Ocean View, Delaware bypassed the area where Ocean View now lies because of the poor quality of its sandy, salty soil and the salt air that blew in from the Atlantic Ocean; they preferred to settle a few miles farther inland, where the land was higher and drier and the soil richer. Would-be settlers also faced a legal complication in obtaining land in what is now Ocean View, because Lord Baltimore claimed the area as part of his Maryland colony, while William Penn asserted that the area belonged to the Delaware Colony; settlers opted to look elsewhere for land to which they could
The Devil Makes Sunday The Devil Makes Sunday The Devil Makes Sunday is a TV play about a convict break out on Norfolk Island by Bruce Stewart, who had just written "Shadow of a Pale Horse". It was based on the real life Norfolk Island convict mutinies. It was filmed for British, US and Australian TV. It was also adapted for radio. In 1840 on Norfolk Island, convicts rise up against their guards. The play was filmed in Britain as part of "ITV Sunday Night Drama". The episode was filmed in the US as part of the "US Steel Hour". On the penal colony