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title: Further googling for stavely
date: 2006-09-13 06:55:00.00 -8
tags: posts 
categories: geeky
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stavely site:en.wikipedia.org reveals this from the article on the [Mean Center of US Population](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_U.S._population):


> In the first census, 1790, the mean population center was located a little under 8 miles (13 km) west, and slightly north, of Chestertown, Maryland, a few feet from a small branch of the Chesapeake Bay called Stavely Pond. Oddly enough, the spot is on the "Great Oak Mannour" property patented to Josiah Fendall in the mid-1600s, one of Kent County's oldest and largest land grants. The patent was for 2000 acres (8 km²). Fendall was an early governor of the colony.


Very interesting. The branch of the Stavely family from which I am descended was in PA by then I think but had cousins in Baltimore and I assume the eastern shore near there. Hooray worthless trivia.