Blades, Chance & Marshall of Maryland's Eastern Shore

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Online database surname index, Updated 1 Feb 2004
The emphasis of this page are the Blades and Chance families of Maryland's Eastern Shore. The database, however, contains quite a few surnames besides Blades, including Briley, Burns, Burrows, Chaplain, Coffin, Fairbank, Grace, Leonard, Lloyd, Marshall, & Rolle, among others.

Source and Reference number index, Updated Friday, 29-Jun-2007 16:12:00 CDT

Early Evidence

Early Evidence of the Eastern Shore Chance Family, updated Sunday, 24-Feb-2008 22:31:29 CST
Early Evidence of the Eastern Shore Blades Family, updated 29 Nov 1999

Family Bibles

Thomas Blades of E. family Bible, ca. 1839, Talbot Co., MD
Samuel E. Marshall Family Bible, St. Michaels, Talbot Co., Maryland
George R. Caulk Family Bible, St. Michaels, Talbot Co., Maryland
Chance-Cannon Family Bible, Queen Anne's Co., MD & Philadelphia, PA
Chance-Walls Family Bible, Kent Co. & Queen Anne's Co., MD
Atwell Chance Family Bible, Caroline Co., MD
Nancy Edgar & John Fairbank Family Bible, St. Michaels, Talbot Co., Maryland
James Titus Morris Family Bible, St. Michaels, Talbot Co., Maryland
William F. Morris Family Bible, St. Michaels, Talbot Co., Maryland
James Redman Family Bible, Easton, Talbot Co., Maryland

Marriages

Eastern Shore Blades marriages, updated 27 June 2007

Wills

The will of Edmund Blades, Sr., ca 1754, Talbot Co., MD
The will of John Blades, Sr., 1767, Worcester Co., MD
The will of Joseph Blades, 1770, Dorchester Co., MD
The 1st inventory of John Blades, ca. 1773, Talbot Co., MD
The 2nd inventory of John Blades, ca. 1773, Talbot Co., MD
The will of Edmund Blades, Jr., ca 1807, Talbot Co., MD
The will of Thomas Blades of E., 1903, Talbot Co., MD
The will of Susan Kirby Blades, 1916, Talbot Co., MD
The Will of William Marshall, 1687-1740
The Will of Boon Chance, ca 1712-1771
The Will of Richard Chance, 1680-1747
The Will of Joseph Marshall, ca 1750-1824

Obituaries

The obituary of Thomas Blades of E., 1903, Talbot Co., MD
The obituary of Susan E. Blades, 1916, Talbot Co., MD
The obituary of Elizabeth Frances Blades, 1920, Talbot Co., MD
The obituary of Mary Louisa Blades Marshall, 1922, Talbot Co., MD
The obituary of Curtis Blades Sewell, 1942, Talbot Co., MD
The obituary of Samuel M. Blades, 1952, Talbot Co., MD

The Cutting Edge

The Blades at War, 1748 - present, updated 24 Jan 2001

Census Records

Blades in the 1850 census, updated 10 Feb 2001

Cemeteries

Chance tombstones in Sudlersville Cm., Sudlersville, Queen Anne's Co., MD (PDF)
Blades tombstones in East Mount Cm., Greenville, Hunt Co., TX (PDF)

Other Information

The Sardis Subscription Quilt of St. Luke's United Methodist Church
The Mysterious Ancestral Pins

Resources

FORUMS
Genforum's Blades Family Forum
Genforum's Chance Family Forum
Genforum's Marshall Family Forum

BLADES MAILING LIST
RootsWeb BLADES Surname List - to subscribe, send email containing the word "SUBSCRIBE" to BLADES-L-request@rootsweb.com

RESEARCHERS
Betty Seymour, descendant of Fatima Marshall and Thomas Blades of E., Talbot Co., MD
Granville Blades, descendant of Garrison Blades, Talbot Co., MD
Lynn Smith, descendant of Julia A. Blades and William Gardner, Queen Anne's Co, MD
Marvin E. Owen, wife is a descendant of Joseph Blades and Mary Barrow, Ascension Parish, LA
Mona Bray-Blades, descendant of Frank and Bertha Blades, Madison Co., IN
Peter Blades, proprietor of the Blades & Rackham web site and Listowner of the RootsWeb BLADES Surname List
Patti Schneider, descendant of John Blades and Eleanor Stuckey, Indiana
Sharon Shacochis, descendant of Emily F. Blades and James Jones, Talbot Co., MD
Susan Chance-Rainwater, descendant of Fatima Marshall and Thomas Blades of E., Talbot Co., MD
T. J. Johnson, descendant of Benjamin Henderson Blades, MD
Kathy Chance Morlan, descendant of Nathan Chance, Caroline Co., MD

Our Research Philosophy

Our family research has been done with an emphasis on facts and data.
We try to support every point in our genealogy with a verifiable data.
We differentiate between conjecture and fact.
Though the contributions of others have been enormously helpful in our research, we always try to go back to the original sources.
We test conclusions against the facts and discard them when they do not measure up.
We do whole family genealogy as opposed to single name or straight line genealogy.
If family myths and legends are disproved in the process of research, well, that's genealogy.
We view genealogy as a two way street. Don't ask for information unless you are willing to give in return.
We do not list minor children in our online database, and ask that if you send a gedcom or other file, that you filter out all minors. This is for their safety and our liability. If you don't know how to do this, ask.
Finally, despite all of this, we still make mistakes.

PLEASE NOTE
Due to the limited time I have available to answer personal email, I no longer respond to queries about the Blades and Chance families outside the geographic area of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Such queries are better made at the Blades Family Genealogy Forum and Chance Family Genealogy Forum on Genforum.

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