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The Choptank (or Ababco [2]) were an Algonquian-speaking Native American people that historically lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland on the Delmarva Peninsula. They occupied an area along the lower Choptank River basin, [ 3 ] which included parts of present-day Talbot , Dorchester and Caroline counties. [ 4 ]
Choptank is an unincorporated town and census-designated place on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. [3] As of the 2010 census it had a population of 129. [ 4 ]
Choptank may refer to a location in the eastern United States or a former Native American tribe: Choptank people; Communities. Choptank, Maryland, Caroline County; Choptank Mills, Delaware, Kent County; Other. Choptank (Middletown, Delaware), listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in southern New Castle County, Delaware
The Choptank people lived in modern-day Talbot, Dorchester, and Caroline counties, including the town of Cambridge. They were the only Indigenous group granted a reservation by the Maryland colony, which they lived on until the land was sold to developers by the government in 1822. [17]
The Choptank River is a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay and the largest river on the Delmarva Peninsula. [4] Running for 71 miles (114 km), [5] it rises in Kent County, Delaware, runs through Caroline County, Maryland, and forms much of the border between Talbot County, Maryland, on the north, and Caroline County and Dorchester County on the east and south.
Choptank River The Choptank Formation is a geologic formation in Virginia and Maryland . It preserves fossils dating from the Miocene epoch of the Neogene period .
Choptank - local tradition has it that the name choptank was a crude Anglicisation of the Algonquian name for the river, probably in the Nanticoke language. There was also a group of Algonquians called the Choptank tribe. [4] Conowingo - Conowingo is a Susquehannock word for "at the rapids". [5]
In the early summer of 1742, members of the Nanticoke, Shawnee, and Choptank tribes, wanted to avenge themselves against the English colonists. [4] The tribes decided to meet on Winnesoccum Island in the middle of the Pocomoke Swamp located in Maryland. Chief Robin Hood, Hopping Sam, Simon Alsechqueck, and Messowan gathered their people to meet ...