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Major Joseph Wickes settled on Eastern Neck Island about 1658 and became Chief Justice of Kent County. Before 1674 the court met at Wickliffe, his home there, which is no longer standing. By 1680 he had acquired 864 acres, the southern half of the island, and held it until his death in 1692. His great-grandson Captain Lambert Wickes, who spent his early years there, served with distinction in the Continental Navy and was lost at sea with his sloop-of-war Reprisal on October 1, 1777.
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