Talbot’s Fort

New Castle County · dedicated 1933 · 401 Eagle Run, Newark

Colonel George Talbot, cousin of Lord Baltimore, in defiance of William Penn’s claim to Delaware, erected a fort nearby, 1684, on land of the Widow Ogle. Talbot dispossessed settlers between here and Iron Hill who refused to acknowledge Baltimore as proprietor. Fort garrisoned about two years boundary settled by agreement, 1760; Surveyed by Mason and Dixon, 1763; Confirmed by proclamation of the Provincial Governor, John Penn, 1775.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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