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Dorsett Family Cemetery
(Anne Arundel)
off Queen Anne Bridge Road, in woods
Davidsonville, MD 21035
A wrought iron fence with “Dorsett” on the gate surrounds the cemetery
Tombstones range from 1830-1898
Eleven known individuals
No known veterans
Copied by the Davidsonville Survey Team of the Davidsonville Area Civic Association,  April 13, 1985. Information is found on Find-A-Grave
According to a Find-A-Grave entry, Thomas J. Dorsett owned 202 acres of which ½ acre was reserved for a family burying ground.
Index to Marriages and Deaths in the (Baltimore) Sun, 1837-1850, compiled by Thomas L. Hollowak, copyright 1978, p. 160.
Tombstone Inscriptions of Southern Anne Arundel County by Marlborough Towne Chapter of Maryland State Society of NSDAR, , 1971, p. 386
Maryland Historical Trust State Historic Sites Inventory Form AA-857
in  Anne Arundel’s Legacy by Donna M. Ware, 1990, p.163.