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There are some important Maryland tools on line that you can use that may help.
Transcripts of the tax lists for Somerset Co. are on line at the MD Archives for 1723-1759. Go to the main page. At left click the link to list "all volumes" and scroll down until you see the one for the tax lists. Expect that Pocomoke Hundred will disappear as of 1742, when it was set off to Worcester County.
Pocomoke Hundred was in the part of Somerset Co. that became Worcester Co. in 1742. You are in luck because the 1783 tax list transcript for Worcester Co. is also on line at the MD Archives.
You can find the original land grants for lands in Somerset Co. listed in the searchable database at www.plats.net; you need to enter username plato and password plato#. This will get you to a page where you choose a county; click Somerset. There will be some boxes asking for book-page # that of course you won't have; click on "advanced search" blue link. In the long box for "description" type in a surname or tract name. Be aware that where in the main listings a target name is as "Smith, John" the search for "John Smith" might not find it. So try surname comma first name if all else fails. Usually the results will only give you listings for certificate and patent. Pay attention to the narrow columns toward the right. If there is a number in the "images" column click the far right link and you get a list of the images from the microfilm that have been put online. At least look at them; the first page gives index entries with helpful info. The next couple or few give the survey information and sometimes a dandy little surveyor's map of the property.
Somerset County deeds are also on line at mdlandrec.net. Go to the site, register and you will get a password by email. You will need the Acrobat Reader, latest version that your computer will support. When you get into the site after you have a password, the list on the left lists Counties. Click on Somerset or Worcester and scroll down the new page until you see the link to indexes. You may find it's most useful to work backward from what you already know, with the 1805 deed. The indexes are a little hard to work with. At the front of the book for each time period is a guide to where to find specific surnames, alphabetically, listing the pages on which surnames are listed. In the later periods there can be several pages for a common surname. You'll want to print the index pages for future reference.
For some counties there are both grantor-grantee and grantee-grantor indexes especially in later periods.
All these deeds pages can be really slow to load. If you have an archaic system like mine you will want to delete browser-cache files after every few pages (in Internet Explorer 6 click tools, options, and look for 'delete files' in the middle, and check the "offline files" box when the small page popus up).
If you have trouble with this, contact me privately frostfree12@yahoo.com or post a query on rootsweb's lower-delmarva-roots mailing list (subscribe by sending email to lower-delmarva-roots-request@rootsweb.com; put only the word "subscribe" without the quotes in both subject and message and you'll get a message back saying you've subscribed and how to post messages). That mailing list has a number of people with expertise in this area including some having folks who went to Georgia.
Good hunting,
Jade
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