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The historic Revells Neck area
of the Manokin River has been inhabited since 1651.
Randal
Revell, one of
Somerset County's first three commissioners, lived here on his property called
"Double Purchase," but there is no trace of his house incorporated
into Clifton. It was in this vicinity that the early settlers outwitted
forty armed riders-in-the-night from Virginia led by Edmund Scarburgh who were
trying to annex this part of Maryland to Virginia.
Clifton is built on the site of
the 20 acre
town of Somersettown, a designated port of entry, which existed from 1669-1673. The county courthouse
was here. The town moved to Princess Anne in 1733. All of the maps
in the dining room show Somersettown on them. |
