Maryland

November 16, 2006

We arrived in Elkton on Wednesday night and looked forward to Thursday in the small town which is the county seat of Cecil County where John Rock and Sarah Everette were married in 1795 before leaving for Hart County, Kentucky. He is the Rock family connection back to this area of the country. The historical society library didn't open until ten so we drove around the downtown area, had coffee at a new coffee shop named Judy's Jar. Brightly decorated elk statues are posted araound the city in strategic locations. We learned that it is a money raising campaign for the city's art and history society.

The people in the historical society were very helpful and pulled out lots of books with a "Rock" name. Evidently there are no Rocks living in the county now but in the 1700's there were some that were quite prominent. They were Protestant and had denied publicly the teachings of the Catholic Church. Clayton wasn't able to make the link between John Rock and the ones he found at the library but he gleaned a lot of information.

We had lunch at a cafe called Baglemania and continued with the research until four when the library closed. It continued to rain today and late afternoon there were high winds in addition to the heavy rainfall. There are reports of downed electric wires in some surrounding counties here in Maryland and in Pennslyvania (Cecil County borders PA).

We look forward to a slow day tomorrow as we head for Baltimore and the weekend with relatives.