US-Maryland Archives - Genealogical.com https://genealogical.com/product-category/us-maryland/ The Best Source for Genealogy and Family History Books and eBooks Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:16:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://genealogical.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-genappicon-300x300-1-125x125.png US-Maryland Archives - Genealogical.com https://genealogical.com/product-category/us-maryland/ 32 32 List of Free African Americans in the American Revolution: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware https://genealogical.com/store/list-of-free-african-americans-in-the-revolution-virginia-north-carolina-south-carolina-maryland-and-delaware/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:11:20 +0000 https://genealogical.com/?post_type=product&p=63739 This work by Paul Heinegg summarizes the Revolutionary War (and in some cases earlier military) service of free African Americans who resided in the states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas. As such, the book is a distillation of the Revolutionary War and other military service found in Mr. Heinegg’s two larger works, Free […]

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]]> This work by Paul Heinegg summarizes the Revolutionary War (and in some cases earlier military) service of free African Americans who resided in the states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas. As such, the book is a distillation of the Revolutionary War and other military service found in Mr. Heinegg’s two larger works, Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820 and the companion volume, Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware to About 1810, where the full family histories of the combatants may be found. 

Over 420 African Americans who were born free during the colonial period served in the American Revolution from Virginia. Another 400 who descended from free-born colonial families served from North Carolina, 40 from South Carolina, 60 from Maryland, and 17 from Delaware. At least 24 from Virginia and 41 from North Carolina died in the service. Over 75 free African Americans were in colonial militias and the French and Indian Wars in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Although some slaves fought to gain their freedom as substitutes for their masters, they were relatively few in number. By the same token, those who were not serving under their own free will are not included in this list. It was simply not their fight.

While the information on each of the free black veterans of the War for Independence varies, in most cases the author has provided the individual’s name, state and county, unit served in, military theater, some family information, often a physical description, pension applied for or received, sometimes other information, and the source. The case of Isaac Brown of Charles City County, Virginia, is illustrative of many of the descriptions found in the volume:

Isaac Brown was born in Charles City County and enlisted there in the Revolution for 1-1/2 years on 12 September 1780: complexion black, 5’2-1/2″ high, a farmer [Register & description of Noncommissioned officers & Privates, LVA accession no. 24296, by http://revwarapps.org/b69.pdf (p.45)]. He was taxable in Lower Westover Precinct of Charles City County in 1786 [PPTL, 1783-7], head of a Charles City County household of 10 “other free” in 1810 [VA:959] and 4 “free colored” in 1820 [VA:13]. He applied for a pension in Charles City County at the age of 69 on 19 May 1829, stating that he enlisted in Charles City County in the fall of the year 1780 and served in Captain Sanford’s Company in Colonel Campbell’s Regiment for 18 months. He was in the Battle of Guildford Courthouse, the Siege 14 of Ninety Six, and the Battle of Eutaw Springs. He owned 70 acres in Charles City County [NARA, S.39,214, M804, Roll 366, frame 240 of 893; http://fold3.com/image/11713004].

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]]> Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810. Second Edition https://genealogical.com/store/free-african-americans-of-maryland-and-delaware-from-the-colonial-period-to-1810-second-edition/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:50:58 +0000 https://genealogical.com/?post_type=product&p=63110 In this second edition of his acclaimed work, Paul Heinegg has continued reconstructing the history of the free African American communities of Maryland and Delaware by looking at the history of their families. Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware is a work that will intrigue genealogists and historians alike. First and foremost, Mr. Heinegg […]

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]]> In this second edition of his acclaimed work, Paul Heinegg has continued reconstructing the history of the free African American communities of Maryland and Delaware by looking at the history of their families.

Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware is a work that will intrigue genealogists and historians alike. First and foremost, Mr. Heinegg has assembled genealogical evidence on more than 400 Maryland and Delaware black families (naming nearly 10,000 individuals), with copious documentation from the federal censuses of 1790-1810 and colonial sources consulted at the Maryland Hall of Records, county archives, and other repositories. In fact, the author has examined all extant court records for Maryland and Delaware for the period under investigation. No work that we know of brings together so much information on colonial African Americans, except Mr. Heinegg’s three-volume series volume on Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. This second edition of Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to About 1810 is nearly 60% larger than the original.

The author offers documentation proving that most of these free black families descended from mixed-race children who were themselves the progeny of white women and African American slaves or free blacks. In all, Heinegg proves that these families descended from 264 white women who had had 374 mixed-race children. He has also identified another 112 white women who bore 127 mixed-race children for whom no direct evidence of offspring could be found. While some of these families would claim Native American ancestry, Mr. Heinegg offers evidence to show that they were instead the direct descendants of mixed-race children.

Colonial Maryland laws relating to marriages between offspring of African American and white partners carried severe penalties. For example, one 18th-century statute threatened a white mother with seven years of servitude and promised to bind her mixed-race offspring until the age of thirty-one. Mr. Heinegg shows that, despite these harsh laws, several hundred child-bearing relationships in Delaware and Maryland took place over the colonial period, as evidenced directly from the public record. Maryland families, in particular, which comprise the preponderance of those studied, also had closer relationships with the surrounding slave population than did their counterparts in Delaware, Virginia, or the Carolinas. Mr. Heinegg recounts the circumstances under which a number of these freedmen were able to become landowners. Some Maryland families, however, including a number from Somerset County, chose to migrate to Delaware or Virginia, where the opportunities for land ownership were greater. For example, the freeman John Johnson, of Somerset County, patented 400 acres in Rehoboth Bay, Sussex County, Delaware in 1677. Other Maryland families who settled in Kent County, Delaware, included Butcher, Fountain, Gibbs, Grinnage, Lacount, Norman, Parsons, Plummer, Poulson, Proctor, Roach, Saunders, and Toogood.

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]]> Lost History of Stolen Children: An Epic Poem https://genealogical.com/store/lost-history-of-stolen-children-an-epic-poem/ Sat, 24 Jul 2021 12:38:32 +0000 https://genealogical.com/?post_type=product&p=62706 In what is quite possibly the first epic poem in the English language since the 19th century, Richard Hayes Phillips has discovered and recounted the stories of kidnapped children whose survival itself was heroic. The author is a long-time songwriter and folksinger in the Scottish and Irish tradition and is a published author with three […]

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]]> In what is quite possibly the first epic poem in the English language since the 19th century, Richard Hayes Phillips has discovered and recounted the stories of kidnapped children whose survival itself was heroic. The author is a long-time songwriter and folksinger in the Scottish and Irish tradition and is a published author with three historical reference books to his credit. He has both the skills and the material for such an undertaking. The books, known informally as the White Slave Children Trilogy, identify by name more than 5,000 white children kidnapped from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Massachusetts and sold into slavery in Maryland and Virginia, c. 1660-1720. These were not indentured servants. These were children without indentures–that is, without a contract–taken against their will. They were sentenced to servitude by the County Courts. Their names and ages are on the record. The younger the child, the longer the sentence.

The books track the movements of 170 white slave ships, identify with a high degree of certainty the parents of 1,400 children, and reveal what became of 200 survivors. The author has subsequently compiled records of kidnapped children sold in Pennsylvania and has traced the migration of dozens of runaways and their descendants through the Appalachian Mountains.

The epic poem is divided into 75 passages, in lyric poetry, with rhyme and meter. Some of the passages are, or will become, folk songs. The White Slave Children Trilogy, published in paperback by Genealogical Publishing Company, is also available in a hard-bound, cloth cover, stitched page edition directly from the author.

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]]> An Index of the Source Records of Maryland https://genealogical.com/store/an-index-of-the-source-records-of-maryland-2/ Sun, 23 Feb 2020 23:52:47 +0000 https://genealogical.com/?post_type=product&p=57129 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 […]

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]]> 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.

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]]> Genealogy at a Glance: Maryland Genealogy Research https://genealogical.com/store/genealogy-at-a-glance-maryland-genealogy-research/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:27:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/genealogy-at-a-glance-maryland-genealogy-research/ Advocating religious toleration as early as 1634, Maryland attracted a variety of settlers– separatists and Quakers as well as Roman Catholics–becoming one of the fasting growing colonies in the mid-Atlantic. When the Appalachian region was opened in the 1740s by the Scotch-Irish and Pennsylvania Germans, Maryland expanded west almost into the Ohio country. Settlement was […]

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]]> Advocating religious toleration as early as 1634, Maryland attracted a variety of settlers– separatists and Quakers as well as Roman Catholics–becoming one of the fasting growing colonies in the mid-Atlantic. When the Appalachian region was opened in the 1740s by the Scotch-Irish and Pennsylvania Germans, Maryland expanded west almost into the Ohio country. Settlement was thus widespread and diverse, and one of the keys to finding ancestors in the Free State, according to the author of this Genealogy at a Glance (GAAG) guide, is to search for records at the county level.

Like other publications in the GAAG series, Maryland Genealogy Research is a four-page laminated folder designed to cover the basic elements of genealogical research at a glance. The Maryland GAAG provides an overview of the facts you need to know in order to begin and proceed successfully with your research. Focusing on traditional record sources such as vital records, court records, land records, and probate records, it contains useful tips, research advice, analyses of the major record sources used in Maryland research, and clues to finding those records in state and local repositories.

A handy and practical guide for the beginner, Maryland Genealogy Research also includes lists of books for further reference and a list of the principal online resources. In addition, it contains a comprehensive list of Maryland repositories and their websites, and in the spirit of the Genealogy at a Glance series, it attempts to fill in every gap in the beginner’s toolbox.

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]]> Chronicles of Colonial Maryland https://genealogical.com/store/chronicles-of-colonial-maryland/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:23:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/chronicles-of-colonial-maryland/ Thomas’ history of Maryland focuses upon a number of aspects of Maryland’s colonial history which, at the time of the book’s original publication in 1900, had received scant attention. Thus, in the first chapter the author concentrates on Saint Clement’s, Maryland, the precise place of the first landing in St. Mary’s County. In fact, a […]

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]]> Thomas’ history of Maryland focuses upon a number of aspects of Maryland’s colonial history which, at the time of the book’s original publication in 1900, had received scant attention. Thus, in the first chapter the author concentrates on Saint Clement’s, Maryland, the precise place of the first landing in St. Mary’s County. In fact, a third of the book is devoted to Maryland’s first capital, St. Mary’s City, and its surrounding county. Here the genealogist with 17th-century Maryland ancestry can benefit from a discussion of the laying out of the city, the founding of the Catholic Church in Maryland, the Calverts and their descendants, Governor Calvert’s manors, early civil divisions, and more. In addition, the author has included an oversized topographical map of St. Mary’s City showing the location of principal lots and homes.

Other topics covered in this informative book are as follows: land tenure of colonial Maryland, including the methods of obtaining and transferring land, remnants of feudal tenure, deeds of conveyance, and land tenure’s influence in shaping colonial institutions and the habits of people; Maryland’s judiciary system, with coverage of the evolution of the local court system, the provincial court, appeals to King and Council, and so on; and the character of Maryland’s Episcopalian religious establishment, with coverage of the parishes, taxes, bureaucracy, and various individual churches. Still another chapter is devoted entirely to the origin of the Maryland State Seal.

While there is little here in the way of genealogical source records–save for a list of Montgomery County marriages for 1796–Thomas’ charming Chronicles is chock-full of references to early settlers and settlements that will inform and educate the Maryland genealogist and historian alike.

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]]> The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware and Georgia https://genealogical.com/store/the-colonial-clergy-of-maryland-delaware-and-georgia/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:22:05 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/the-colonial-clergy-of-maryland-delaware-and-georgia/ This work lists approximately 700 clergymen under their respective states, each one the subject of a concise and informative paragraph. In addition, this volume contains an alphabetical list of the colonial churches in each of the three states covered.

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]]> This work lists approximately 700 clergymen under their respective states, each one the subject of a concise and informative paragraph. In addition, this volume contains an alphabetical list of the colonial churches in each of the three states covered.

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]]> Biographical Data from Baltimore Newspapers, 1817-1819 https://genealogical.com/store/biographical-data-from-baltimore-newspapers-1817-1819/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:22:26 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/biographical-data-from-baltimore-newspapers-1817-1819/ This book from the dean of Baltimore genealogists, Robert Barnes, is a snapshot of the people and daily life in the Monumental City in the years between the conclusion of the War of 1812 and the onset of the Panic of 1819. Mr. Barnes, who began accumulating the data for this volume many years ago […]

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]]> This book from the dean of Baltimore genealogists, Robert Barnes, is a snapshot of the people and daily life in the Monumental City in the years between the conclusion of the War of 1812 and the onset of the Panic of 1819. Mr. Barnes, who began accumulating the data for this volume many years ago when he compiled Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers, 1796-1816, has expanded his scope to include all biographical references found in newspapers and related sources for these three years. Besides newspaper notices of birth, marriage, or death, the compiler includes references to personal estates, servants, apprentices, wives, and soldiers found in publications like the Baltimore American and Commercial Daily Advertiser, Baltimore Patriot and Mercantile Advertiser, Federal Gazette and Baltimore Advertiser, Maryland Gazette, and more. The nearly 3,000 entries collected by Robert Barnes vary in content according to the life events they describe; however, they invariably provide three or more details about each subject, along with a source citation. Here are a few examples:

Aisquith, Robert C., merchant, was m. last Thurs. by Rev. Mr. Henshaw, to Miss Eleanor Elizabeth Warfield, all of Baltimore (BA 29 Sep 1817).

Dare, E. dec.; recently occupied a tailor’s shop on Pratt St., near the water J. D. Richardson, at 84 Bowly’s Wharf, advertises that the premises are to let (BPAT 20 March 1819).

Hammond, Rezin, late of Anne Arundel Co., dec., made a will on May 10, 1808 manumitting a number of his Negroes, including a Negro named Allen. John Gassaway, Register of Wills, certified on 2 Oct 1817, that the said Allen was raised at Elk Ridge, Anne Arundel Co., was f 5 tall, and had a scar on his right cheekbone near his eye. Andrew Warfield, at one time an acting Justice of the Peace in Anne Arundel Co., refutes the ‘illiberal handbill’ of George Howard [long notice giving details of the case] (BPAT 29 July 1819). (For the will of Rezin Hammond, filed in 1809, see AAWB JG#2: 513.)

In all, Biographical Data From Baltimore Newspapers, 1817-1819 refers to more than 7,000 inhabitants whose whereabouts, falling as they do in non-census years, would continue to elude researchers for some time to come.

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]]> Colonial Families of Maryland: Bound and Determined to Succeed [Vol. I] https://genealogical.com/store/colonial-families-of-maryland-bound-and-determined-to-succeed-vol-i/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:22:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/colonial-families-of-maryland-bound-and-determined-to-succeed-vol-i/ What actually became of the indentured servants and bonded immigrants who arrived in America during the colonial period? Were they able to cast off the shackles that had brought them here in the first place, and how long did it take? For his latest book, genealogist Robert Barnes traces the fortunes of more than 500 […]

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]]> What actually became of the indentured servants and bonded immigrants who arrived in America during the colonial period? Were they able to cast off the shackles that had brought them here in the first place, and how long did it take? For his latest book, genealogist Robert Barnes traces the fortunes of more than 500 Maryland debtors. His findings will interest genealogists and historians alike.

The main purpose of this work is to chronicle and categorize the life experiences of 519 persons who entered Maryland as indentured servants or, to a lesser extent, as convicts forcibly transported. Mr. Barnes, who is more familiar than anyone else with the families of 17th- and 18th-century Marylanders, describes his objectives this way:

“One of the major areas of interest was what happened to these servants after they arrived. I tabulated how many: 192 men and 2 women could be located in a specific county; I found 144 men and 11 women who were married; 142 men and seven women had children (in or out of wedlock); 60 of the men and one woman were creditors to someone else, which meant that they had reached a degree of financial stability enabling them to loan money. One man was found to have served as a vestryman, and eight men held civil office. Three served in the military. Fifty-eight men and two women performed some neighborly service, such as witnessing a will or serving as guardian to minor children; 38 men performed some community service, such as signing a petition or appraising estates; 49 men and seven women were summoned to civil or criminal court; 108 of the men left an estate at death, and eight moved to another state.

Lest genealogists conclude that this work is a mere recitation of statistics, we hasten to add that the text itself comprises solidly researched sketches of Maryland servants and convicts and their descendants, including 102 that are traced to the third generation or beyond. If your Maryland ancestor is among the following, rest assured that you will be working from the most we know about them to date:

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: Abbot, Simon; Crandall, Francis; Dowling, Emm; James, Richard; Knighton, Thomas; Maynard, Lawrence; Scrivener, Benjamin; Snowden, Richard

BALTIMORE COUNTY: Ady, Jonathan; Allen, William; Bacon, Martin; Barton, Lewis; Bell, William; Chamness, Anthony; Constable, Thomas; Cox, Christopher; Curtis, Daniel; Durham, John; Ellis, Peter; Guishard, Samuel; Guyton, John; Hissey, Charles; Isgrig, William; Jarrett, Abraham; Jessop, William; Knightsmith, Thomas; Lego, Benjamin; Lofton, William; Love, Robert; Majors, Mary Slider; Mallonee, Peter; Manley, Dorothy; Mead, William; Motherby, Charles; Mumford, Edward; Pearle, William; Pearson, Simon; Peregoy, Joseph; Phelps, Thomas; Pilgrim, Amos; Royston, John; Seabrook, William; Sindall, Philip; Wiesenthal, Charles Frederick

CALVERT COUNTY: Armstrong, Edward; Beckwith, George; Bigger, John; Broome, John; Cleverly, Thomas; Fry, Joseph; Gantt, Thomas; Hulse, Meverell; Ireland, Joseph; Kirshaw, James; Mackall, John

CECIL COUNTY: Atkins, John; Boyer, John; Freeman, William; Pullen, Richard

CHARLES COUNTY: Adams, Francis; Edgar, Richard; Farnandis, Peter; Garland, Randolph; Hardy, William; Martin, Michael; Philpott, Edward; Scroggin, George; Wathen, John

DORCHESTER COUNTY: MacNamara, Timothy

FREDERICK COUNTY: Adamson, John; Beeding, Henry

HARFORD COUNTY: Baker, Nicholas; Bull, John

KENT COUNTY: Angier, John; Atchison, Vincent; Benton, Mark; Henley, Christopher; Knock, Mary Boyer; Peale, Charles

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY: Clarvo, Francis; Lakin, Abraham; Monk, Renaldo; Pottenger, John; Simmons, Jonathan

QUEEN ANNE’S COUNTY: Arlot, Francis

SOMERSET COUNTY: Boardman, Francis; Boyer, Robert

ST. MARY’S COUNTY: Dunbar, John; Fenwick, Cuthbert; Forrest, Patrick; French, James; Kirby, William; Meakin, William; Sturman, Thomas

TALBOT COUNTY: Austin, William; Dammes, John; Gregory, Anthony; Lurkey, Nicholas; Roe, Thomas; Start, John; Tomlinson, John; Valiant, John<,br>

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]]> The First Parishes of the Province of Maryland https://genealogical.com/store/the-first-parishes-of-the-province-of-maryland/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:22:47 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/the-first-parishes-of-the-province-of-maryland/ At the outset of this work the author describes the events and conditions preceding establishment and furnishes sketches of each of the Anglican parishes existing in Maryland prior to 1692. The second half of the work contains illuminating accounts of the thirty parishes that derived from the Establishment. In each case, we are given the […]

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]]> At the outset of this work the author describes the events and conditions preceding establishment and furnishes sketches of each of the Anglican parishes existing in Maryland prior to 1692. The second half of the work contains illuminating accounts of the thirty parishes that derived from the Establishment. In each case, we are given the names of the various churches in the parish, their dates of foundation, and the names of the earliest rectors, with their dates in office, and lay officials. Each of these chapters on the counties and parishes features photographs of the earliest surviving Anglican churches in the county or the former sites of the parent churches themselves. It includes a large folding map that pinpoints the locations of the parishes.

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