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The Maryland Gazette, 1727 - 1761, Genealogical and Historical Abstracts
The Early Settlers of Maryland
Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers, 1796-1816
Abstracts from the Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser
The Swampoodle Book: A Walk Back Through History - Lower Marlboro, Then and NowAlong the Potomac River: Extracts From the Maryland Gazette, 1728-1799
Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century
The Free Negro in Maryland: 1634-1860
Runaway Slave Advertisements: Vol. 2, a Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790; Maryland
White Servitude in Maryland, 1634-1820
The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Freedom in Baltimore and Early National Maryland
Maryland Marriages, 1634-1777Marriages and Deaths from the Maryland Gazette, 1727-1839
Maryland Eastern Shore Vital Records
Maryland Eastern Shore Newspaper Abstracts
Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore, 1820-1834: From Customs Passenger Lists
Marylanders to Kentucky, 1775-1825
More Marylanders to Kentucky: 1778-1828
Maryland Naturalization Abstracts
Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church from Original Sources
Pungoteague to Petersburg Vol. I Eastern Shore Militiamen Before the Civil War 1776-1858
Colonial Maryland Naturalizations
A Gazetteer of Maryland & Delaware
The British Invasion of Maryland, 1812-1815
Genealogical Research in Maryland: A Guide
The Proprietorship of Maryland: A Documented Account
Calvert Papers Calendar and Guide to the Microfilm Edition
British Roots of Maryland Families
British Roots of Maryland Families II
Selected Final Pension Payment Vouchers, 1818-1864
Settlers of Maryland, 1679-1783
Settlers of Maryland, 1701-1730
Settlers of Maryland, 1731-1750
Settlers of Maryland, 1766-1783
Marriages and Deaths From Eastern Shore Newspapers 1790-1835
A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of Virginia and the District of Columbia
The Chesapeake Book of the Dead: Tombstones, Epitaphs, Histories, Reflections, and Oddments of the Region
(1835)
"There is a romantic, nostalgic, pleasantly melancholy feeling to old cemeteries that is hard to define but easy to experience. Perhaps it is because we can feel the direct link to our past that no history book, no movie, no historical fantasy can ever convey. These stones and these unkempt grounds are the hard evidence of lives that came before us. Once, these people lived and breathed, loved, worked, fought, hoped and despaired, and experienced their triumphs and failures just as we do today. And, although we seldom care to acknowledge it, we will inevitably go where they have gone."—from the Preface
"For the many people who enjoy walking through old cemeteries, exploring forgotten and overgrown graveyards, and reading the names, dates, and epitaphs of the dead, the Chesapeake Bay region offers a rich assortment of final resting places, many dating back to the early 1600s. From Williamsburg to Havre de Grace, it is not uncommon to see a number of the living wandering among the markers of the dead. Some are genealogists and historians, others come in search of quietude and a tangible connection to the past. In The Chesapeake Book of the Dead, Helen Chappell and photographer Starke Jett survey this rich legacy, from the vast and imposing Arlington National Cemetery to lone graves so modest as to have been lost almost as soon as they were dug. Chappell and Jett visit graveyards of the famous and the obscure, wander through cemeteries dotted with both elaborate funerary and simple, weather-beaten headstones, and discover epitaphs that range from the literary to the amusing to the poignant. As old grave sites disappear under developers' bulldozers, through neglect, and at the hands of unscrupulous headstone collectors, this remarkable book offers a unique and elegiac look at our past and its tales of love and tragedy. Among the cemeteries explored are Southeast Washington's Congressional Cemetery (posthumous home to composer John Philip Sousa, FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, pioneering feminist and muckraking journalist Anne Royall, and Choctaw chief and notable military tactician Pushmataha); Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery (built in the 1830s as Baltimore's first sylvan graveyard); and Westminster Burying Ground in downtown Baltimore. At Westminster lies the grave of Edgar Allan Poe, which a mysterious figure visits each year on Poe's birthday to leave roses and a bottle of brandy. The book also describes the final resting places for such celebrities as Dorothy Parker (Chappell located her ashes at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore), F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (buried in Rockville at Scott's wish, because, he insisted, "I belong here," in Maryland, "where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite"), and cosmopolitan actress Tallulah Bankhead (interred in a plot her sister provided near Chestertown). Included throughout this fascinating book are essays on mourning fashion and deathbed performances, graveyard ghost stories, discussions of efforts to save historic cemeteries, and notes from the diary of a nineteenth-century doctor who today is buried in Rising Sun Cemetery alongside many of his patients. Chappell's lively prose, accompanied by Jett's haunting black-and-white photographs, will delight all those drawn to the seclusion, peacefulness, and melancholy of old graveyards."A History of the Southern Maryland Society [1914-1964]
A History of the Southern Maryland Society, 1965---1989, Volume II
Western Maryland Newspaper Abstracts
Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware: From the Colonial Period to 1810
Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America: The Maryland Experience, 1634-1776
Index to the 1820 Census of Maryland and Washington, D. C.
Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake: Maritime Disasters on Chesapeake Bay and Its Tributaries, 1608-1978
Our Heritage: A Genealogical History of the ALLEN Family of Maryland
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The George Ledlow and Ann Mariah (Singleton) ANDERSON Family of Harford Country, MarylandLog and Will of Jeremiah BANNING (1733-1798)
Some Maryland BAXTERs and Their DescendantsA Partial View of the BEASMAN - BASEMAN Family of Maryland
The BEITZEL Family: A History of the Descendants of John George BEITZEL, 1813-1893 who Settled in the Casselman Valley of Garrett County, Maryland; Related Families, BEACHY, BRENNEMAN, DIEFENBACH, KLOTZ, MAUST, OPEL, ORENDORF, RESH, SHOEMAKER, SNYDER...The BOSTON Family of Maryland
William BUCKLAND 1734-1774: Architect of Virginia and Maryland
The BURCHINAL Genealogy: The Descendants of Thomas BURTCHNELL, ca. 1670-1709, of Cecil County, Maryland and His Children, Jeremiah BURCHINAL ("Jeremy") and Mary BURCHINAL, Kent County, MarylandPrinces of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A CARROLL Saga, 1500-1782
"Anywhere So Long as There Be Freedom:" Charles CARROLL of Carrollton, His Family and His Maryland
Early Catonsville and the CATON Family
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CORBIN - WAITE - COOPER of Baltimore County and CityThe CLARKs of Maryland and Allied Families
The Descendants of Dr. Lewis DEROCHBRUNE of Queen Anne's County, Maryland
Thomas DUKES, Jr., of Caroline County, Maryland: Some of His Descendants and Associated Families
The ELLICOTTs: Striving for a Holy Community
Joseph ENGLAND and His Descendants: An Historical Genealogy of the ENGLAND Family as Descending from Joseph ENGLAND, 1680-1748: A Quaker Family of Cecil County, Maryland (prior to 1767, Chester County, Pennsylvania) since 1723...Descendants of Joseph FRANCIS of Maryland and Virginia
Our Maryland Heritage, Book One: The FRY Families
A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves...
(paperback) Old Wye Church, Talbot County, Maryland, 1694-1949
HAYDEN - RAPIER and Allied Families: Colonial Maryland, Kentucky, U.S.A.
Descendants of John & Mary HOWES of Montgomery County, MarylandThomas JENKINS Of Maryland 1670, His Descendants and Allied Families
The KIMBLEs of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Cecil County, Maryland
The Descendants of Michael KOLLER (CULLER) and Elizabeth SCHMID of Frederick County, Maryland
LEWIS Patriarchs of Early Virginia and Maryland
The Big LONG Family in America, 1736-1979: A Host of Descendants of John LONG, 1728-1791, of Plantation Baker's Lookout, Washington County, Maryland
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The McKAIG Journal: a Confederate Family of Cumberland
Roots and Shoots of Our Maryland
MERTZ FamilyMISKIMMONS: The Descendants of David and Rachel MISKIMMINS of Washington County, Maryland
The NORRIS Family of Maryland & Virginia; Genealogy of Thomas NORRIS, 1361-1930
The Descendants of William PELL, Sr., of Kent County, MarylandFrom Germany to Antietam: The Early History of the PFAFFENBERGER Family
PETTY, of England & Virginia; WRIGHT, of Virginia, Kentucky & Missouri; RILEY, of Maryland, Kentucky & Missouri; And Related ALEXANDER, COPELAND, DALE, DOUGLASS, GIVENS, HUBBARD, McCLUNG, OWENS, PATTON, PAXTON, ROWLAND & TEDFORD Families
The ROBERTSON Family of Carroll County, Maryland 1837-1987
The SHIPLEYs of Maryland: A Genealogical StudyThe SPALDING Family of Maryland, Kentucky and Georgia from 1658 to 1965
Thomas STONESTREET of Birchden, Withyam, East Sussex, and of Charles County, Maryland, with his Posterity Down to the Sixth Generation...
The John WHEELER Family of Charles County Maryland, Correction Notes
Account of the Meeting of the Descendants of Colonel Thomas WHITE
of Maryland, Held at Sophia's Dairy, on the Bush River, Maryland, June 7, 1877...
The Descendants of the Rev. Christopher WILKINSON of Queen Anne's County, Maryland
Revolutionary Patriots of Calvert and St. Mary’s Counties, Maryland, 1775-1783Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Roll Call: The Civil War in Kent County, Maryland
Events of the Civil War in Washington County, Maryland
Maryland Public Service Records: 1775-1783: A Compendium of Men and Women of Maryland Who Rendered Aid in Support of the American Cause Against Great Britain During the Revolutionary WarRevolutionary Patriots of Maryland, 1775-1783, A Supplement
Revolutionary Records of Maryland
Maryland and Delaware Revolutionary Patriots, 1775-1783 Military Records
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History of the 175th Infantry (Fifth Maryland)
Regimental Colors of The 175th Infantry (Fifth Maryland)
Roster of Civil War Soldiers From Washington County, Maryland
Uniquely Maryland: Cookbooks, Vintage postcard Views, Maps, Documents & More
Historic Pages From the Baltimore Sun, 1837-1983
The Sun Papers of Baltimore 1837-1937
Harford County in Vintage PostcardsReceipts From Old Worcester
CookbookOriginal, Antique Handwritten Composition Book, Containing 53 Imaginative Essays and Stories, Written Between September, 1855 and November, 1857
by Baltimore schoolboy Richard CUSHING
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