Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Kent Island

​KENT ISLAND, an island some 15 miles long in Chesapeake Bay, Md., 7 miles E. of Annapolis. It was here the first settlement in Maryland was made by William Claiborne in 1631.

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