Rockawalkin
Presbyterian Church on Nanticoke Road Salisbury, Maryland
This church no longer exists
but a picture from a book entitled Maryland’s Colonial Eastern Shore:
Historical Sketches of Counties and of Some Notable Structures by Swepson Earle
and Percy G. Skirven shows
what it once looked like. Today there is
a brick memorial to remember the church.
Major Alexander Roxburgh (Scottish background) was a member of this church. He fought in the battle of Brooklyn in August
1776 and also served in the Southern Campaign.
Major Roxburgh eloped with the granddaughter of Levin Handy (Pemberton
Hall). One could easily walk between the church (on the left hand side of
Nanticoke Road going from Salisbury to Nanticoke, on the west side of Riawalkin
Pond). The next time you pass Riawalkin
Creek give a thanks to God and to people like Major Roxburgh who stood for
freedom at great cost.
Rockawalkin Presbyterian Church organized by Francis
Mackemie in 1683 and a church built in 1767.
