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Tarkington is a grand old name, which was used by the Vikings, an ancient Scandinavian people who migrated to England and then to the U. S.
They settled in Maryland, then Virginia, and later moved to North Carolina and Tennessee. Finally, a branch of the family went  to Texas, while
other groups went to Indiana and Kentucky.

The Scandinavian Tarkingtons appear to be in England by 873 A.D. A township was named for the people till 1900 A.D.   After they came to
America they continued to move and can be found from throughout the United States.

The Tarkingtons in England were Episcopalians - many were Priests, Vicars, Deacons, Vice Chancellors, Rectors, etc. Many spellings of the
name Tarkington appear in the records. In North Carolina many omitted the "g", in Tennessee many used the letter "g", especially after Booth
Tarkington used it in his famous name.

John Tarkington, Sr., his wife Prudence, their son John, Jr. and wife Martha, and their son William Joshua came to America in about 1668.
They settled on 250 acres of land in Baltimore County, Maryland. The plantation was named "The Grove".   John Tarkington had a son Samuel,
whom it is said was killed or kidnapped by the Indians.

John Tarkington was one of the original settlers of Maryland. He began to accumulate property by getting settlers to move to a certain locality. In
1675 he transported a group into the province to inhabit in Cecil County, and obtained 560 acres for himself.
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Some of the above is from The Pioneers Were Our Ancestors, by Irwin Anderson Watson.

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Colonel Joshua Tarkington

"Records of the early history of what is now Pea Ridge tell us this area was some
of the first to be settled in what is now Washington County.

Sixty-nine years after the translating of the Bible into the King James version or
in the year 1680, Captain Thomas Miller and Colonel Joshua Tarkington
made their celebrated exploration of the South Shore of the Albermarle Sound
(called by the early captains the Carolina River).  On their return to Queen Ann's
Creek (later to  become Edenton), they reported the land as "Hearts Delight."  
With the pressing flow of immigrants from Virginia, the Albemarle area was
beginning to get a bit congested, so, with the good report from Miller and
Tarkington, there was a trickle of settlers to the South Shore - first, at the
mouth of the Scuppernong River, then to Kendricks Creek (present day
Mackeys).  From there, they moved on down the shoreline to the east to
make a settlement called South Lancaster."

"In 1680, Captains Joshua Tarkington and Thomas Miller began a
settlement of cypress loggers on the shores of the Scuppernong River in
present Tyrrell County where Columbia now stands.  Thomas Miller
appears in colonial records of the Albemarle area, so it may be safely
presumed it was he who was appointed a Proprietary Governor in
1677 and deposed by Culpepper."

The above is from WASHINGTON COUNTY A TAPESTRY -  
Edited by Frances Bickey Jones, BS, MA, Elizabeth Burgess Lucas Modlin
 and Shirleyan Beacham Phelps, 1996.

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