Reverend Jeremiah Miller was jailed in Easton.
He prophecied the Lord would shake the town that day.
After he was driven out, the church went down in that part of Maryland,
until Bishop Wayman returned and set it right.
Continue reading After these Times of Trouble, the Church went down
They said, Rev. Noah C.W. Cannon is a dangerous man.
He preached at Denton on Sunday.
And would preach at my father’s
out in the country that week.
He was admired by all who heard him.
But that night came the constable with other men from town
and arrested him for the murder of women and children.
Rev. Cannon told the Justice, Look at me. I am not that mulatto.
(For he was a very dark man.)
And the Justice released him.
But he did not sleep well that night, thinking
it was time to get out of that place. Continue reading Do you still see white horses over in those dark woods?
Near the place I was born,
Tuckahoe,
I dedicated Deep Branch Chapel.
Then I hastened and got off.
It’s 1874. Here.
The Legacy of A.M.E Bishop A.W. Wayman
of Tuckahoe Neck, Caroline County, Maryland
Continue reading Deep Branch Chapel, near the place I was born
Bishop Wayman,
Do you come from Tuckahoe?
Are you a son of Francis Wayman of Caroline County?
I am. And now tell me,
Did Charlie and Button pull your wagon all the way
from Tuckahoe to Ohio?
Continue reading Long road back to Tuckahoe
They wrote:
His color was black.
His features were strong.
His voice was commanding, deep.
His white friends in Denton
always came out
to hear him preach.
Like-wise Generals, Governors, and Presidents.
Born on the Tuckahoe, 1821
(before Fred Bailey
across the river
escaped),
Bishop Wayman died last week.
The Legacy of A.M.E Bishop A.W. Wayman
of Tuckahoe Neck, Caroline County, Maryland
Learn more:
Do you still see white horses over in those dark woods? — 1830
After these Times of Trouble, the Church went down — 1830-1868
I walked 16 miles home to Tuckahoe — 1848
News went back to Caroline that I was shot and killed — 1866
Long road back to Tuckahoe — 1870s
Deep Branch Chapel, near the place I was born — 1874
Satellite imagery and 1875 map of Caroline County, Md., were used to locate the site of an African-American church near an upper crossing of the Choptank River.
I recently digitized a paper copy of the map of Caroline County, Maryland, which was drawn by John B. Isler in 1875. While geo-rectifying sections of the map (stretching and warping the images to match the “ground truth”), I noticed a building marked “Col Ch” on the road east from Goldsboro, at the crossing of a branch of the upper Choptank River.
Continue reading “Colored Church” at the Upper Choptank River Crossing