CHESTERTOWN — Old Kent Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution hosted the seven chapters of the Eastern Shore luncheon Aug. 21 at Chester River Yacht & Country Club.
The theme was “A Chestertown Tea Party.”
Bonnie Hill is regent of the Old Kent Chapter.
The other chapters on the Shore are Head of Elk, Elkton; General Perry Benson, Easton; Great Choptank Parish, Cambridge; Samuel Chase, Salisbury; Nanticoke, Princess Anne; and General Levin Winde, Pocomoke.
Special guests included a slate of state DAR officers, led by Regent Liz Deering and Vice Regent Patti Maclay.
In the keynote performance, award-winning actress and Smithsonian Scholar Mary Ann Jung of History Alive! portrayed Margaret Brent (1601-1671), a British Catholic who in 1638 fled religious persecution and landed in St. Mary’s City.
The Maryland colony had been started by her cousin Anne Arundel’s husband, Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore.
Margaret Brent would become the first woman to own land in America, its first female lawyer and the first woman in America to demand the right to vote.
