Bill and I traveled from Onancock, VA, to Tangier Island to retrace the waterway taken by Elizabeth's Crockett ancestors from the early 1700s to, well since we went, today. After Leah Crockett married Stephen Hopkins (of Smith Island) in 1720 at St. George's Episcopal Church in Pungoteague, VA, they lived on the islands and moved to Onancock about 1800. Their son, Stephen, established the Hopkins & Bros store in 1845, but had had a store of sorts on his wharf on North Branch early on. Here is a link to our pictures
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What do you do on Tangier? Eat a lot of fried food--clam fritters, crab cakes and corn pudding at Hilda Crocketts a must--ride bikes, slap at black flies on the beach and mosquitoes everywhere else, and relax. Delightful--oh and the restaruants close very early and that's the end of the day.
The watermen are up at 2:30 am to go harvest crabs, softshell crabs, and clams, which the take to Crisfield for shipment to New York, Baltimore, and other points on the East Coast. Then they come home. During the day they check their sheding boxes (where they keep the softshells until ready for market) several times a day. They eat dinner about 4:30 pm or 5 pm then to bed.
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