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They settled in an area called (for good reason) Damned Quarter but now known more genteelly as Da.
This book of the Polk / Pollock Family traces the Family of Robert and Magdalen Polke who came to Somerset County, Maryland, from Donegal, Ireland, about 1687, among the first Scotch-Irish settlers in Colonial America.
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Awarded by the Maryland Historical Society.
PARKER PRIZE for the best genealogical work concerning a Maryland Family published in 2015.
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