Editing Somerset County, Maryland (section)

===Early county leaders===
The new settlers established a government for Somerset County, the eighth in the [[Province of Maryland]]; it was formed from the southern part of [[Kent County, Maryland|Kent County]]. This had been organized in 1642 as the Province's second county, encompassing the entire Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. Horsey was selected to sit on the first county court, which administered the new county. [[Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore|Charles Calvert]] appointed Stephen Horsey on December 11, 1665, along with [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hsch1964&id=I74 Captain William Thorne], William Stevens, George Johnson, John Winder, James Jones and Henry Boston.<ref>Torrence, pp. 61–62</ref> Horsey sat as a regular member of the Somerset County Court through the winter and spring of 1666. He traveled across the Chesapeake Bay in 1665 with Captain Thorne to meet with Charles Calvert, who swore them in as county commissioners. Horsey established himself as a nonconformist and someone willing to stand up for his beliefs.<ref>Torrence, pp.300–301</ref>

[[File:Somerset County, MD 1669.jpg|thumb|Map of The Hundreds of Somerset County, Maryland as of 1669. Note the boundaries overlap with Sussex, Delaware and Accomac counties, Virginia.]]