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Choptank may refer to a location in the eastern United States or a former Native American tribe:
- Choptank people
- Choptank, Maryland, Caroline County
- Choptank Mills, Delaware, Kent County
- Choptank (Middletown, Delaware), listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in southern New Castle County, Delaware
- Choptank Electric Cooperative, a not-for-profit energy organization
- Choptank River, a tributary of Chesapeake Bay
- Choptank River Fishing Pier, on the Choptank River
- Choptank River Light, a lighthouse near Oxford, Maryland
Choptank, also known as the J. Clayton Farm, is a historic home located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1850, and is a three-story, five-by-two bay, timber frame structure on a brick foundation. It has a low-hipped roof. Also on the property are a contributing large barn, corn crib, and shed.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Usage examples of "choptank".
He even crossed to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake to visit a Quaker meeting on the Choptank before winter set in, and he describes the immense migration of wild pigeons at that season, and the ducks which flew so low and were so tame that the colonists knocked them down with sticks.
It was a grand canoe trip--a weird procession of tawny, black-haired fellows swinging their paddles day after day, with their freight of ancient bones, leaving the sunny fishing grounds of the Nanticoke and the Choptank to seek a refuge from the detested white man in the cold mountains of Pennsylvania.
This monosyllabic criminal from the fens of London became the first white man to appreciate the glory of what lay hidden among the backwaters north of the Choptank: the dozen rivers, the score of creeks, the hundred hidden coves.
Hiram kept a forefinger in the old booklet to mind his place, and as he stared out across the Choptank it became not merely the brown river he had always known but a dividing line between the Deep South, where slavery had flourished, and the modified slaveholding area from which escape had been possible, and the role played by Eden and her husband became clear: They were a lighthouse in the night.
Secretly they were aware that aspects of Simon’s history existed in court records—his acquisition of land, his purchase of slaves, his argument over the ownership of fields along the Choptank, and the manner in which he purchased from Fithians the great estate on the Rappahannock—but they preferred to think that these matters would remain hidden.
As the trim schooner moved down the Choptank, a barge moved out from Devon Island containing Jane Fithian Steed, her infant daughter and her husband.
Steed, elated by the showing of the Eden and pleased to have been accepted into Choptank life so quickly, delivered the final judgment on the race: All things considered, we gained a moral victory.
At the Quarterly Meeting in December 1777 the Quakers of the Choptank became the first important religious group in the south to outlaw slavery among its members.
At dusk he would come out of hiding and sail through the night, and in this cautious way approached the Choptank.
But he felt young, for his oldest son had left the refuge one summer’s day to paddle back to the village, and when he returned he brought with him the sister of Matapank, the werowance, and soon Pentaquod had a grandson, longer and sturdier than the usual Choptank baby.