SPALDING AND DAWSON FAMILIES 
GENERATIONAL LINKS TO THE PASTGenealogy is legend, lore and myth about ancestral  journeys: a quest of curiosity which finds as much fulfillment in seeking as in attaining. Genealogical research reveals
families consumed with survival, defiant in the face of adversity when
opposing oppression, yet strong in hope and communion. Our Spalding and Dawson
ancestors were sustained by three river cultures: the Potomac River in St.
Mary's County, the Nanticoke River in Dorchester County on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland,
and that "Highway to the West," the Ohio River, which divides North 
from South.  
This is the story
of a remarkable people: the Spaldings of East Anglia and the Dawsons of 
Yorkshire, England. Over three hundred & fifty years in America (1657), our
ancestors formed and fortified unbreakable links to a distant past. We, their
descendants, revere their memory and honor their sacrifice.  To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die, but to 
bequeath a timeless testament to those we love and cherish. 
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Spalding - Maddox - Harris - Redden - Kellam - Robins - Melvin - Norris - Wells
of Maryland - Dawson of Maryland/Delaware - Herbert of New Jersey &
Virginia - Strawn/Buckman of Pennsylvania - Kees of Virginia & Pennsylvania
are our mid-Atlantic colonial ancestors. Most migrated through western
Pennsylvania. At Fort Pitt, they traveled by flat boat down the Ohio River to
Limestone, Ky. They spread out in the Ohio River Valley: Dawson in Ohio, the
others in Kentucky. Aaron Spaulding was in Campbell County Ky. by 1805 when he
married Hannah Herbert, the daughter of Rev. Josiah Herbert. Isaac J. Dawson
was in Brown County, Ohio, by 1820. The origin of both Spalding and Dawson was
Maryland: Spalding of St. Mary's County on the Western-shore and Dawson of
Talbot-Dorchester County on the Eastern-shore.   
SPALDING -  SHERCLIFFE                   HERBERT (updated)                    
HERBERT - WINTER - GROVER      HELM  
SPILMAN -
DeCOURSEY       
STRAWN
- BUCKMAN           MADDOX (updated) - 
HARRIS           
DAWSON - KELLAM
JUMPREDDEN - MELVIN              ROBINS - LITTLETON
NORRIS - WELLS     
Robert Clarke: Surveyor-General
of MarylandSpaulding Family Memories    
Dawsons Through the Years   
Manors of Maryland (Genesar update)  
Churches of Maryland and