Sinepuxent, Maryland
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Sinepuxent was a town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, on the mainland across from Assateague Island. It was destroyed by a hurricane in 1818 and never rebuilt.
Sinepuxent was the birthplace of U.S. Navy officer Stephen Decatur (1779). There is also a bay nearby Sinepuxent called the Sinepuxent Bay, which is in Worcester County, MD.
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