Colonial Maryland Naturalizations


Book Description

The chief interest in this work rests with the naturalizations in Part III, which were compiled from Maryland's Provincial Court documents in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Between 1742 and 1775 upwards of 1,000 naturalizations were granted in Maryland. Data in the naturalization records presented here includes the identifying number of the record, date of naturalization, date of communion, volume and page of the Provincial Court Judgments, name, county or town of residence, nationality, church membership, location of church, and witnesses to communion. Place names, clergy, and parish locations are identified in the appendix.







An Index of the Source Records of Maryland


Book Description

The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.




Niles' Weekly Register


Book Description

Containing political, historical, geographical, scientifical, statistical, economical, and biographical documents, essays and facts: together with notices of the arts and manu factures, and a record of the events of the times.




Revolutionary Records of Maryland


Book Description

Records of patriot's oaths of fidelity and support, 1778; unpublished revolutionary records of Prince George's county, loyal civil services from April 19, 1775, to Sept. 8, 1783 and "book of persons having taken the oath to support government."




Land Office and Prerogative Court Records of Colonial Maryland


Book Description

About two-thirds of this work is devoted to a history of the land administered by colonial Maryland, with a detailed inventory of Patents, Warrants, Proprietary Leases, Rent Rolls, Debt Books, etc. The remainder consists of a study of the colonial Prerogative Court, which had control over probate matters.




Maryland Calendar of Wills


Book Description

Abstracts include all persons mentioned in the original will, names of tracts, acreage and situation or means by which a property came into the possession of the testator.







Archives of Maryland


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