Index to Maryland Colonial Wills, 1634-1777, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland


Book Description

This is an index to all the wills of colonial Maryland (1634-1777) as found in Will Books 1-41 at the old Land Office in Annapolis, now on file in the Hall of Records. It contains the names of approximately 16,000 testators, alphabetically arranged, giving the year of probate, the county, and the volume and page where the complete will is recorded. Among a host of other virtues, it is a convenient index to persons whose wills are abstracted in Jane Baldwin's "Maryland Calendar of Wills," published in eight volumes between 1904 and 1928.




Index of Maryland Colonial Wills, 1634-1777


Book Description

An index to the Maryland colonial wills as contained in the Prerogative Court records as Wills, Libers 1-41 in the Hall of Records in Annapolis.






















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.