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Place Name
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Eastern Bay
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Place Status (Type)
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bay
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Location
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Talbot County, Maryland (MD), United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Eastern Bay
, Talbot co., E Md., irregular Chesapeake Bay inlet
(c.5 mi. long, 7 mi. wide), indenting the Eastern Shore
to S and E of Kent Isl.; connected with Chester R. (N) by narrow
channel. Miles R., Wye R., other estuaries enter it. Bennett's Point,
at the entrance to the Wye, was the home of Richard Bennett, son of
Md.'s one Puritan governor and father of another Richard, the richest
American of his time. Oystering, fishing.
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