Edmund Cantwell

New Castle County · dedicated 1932 · 3195 South Dupont Highway, Odessa · location approximate

Near this spot was the home of Edmund Cantwell, first sheriff of New Castle County 1672. Surveyor of many early grants. Here John Moll and Ephraim Herman, deputies of William Penn, met October 28, 1682, taking possession of the lower counties, now Kent and Sussex, by Act of Seisin, receiving "turf and twig water and soyle in part of all."

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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