 

I have/had a copy of this book. My father was postmaster in Lewes and I inherited his copy. Thing is, I can not find it right now. It is not in the bookcase it is supposed to be in. Since it appears I am to be snowed in at home in Atlanta tomorrow, I will make a thorough search. I will post again when I find it.

Pat Secrest

--
Marjorie
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."~ Henry Van Dyke

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, "kenbunting@..." <kenbunting@...> wrote:
>
>
> Interesting that Sampson Selby for whom Selbyville is said to have been named is listed as farmer in the 1850 census, whereas Josiah who is said to have been the first postmaster is listed as merchant. This latter makes sense if you consider that postoffices were often located in stores. So why would Sampson have gone to Phila to lay in supplies for "his" store?
> Even more interesting is that in the 1860 census they had both moved to Bishopville, from which town they are said to have originated.
>
> Other than the census, you may find the other information in just about any history of Selbyville on the web. I don't have a copy of Scharf.
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, "kenbunting@..." <kenbunting@...> wrote:
>
>
> Interesting that Sampson Selby for whom Selbyville is said to have been named is listed as farmer in the 1850 census, whereas Josiah who is said to have been the first postmaster is listed as merchant. This latter makes sense if you consider that postoffices were often located in stores. So why would Sampson have gone to Phila to lay in supplies for "his" store?
> Even more interesting is that in the 1860 census they had both moved to Bishopville, from which town they are said to have originated.
>
> Other than the census, you may find the other information in just about any history of Selbyville on the web. I don't have a copy of Scharf.
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, bluelightning75@... wrote:
>
> In the Thomson's Mercantile 1851-1852, the store is listed as Sampson and
> son. In 1850 Sampson would have been 59 years old. Do you think it possible
> that he may have turned over most of the store duties to his son Josiah by
> this time?
> As far as them moving back to Bishopville, Sampson's grave is less than 2
> miles from the center of Selbyville and is only 2/10 of a mile from the
> old stage coach road that leads to Selbyville.
>
> Wouldn't Sampson had to have lived in Baltimore Hundred in 1849 when the
> governor appointed him Justice of the Peace & Notary & Tabellion Public?
> According to the book Governor's Registor 1674-1851, he was appointed on
> February 15, 1849.
>
>
>
> In a message dated 1/9/2011 9:13:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> kenbunting@... writes:
>
>
>
>
>
> Interesting that Sampson Selby for whom Selbyville is said to have been
> named is listed as farmer in the 1850 census, whereas Josiah who is said to
> have been the first postmaster is listed as merchant. This latter makes sense
> if you consider that postoffices were often located in stores. So why
> would Sampson have gone to Phila to lay in supplies for "his" store?
> Even more interesting is that in the 1860 census they had both moved to
> Bishopville, from which town they are said to have originated.
>
> Other than the census, you may find the other information in just about
> any history of Selbyville on the web. I don't have a copy of Scharf.
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, "tuxedo1234@..." <tuxedo1234@...> wrote:
>
> I have found this book. It is 121 pages long and not as informative as I thought it might be because it is not indexed. It has an narrative history portion, an alphabetical list of postoffices and a chronological list of postoffices.
> 1)On pages 37 and 38 there is information about the establishment of the postoffice in Selbyville on Nov. 7, 1848.It states that Josiah
> Shelby was the first postmaster. The same info is in the alphabetical list of postoffices. The chronological list has the information about the date of establishment.
> 2)There were two Williamville's, one in Sussex County and one in Kent County. I could not find the Sussex one in the narrative part of the book but it is listed in the alphabetical list (p. 106) and in the chronological list. The listing in the alphabetical section reads as follows:
>
> WILLIAMSVILLE--Sussex Co. (Formerly Tunnel's Store)
> Estab.--Dec. 29, 1875, James B. Dickerson, Postmaster
> Disc.--Sept. 30, 1913, D. J. Murray, Postmaster
>
> I would be happy to show this book to anyone but am reluctant to send it anywhere since it is so rare and has an autograph addressed to my father. I am going to research it further to see if there is more information about the two postoffices. I am also going to look in my father's papers to see if there is any more information there. He was a real history buff and very proud of being postmaster in Lewes.
>

--- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, KENNETH BUNTING <kenbunting@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> These are just a sampling of links mentioning Selbyville history.  Type
> SELBYVILLE on your search engine bar and you will find more. 
>
>     Profile for Selbyville DE
>     Wikipedia
>     Selbyville Profile and Resource Guide
>     Jerry Mueller Real Estate
>     Podunk: Selbyville DE Town Info   (this one mentions Josiah Selby as
> postmaster)
>     Selbyville DE - Sussex Co Online
>
> I don't think we would call any of these authoritative.  And they all seem to
> copy each other.
>
>
>    
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: marjorie <marjea@...>
> To: SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 12:39:39 AM
> Subject: [SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy] Re: Sam(p)son and Josiah Selby
>
>  
>
> The census is a source which is known to have wrong information. Perhaps Sampson
> was a farmer and a storekeeper as was William S. McCabe (D.J.Long's newspaper
> account).
>
> Could you give us the links for the histories of Selbyville you refer to?
> Scharf is online. I just added the link. Also everything he wrote about
> Selbyville is on this site in Files: Books, Scharf on Selbyville. Scharf is also
> a source that is know to have many errors.
> --- In SelbyvilleHistoryAndGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, "kenbunting@"
> <kenbunting@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Interesting that Sampson Selby for whom Selbyville is said to have been named
> >is listed as farmer in the 1850 census, whereas Josiah who is said to have been
> >the first postmaster is listed as merchant. This latter makes sense if you
> >consider that postoffices were often located in stores. So why would Sampson
> >have gone to Phila to lay in supplies for "his" store?
> > Even more interesting is that in the 1860 census they had both moved to
> >Bishopville, from which town they are said to have originated.
> >
> > Other than the census, you may find the other information in just about any
> >history of Selbyville on the web. I don't have a copy of Scharf.
> >
>