Beginnings -- William Claiborne -- Colonel Edmund Scarburgh -- The Picaroons -- The Pocomoke River -- The Little and the Big Annemessex -- The Manokin -- The Wicomico -- The Nanticoke River -- The Dorchester marshes -- The Little Choptank -- The Choptank River -- The town of Oxford -- The Tred Avon River -- St. Michaels -- The Miles River -- The Lloyds of Wye -- The Wye River -- The Chester River -- Chestertown -- The Sassafras and Bohemia rivers.