Editing Talbot County, Maryland (section)

==History==
The founding date of Talbot County is not known. It existed by February 12, 1661, when a [[writ]] was issued to its [[sheriff]]. It was initially divided into nine [[Hundred (county division)|hundreds]] and three parishes: St. Paul's, St. Peter's and St. Michael's.<ref>Percy G. Skirven, ''The First Parishes of the Province of Maryland'' (Baltimore: the Norman, Remington Company, 1923) p. 146.</ref>

In 1667, the first Meeting of Commissions was held in a home on the Skipton Creek near the town of York. The town of York was vacated once the courthouse was planned to be built on Armstrongs Old Field in 1709 near Pitts' Bridge. The new courthouse designated because York was too far north in the county once [[Queen Anne's County, Maryland|Queen Anne's County]] received their charter and was lopped off of Talbot County.<ref name="Ludlow-p16">Cynthia Beatty Ludlow, "Historic Easton", 1976, page 16</ref> Pitts' Bridge was just north of the Quaker Meeting House, but most importantly, it faced the Indian trail (Washington Street – Easton).

After the [[American Revolutionary War]] in 1786, Act to Assemble in Annapolis appointed John Needles to survey and "to erect a town in Talbot County to be called Talbottown"—laying out a town around then existing court house with 118 number parcels of land and designated streets, alleys and lanes. Talbottown was to be known as the county seat of [[Easton, Maryland|Easton]].<ref name="Ludlow-p16" /> Another act was passed in 1789 to build a larger courthouse on the site of the old one. This court house was completed in 1794 and today parts of it still stand today inside of the present court house.<ref name="Ludlow-p16" />

Lt. Col. [[Tench Tilghman]], Gen. [[George Washington]]'s [[aide-de-camp]], was born on Fausley in Talbot County on December 25, 1744. He died on April 18, 1786, and is buried in [[Oxford, Maryland]].<ref>Norman Harrington "Easton Alboum". Easton, Maryland 1986. page 30</ref>

[[Founding Fathers of the United States|Founding Father]] [[John Dickinson (delegate)|John Dickinson]] was born in [[Trappe, Maryland|Trappe]] in 1732. The [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]] [[Frederick Douglass]] was born into [[Slavery in the United States|slavery]] near [[Tuckahoe Creek]] around 1817 or 1818.

The first established hospital on the Eastern Shore was near McDaniel at Dr. Absolom Thompson farm, the old Mary's Delight Farm.<ref>''[[The Star Democrat|The Easton Star Democrat]]'', December 30, 1949</ref>

The county has [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Talbot County, Maryland|a number of properties]] on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref>

===Great Seal symbology===
The Great Seal of Talbot County was adopted on July 26, 1966. The design reflects the Talbot coat of arms, chosen due to the county's namesake, Grace Talbot, daughter of [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]].
The seal features a [[rampant]] lion [[gules]] on a silver shield. Its background is [[purpure]], a color assigned to Talbot County in 1694 by Maryland's royal governor, Sir [[Francis Nicholson]]. It bears the inscription, "The Great Seal of Talbot County Maryland" along the edge. Below the lion is the [[Latin]] motto, ''Tempus Praeteritum Et Futurum'', meaning "Times, Past and Future."<ref name="seal" />