Editing Talbot County, Maryland (section)

===Poplar Island===
[[File:Poplar Island.jpg|thumb|Poplar Island]]
Popeley Island (later [[Poplar Island (Chesapeake Bay)|Poplar Island]]) was one of Talbot County's first islands that was given a name and location on a map. Popeley Island was given its name by Captain William Claibourne after Lt. Richard Popeley. Popeley Island was the first land to be settled in 1632 by Captain William Claibourne. The first fields were planted in Talbot County on Popeley Island in 1634, and in 1635 Claibourne granted the whole island to his cousin Richard Thompson.<ref name="Preston 1983 6">{{Cite book |last=Preston |first=Dickerson |title=Talbot County: A History |publisher=Tidewater Publishing |year=1983 |isbn=0-87033-305-4 |location=Centreville, MD |page=6}}</ref> During the summer of 1637, while Thompson was off the island on an expedition, [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], the [[Nanticoke people|Nanticoke]] tribe, massacred Thompson's whole family and workers.<ref name="Preston 1983 6" /> Through the 1700s the name changed spelling from Popeleys to Poples to Poplar. Thompson went back to Virginia and never came back to his island. In 1654 Thomas Hawkins acquired Poplar Island and sold half to Seth Foster, [[Tilghman Island]]’s founding father. Poplar Island is only accessible by boat today and is currently being rebuilt by the Army Corps of Engineers.