Origins
in England
NOTTINGHAM ENGLAND 1530
WILNA MARYLAND 2000
Read their letters from the 1850s written to Samuel K. J. Greenfield. Discover how they felt about love and marriage, family conflicts, religion, farming and life and death. Samuel died in 1861 eight months before the birth of his son, Samuel Beauregard Greenfield, shown in the background picture with his wife, Willana Black and daughter Cassie.
Discover what life was like for the first settlers in Baltimore County at Spesutie Creek and later in the Long Green Valley. Find how the family's history and that of Methodism in the area are intertwined.
See if you are related to any of the other families including: Black, Cord, Coulter, Emmel, Hatton, King, Portz, Sessa, Snodgrass, Truman and Zeigler.
