Carpenter Point is a point of land on the Wicomico River in

Charles County, Maryland Charles County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 166,617. The county seat is La Plata. The county was named for Charles Calvert (1637–1715), third Baron Baltimore. T ...

. It is located on the northern shore of Cobb Neck on the tidal part of the Wicomico River, which was called the West Wicomico River in early colonial records to differentiate it from the Wicomico River on the

Eastern Shore of Maryland The Eastern Shore of Maryland is a part of the U.S. state of Maryland that lies mostly on the east side of the Chesapeake Bay. Nine counties are normally included in the region. The Eastern Shore is part of the larger Delmarva Peninsula that Ma ...

. The land was originally part of or very near the western border of Captain

James Neale Captain James Neale (1615 – 1684) was an influential early immigrant to Maryland. Early life Neale was born in 1615, to Jane Baker and Raphael Neale of Drury Lane, London and of Wollaston, Northamptonshire, England. One of his daughters was ...

's "Wollaston Manor" estate.Klapthor & Brown, p. 8. Cooksey's Point is the next point to the west, and McReynolds Point the next point to the east.

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