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Alpheus Wheelock (1763-1794), plan for a Kent County barn, c. 1790
The white Eastern Shore residents represented in the documents came mostly not from the elite social class, but rather from the ranks of artisans and small-to-middling landowners.
A large number of documents relate to Alpheus Wheelock, a young house carpenter and veteran of the Revolution who moved to Kent County from Massachusetts in the 1780s. Wheelock was apparently not a slaveholder, and seems to have made little, if any, use of workers enslaved by others.
This drawing is a plan of a barn built by Wheelock around 1790, which includes areas for a stable and carriage house. Very few such architectural renderings survive from the 18th-century Eastern Shore.
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