History and Genealogy Reading Room
Index
to the Genealogical Manuscript Collections
G.5001
ABELL COLLECTION
Typescript by Horace A. Abell and Lewis P. Abell entitled "The
Abell
Family in America. Descendants of Robert Abell (-1663) Immigrant
to
Massachusetts," published as The Abell Family in America (Portland,
Vt.:
Tuttle Publishing Co., 1940). See also MS. 1083.
1 vol. (indexed)
G.5002
DR. JOSEPH SWEETMAN AMES COLLECTION
Notes on the Ames family of Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Virginia, Massachusetts; notes on the Maryland families of Boyce,
Carroll,
Gaither, Goldsborough, Gough, Graeme, Harrison, Lee, Moale, Ridenour,
Schley, Sterrett; miscellaneous photographs and letters; a scrapbook;
photocopies of articles from the Richmond Standard, Baltimore
Sun, and
Wallace's Illustrated Weekly.
14 boxes and 1 vol. (indexed, GI)
G.5003
MOLLIE HOWARD ASH COLLECTION
Letters and notes of professional genealogical research on various
Mary-
land families, particularly of Cecil County.
4 boxes (indexed, GI)
G.5004
EDITH WORLEY BEATTY COLLECTION
Material used in The Waters Book: Genealogy of Waters and Allied
Families;
Posthumous Papers (n.p., ca. 1950): letterbook, 1801-49, of Dr.
John Worth-
ington Dorsey; four scrapbooks of Emily Lantz's "Genealogical
Notes"
from the Baltimore Sun, 1904-8; typescript genealogy of the Waters
family
of Maryland; notes on the Beall, Beatty, and Dorsey families.
32 vols. (indexed)
G.5005
HARRY LEE BENSON COLLECTION
Notes on families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, principally
of
Somerset and Worcester Counties, including Adams, Benson, Carsley,
Merrill, Wilson; one box of early land records, title searches,
plats.
3 boxes and 3 vols.
G.5006
DR. JAMES BORDLEY, JR. COLLECTION
Notes used in the compilation of Bordley's book, The Hollyday
and Related
Families of the Eastern Shore (Baltimore: Maryland Historical
Society, 1962).
6 boxes
Q.5007
MRS. ROBERT FENWICK BRENT COLLECTION
Notes and letters related to the Maryland families of Bedford,
Compton,
Hager, Harris, Manly, Nicholson, Stricker; typescript of E. R.
Richardson,
"Brent Family in England"; typescript genealogy of the
Hager family of
Maryland; copies of letters from George Stricker of Wheeling,
West
Virginia to his son, John Stricker, 1794-1805.
5 boxes and 1 vol.
G.5008
DR. BENNETT BERNARD BROWNE COLLECTION
Notes, letters, and documents used in Browne's "Bennett,
Brooke,
Browne, Cochrane and Neale family chart"; notes on the Hall,
Hands,
Lawson, Mainwaring, Smyth families of Maryland.
1 box (chart indexed, GI)
G.5009
BUCKLEY FAMILY COLLECTION
Notes used for Lawrence Buckley Thomas, Genealogical Notes of
the Thomas
and Allied Fami'lies of Maryland (New York: Henry T. Thomas Co.,
1896).
1 Vol.
G.5010
WILSON MILES CARY COLLECTION
Genealogical charts of 105 Maryland and Virginia families accompa-
nied by notes giving references to source material (photocopy
of each chart
has been placed in the Society's chart case for reader use).
3 boxes and 3 vols. (indexed, GI)
G.5011
HENRY IVENS KIRK COLLECTION
Manuscript genealogy of the Corbin family of Virginia and their
connections by marriage to the Lee, Lightfoot, Sprigg, Tayloe,
and other
families of Maryland and Virginia.
1 box
G.5012
DALLAM FAMILY COLLECTION
Manuscript genealogy of the Dallam family of Maryland by May F.
Dallam Block; correspondence of the Dallam family; family Bible
record
of Samuel and Catherine (Murphy) Dallarn, ca. 1827.
1 box
G.5013
ANNIE S. DANDRIDGE COLLECTION
Notes and letters of the Bond, Murray, Rackliffe, Walter, and
related
families of Maryland.
1 box
G.5014
BENJAMIN J.DASHIELL COLLECTION
One volume of Dashiell genealogical records collected after the
publi-
cation of Dashiell's three volume work, Dashiell Family Records
(Baltimore:
Sun Printing Co., 1928, 1929, and 1932); one volume each of Dashiell
wills and autographs; eight typescript volumes entitled "Somerset
County
Maryland Colonial Families"; manuscript copy of the "DeChiel
Family
in France, the French Ancestry of the Dashiells"; notes on
the Ackworth,
Adams, and Handy families of the Eastern Shore and the Western
Shore
families of Dorsey, Duvall, Ely, Greenbury, Howard, Ridgely, Stringer,
and Warfield; manuscript copies of the "Descendants of Dixon
Stansbury"
and "Ancestry of Mary Louis Wooten Carpenter"; four
volumes of "His-
tory of Stepney Protestant Episcopal Parish" with copies
of the parish
registers, 1692-1833; manuscript histories of the Greenhill Church
in
Wicornico County and the Coventry Protestant Episcopal Church
in
Somerset County with copies of the parish registers; four volumes
of
"Chronicles of Somerset County Maryland"; typescript
carbon copies of
various chapters of Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore by Clayton
F. Torrence
(1935; reprint ed., Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1966);
indexed
manuscript copies of Dashiell land transactions; deed book IKL
(vital
records, 1666-1720); Somerset County chancery depositions, 1668-1789;
marriage banns, 1666-1683; Somerset County marriage licenses,
1796-
1831; two volumes of land records of the Manokin and the Annernessex
areas of Wicomico County; a copy of Le Canton 1Anse, PHistoire
et lAnecdote
by Marin and Mercier (Lyon, France: Pierre Masson, 1925), with
English
translations of the portions relating to the Dashiell family.
6 boxes and 23 vols.
G.5015
JOHN STAIGE DAVIS COLLECTION
Genealogical outlines of the Blackford, Byrd, Carter, Davis, Jefferson,
Minor, Randolph, Staige, Washington, and Willis families of Virginia
and
the Howland Family of Massachusetts; notes, deeds, wills, and
letters
related to the Bowdoin, Erving, Lynde, Newgate, Pordage, Teackle,
and
Temple families.
1 box (indexed, GI)
G.5016
KATHARINE COSTIGAN DORSEY COLLECTION
Notes on the English connections of the Dorsey, Hammond, and related
families of Maryland.
1 box
G.5017
RICHARD MARINE DUVALL ANCESTRAL TABLETS
Ancestral tablet of Juliana Webster (Goldsborough) Duvall showing
her
descent from the Brooke, Ennalls, Greenbury, Ridgely, Schley,
Strider,
Worthington, and other Maryland families; ancestral tablet of
Richard
Marine Duvall showing his descent from the Beall, Belt, Cheney,
Duvall,
Gaither, Gambrill, Ijams, Jacob, Magruder, Marsham, Plummer, Smith,
Turner, and Waring families of Maryland.
1 box
G.5018
LEDLIE 1. LAUGHLIN COLLECTION
Typescript and handwritten genealogical studies of the Emory and
Thomas families of Maryland, with accompanying charts.
1 box
G.5019
FERDINAND B. FOCKE COLLECTION
Manuscript copies of Owings family Bible records; letter describing
locations of family burial grounds in Montgomery County; notes
on the
Bateman, Carroll, Disney, Edmundson, Fite, Galloway, Linthicum,
Owen,
Owings, Rhodes, Smith, Sweetser, Wells, and related families of
Maryland.
2 boxes
G.5020
VICTORIA GITTINGS COLLECTION
Notes, letters, and Bible records on the Gittings, Hall, Howard,
Parker,
Parran, Sellman, Sterret, West, and related families of Maryland.
2 boxes
G.5021
ELIZABETH GREENWAY COLLECTION
Charts, notes, documents, and Bible records: Gittings, Greenway,
McDonald, and McKesson families of Maryland; Reed family of Penn-
sylvania; Williams families of Maryland and Connecticut; and Taylor
family of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Documents of a dispute over
the
property of Matthew Hawkins in the early nineteenth century.
1 box and 6 vols.
G.5022
BENJAMINHOWELLGRISWOLD,JR.COLLECTION
Scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, letters, documents, and mementos
detailing the life of Benjamin Howell Griswold, Jr.; holograph
and types-
cript copies of the "Descendents of Edward, Matthew, and
Michael
Griswold of Connecticut," author unknown; genealogical materials
on the
Blackwood, Clement, Howell, and Robertson (Robinson) families
of West-
ern Maryland; five issues of the American Historical Register
containing the
Howell genealogy.
4 boxes
G.5023
MRS. RUSSELL HASTINGS COLLECTION
Notes on the Brerewood, Calvert, Darnall, Digges, Evans, and Mynne
families with emphasis on the British backgrounds used in a series
of
articles by Mrs. Hastings, "Calvert and Darnall Gleanings
from English
Wills," published in the Maryland Historical Magazine 21
(December 1926):
303-324 and 22 (1927): 1-22, 115-138, 211-245, and 307-349.
1 box
G.5024
F. SYDNEY HAYWARD COLLECTION
Three volumes containing abstracts of wills, administration accounts,
parish registers, marriage records, newspaper accounts, and tax
lists in
reference to the Harford County families of Amos, Bond, Bull,
Bussey,
Butterworth, Gorsuch, Scott, Slade, Stansbury, and Street; two
genealogies
incorporating much of the above material with additional information
on
the families of Cockey, Colegate, Eichelberger, Green, Hillen,
Jarrett,
Jenkins, Macatee, Merryman, Ridgely, Rutlege, and Wheeler.
1 box
G.5025
SAMUEL GOVER HOPKINS COLLECTION
Genealogy of the Winchester family of Maryland with information
on
the Baggs, Legg, Lowe, Mason, Pancoast, Richardson, Ridout, and
other
Maryland families; genealogy of the Coale, Glover, Hill, Hopkins,
and
Johns families; records copied from Friends meetings referring
to the above
families.
6 vols. (indexed)
G.5026
MRS. HARRIS HENRY HORNER COLLECTION
Letters, records, and notes about the Horner (of Ohio, Illinois,
and other
Western states) and Hypes families and related Maryland families
of
Anderson, Beall, Boarman, Murray, and Waters; one typescript volume
concerns the compiler's branch of the Horner family.
6 boxes and 21 vols.
G.5027
HYNSON FAMILY COLLECTION
Typescript of "Some Annals of the Hynson Family of Kent County,
Maryland" with family photographs.
1 box
G.5028
INDIANAPOLIS STAR COLLECTION
Newspaper clippings from the Indianapolis Star genealogy column,
1932, with numerous queries on families in Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, and Virginia.
1 box
G.5029
DR. CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTON COLLECTION
Genealogical charts, notes, wills, deeds, and letters concerning
many
early families of Maryland and Virginia with particular emphasis
on the
johnston(e) family of Maryland and England; genealogies of the
Stanford,
Stith, Vernon, and Watkins families; two booklets of Maryland
epitaphs;
index to Calvert County wills recorded at Annapolis.
4 boxes and 1 Vol. (indexed, GI)
G.5030
JOHN BARRETT KERFOOT COLLECTION
Notes on the Barrett, Kerfoot, Lawrence, and other prominent early
families of Maryland.
1 box
G.5031
MRS. SAMUEL CHARLES KERR COLLECTION
Notes, wills, deeds, and other material of the Sewall family of
Maryland
and the West and Bolling families of Virginia; list of subscribers
to the
oath of allegiance of Saint Mary's County, 1778.
1 Vol.
G.5032
JANE GRIFFITH KEYS COLLECTION
Notes on numerous families of Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, and
Ohio
emphasizing the Scott family (name later changed to Harden) of
early
Maryland.
1 box (indexed, GI)
G.5033
HENRY 1. KIRK COLLECTION
Notes and genealogies of the following families: Cowgill, Fenton,
Gryme,
Hannis, Janney, jasper, Kirk, Kirkbride, Penn, Reade, and Twining
of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Whittingharn and related families
of the
Eastern Shore of Maryland; and Ball, Fielding, Lewis, Towles,
and related
families of Virginia.
1 vol. and 6 boxes (indexed, GI)
G.5034
FANNY LYON COLLECTION
Notes, family letters, and charts of the Berryman, Bower (Bauer),
Brandt, Hammond, Latimer, Lyon, and Orrick families of Maryland.
1 box
G.5035
ANN P. MARSHALL COLLECTION
Copies of wills, deeds, and Bible records relating to the Marshall
family
of "Marshall Hall" in Charles County.
1 box
G-5036
MRS. P. D. SHINGLETON COLLECTION
Notes and correspondence concerning 150 families of Western Mary-
land, primarily Washington County, the results of professional
research
for various clients.
1 box (indexed, GI)
G.5037
WILLIAM J. MCCLELLAND COLLECTION
Letters, notes, and other papers of the Bossart, Fidler, McClellan,
Raborg, Vredenberg, Wilson families of Pennsylvania, Virginia,
and the
Western United States.
2 boxes
G.5038
W. DUNCAN MCKIM COLLECTION
Notes and letters of the Birckhead, Haslett, McKim, Verplank,
and
related families of Maryland.
1 box
G.5039
EZRA MICHENER COLLECTION
Lineages of the Doane, Dunn, Fitzwater, Link (Linck), Michener,
Shoemaker, Spencer, Walton, and related families of Pennsylvania
with
connection of the Doane family to that of Deacon John Doane of
Massa-
chusetts.
2 vols.
G.5040
EDWARD C. MORSE COLLECTION
Notes, letters, copies of wills, deeds, maps, and newspaper clippings
of
the Blake, Clarke, Darnall, Morse, Spaulding, Wederstandt, and
job
Smith families of Maryland and their connections in Louisiana
and
Virginia; list of slaves owned by Conrad T. Wederstandt in 1801
along
with "A Study of the Negroes of Col. Henry Darnall and Their
Migra-
tions."
2 boxes
G.5041
JULIA MARGUERITE NEILSON COLLECTION
Incomplete typescript record of the Neilson family; additional
material
concerning the Neilson family as well as of the Deran, Ellender,
Fryfogle,
and Thomiz families connected by marriage.
2 boxes (partially indexed)
G.5042
NANNIE (BALL) NIMMO COLLECTION
Correspondence, compiled genealogies, and notes concerned with
Mrs.
Nimmo's research as a professional and family genealogist: materials
on
the Allen, Brashier, Emory, Handy, Lazear, Norris, Riggin, Ward,
Wat-
kins, and other families; typescripts on various branches of the
Dorsey
family, especially female, which may not have been included in
The Dorsey
Family (n.p., 1947) by Maxwell J. Dorsey, Jean Muir Dorsey, and
Nannie
Ball Nimmo; copies of administration accounts and inventories
of estates
of Baltimore County, 1669-1710.
4 boxes (indexed, WF)
G.5043
CHARLES ALBERT PEALE COLLECTION
Letters, notes, copies of wills, deeds, Bible and other genealogical
records
of the Burd, Hollinger, Hubley, Patterson, Peale, and related
families of
Pennsylvania and the Polk and Dorsey families of Maryland; box
nine
contains an index to the collection.
9 boxes (indexed, GI)
G.5044
DR. THOMAS DOBBIN PENNIMAN COLLECTION
Five notebooks entitled "The Massachusetts Pennimans,"
"Pue and
Griffith Lines of Ancestors ... .. Dushane and Duke [Families]
of Delaware
and Calvert County, Maryland," "England and America
Activities of
Ancestors," and the "Dobbins in Ireland and Baltimore
[Maryland]."
1 box
G.5045
PENNINGTON PAPERS
Notes, copies of wills, deeds, land patents, and Bible records
of the
Pennington family of England and the United States and the Carroll,
Clapham, Cooke, Darnall, Digges, Frisby, Goodloe, Handy, Harper,
Lloyd, Ogle, Rhett, Smith, Tilghman, and numerous other Maryland
families.
11 boxes (indexed, GI)
G.5046
ELDRIDGE C. PRICE PAPERS
Notes concerning the descendants of Thomas Price, the immigrant
settler of Saint Mary's in Maryland, through his son, Mordecai
Price of
Anne Arundel County and the ancestry of Dr. Eldridge Price; information
about the Beall, Cole, Cowman, Edmonston, Haines, Matthews, Needles,
Plummer, Rodgers, Wadsworth, and other related families; biographical
information about Dr. Eldridge C. Price.
8 boxes (indexed, GI)
G.5047
MRS.T.CATESBY JONES COLLECTION
Genealogy of the Sheldon family of New England and Ohio; copy
of
Sheldon Magazi'ne, no. 4 (Oct. 1857); a diary of R[uth] S. Baldwin,
1857-77,
relating her experience as a teacher at Fort Keough, Montana Territory
with an eyewitness account of the return of American troops with
prisoners
after the defeat of Prince Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians; Baldwin
family Bible record; autograph book of the Rev. Henry Olcott Sheldon
with brief autobiographical notes of numerous Methodist churchmen;
notes and letters of the Ap John, Hoskins, and Jones families
of England,
Brooke family of Maryland, and Hunter and Pendleton families of
Vir-
ginia; manuscript of "Records of minutes of the council of
the Community
of United Christians," a communistic society of Middleburg,
Ohio, 1836-
37.
1 box
G.5048
JOSEPH L. HUGHES COLLECTION
Notes, cemetery inscriptions, and church records of the Bush,
Coale,
Evans, Michael, Osborn, Pinion (a black family), Trego (Trago),
and
other families principally of Harford County; photocopies of Hall,
Har-
wood, Sellman, and Stockett family Bible records; newspaper clippings
of
biographies of prominent men in Harford County; newspaper copy
of
Baltimore's first directory published in 1796; photocopy of individuals
taking the oath of fidelity in 1778, probably for Harford County;
photo-
copy of a list of taxables of Bush River and Lower Harford Hundreds,
1776; typescript copy of parish register kept by the Rev. George
W.
Thomas of Western Run Parish, Baltimore County (1893-99) and Saint
Paul's Parish, Frederick County (1890-191 1); photocopies of land
records,
principally of Harford County.
5 boxes
G.5049
MRS. DUNCAN BRENT (HARRIET CARRINGTON
BROWN) COLLECTION
Notes, letters, and charts of the Brown, Dunn, Hynson, Jones,
Locker,
Wickers, and other families of Kent County; Dunn-Hynson Bible
records.
2 boxes
G.5050
DUDDRA REUNION RECORDS
Register book of the Duddra (Dodrer, Dudderar, Dudrear, Dudrow,
Duttera, Dutterer, and Dutrow) family reunion held in Littlestown,
Penn-
sylvania and Hyattstown and Rocky Ridge, Maryland; photographs
of
those attending the reunions of 1931 and 1932 with identification
lists.
1 box,1928-31
G-5051
CHARLES COX HOPPER COLLECTION
Manuscript copy of "The First Hoppers of the Eastern Shore";
Hopper
family Bible record; notes of the Hall family of Queen Anne's
County.
1 box
G.5052
MRS. WILLIAM W. CAUSEY (ANNA REID ANDREWS)
COLLECTION
Notes and manuscripts of the families of Andrews of North Carolina,
Bolling of Virginia, Dunklin and Herbert of South Carolina, and
Reid of
Georgia.
1 box (indexed, GI)
G.5053
MRS. MARY B. (COALE) REDWOOD COLLECTION
Notes, newspaper clippings, typescripts, and letters of the Buchanan,
Coale, Duvall, Hall, Hopkinson, McKean, Proud, Redwood, Smith,
and
other related Maryland families.
2 boxes (indexed, GI)
G.5054
ROBERT M. TORRENCE COLLECTION
Typescript genealogical studies and correspondence about the Bu-
chanan, Dowdel, Emory, Gatchell, LeRoy, Monroe, Paul, Rogers,
Tyler,
and other related families of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
1 box
G.5055
DE COURCY RUTH PAPERS
Notes of the Baily, Emory, Hawkins, Register, Ringold, and Edward
Smith families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
1 box
G.5056
LOUISA HALL ROBINSON COLLECTION
Notes, letters, and charts of the Brewer, Calhoun, Cattell, Fraser,
Peale,
Robinson, and Woodward families of Maryland; typescript copy of
an
autobiography of Charles Willson Peale.
1 box
G.5057
CHARLES B. ROGERS COLLECTION
Copies of wills, deeds, and other records of the Brown, Buchanan,
Cockey, Croxall, Gill, Gittings, Jones, Lawson, Owings, Perry,
Rattenbury,
Rogers, and related families of Maryland.
1 box
G.
5058 MRS. SYDNEY WETHERALL COLLECTION
Original deeds, memorabilia, and family correspondence of the
Weth-
erall and Matthews families of Maryland; notes and correspondence
of
the Aldridge, Bower, Bower, Bowie, Calwell, Colwell, Forman, Green,
Hilleary, Shakleford, and West families of Maryland and Virginia
con-
nected to the Wetherall family by marriage.
1 box (indexed, GI)
G.
5059 DR. THOMAS E. SEARS COLLECTION
Abstracts of administrators' accounts of Talbot County; index
to wills
of Talbot County filed in the register of wills office in Annapolis;
list of
persons who took the oath of allegiance in Talbot County, 1778;
book of
abstracts of marriage and death notices from newspapers, wills,
land
records, and ships' registeries all in reference to Talbot County
families; a
card file of genealogical notes copied from deeds, wills, marriage
records,
newspapers, and other sources.
1 box
G.5060
RAPHAELT.SEMMES COLLECTION
Copies of wills, deeds, accounts, and other genealogical source
records
concerning the earliest settlers in Maryland, principally of Charles
and
Saint Mary's Counties: abstracts of land transfers and debt books,
re-
bounding of land, Charles County depositions, 1753 rent roll of
Charles
County, index to the Prerogative Court testamentary proceedings,
final
distributions of estates; indexes to many wills of the Semmes
family in
Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina. Material from this collection
has
been used in the publication of The Semmes and Allied Families
(Baltimore:
Sun and job Printing Office, Inc., 1918) by Raphael Thomas Semmes
and The Maryland Semmes and Kindred Families (Baltimore: Maryland
His-
torical Society, 1956) by Harry Wright Newman.
98 boxes (calendared)
G.
5061 ISAAC COALE COLLECTION
Typescript genealogy of the Cary, Coale, Coles, Harvey, Matthews,
Prall, Scull, Skipwith, Thomas, and Troupe families of Maryland.
1 box (indexed, GI)
G.5062
MRS.IDAM.SHIRK COLLECTION
Typescript of "The Talbott Family" by Ida M. Shirk;
Lawrence family
genealogy. Much of this material appears in Descendants of Richard
and
Elizabeth (Ewen) Talbott of Poplar Knowle, West River, Anne Arundel
County,
Maryland (Baltimore: Day Printing Co., 1927) by Ida M. Shirk.
1 box
G.
5063 SHIPLEY COLLECTION
Manuscript copy of "Genealogy, Memoirs, Biographical Sketches
of the
Shipley Family" by B. F. Shipley and E. C. Shipley, 1895.
1 box
G.5064
PERCY G. SKIRVEN COLLECTION
Correspondence, abstracts of wills, deeds, church records and
Bible
records of the Gale, Gemmill, Handy, Learning, Rasin, Skirven,
and other
related families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland; biographical
material
concerning Judge James A. Pearce and the Rev. Alexander Williamson
also of the Eastern Shore; World War I records of Kent County
from local
newspapers; muster rolls of Kent County militia, 1775-76; notes
on
"Chartley Farm" in Baltimore County owned by the Risteau
and Ham-
mond families. Box one contains a detailed list of contents of
each box.
9 boxes
G.5065
H.Y. REIF SNYDER COLLECTION
Typescript and photocopies of wills, deeds, and genealogical correspond-
ence relating to the Sewell family of Maryland.
2 boxes
G.5066
MISS BERKELY STEVENSON COLLECTION
Notes, letters, and family records of the Bernard, Davidson, Hite,
Madison, Smith, and Willis families of Virginia and the McPherson,
Russell, and Stevenson families of Pennsylvania; notes of family
connec-
tions in Texas, South Carolina, and Georgia; some gravestone inscriptions
and Bible records from Charles County and marriage records of
Prince
George's and Saint Mary's Counties.
2 boxes
G.5067
STOUFFER FAMILY COLLECTION
Manuscript of the "Family Records of John Stouffer, son of
Henry of
Baltimore City, [Maryland]" compiled by John Stouffer in
1844 with
records of the Stouffer family (which originated in Pennsylvania
and later
moved to Baltimore) and related families of Arnold, Cromwell,
Dudrow,
Garrett, Keyser, and Seman.
1 box
G.5068
SARA HELIZA BETH STUART COLLECTION
Notes, letters, Bible records, and typescripts relating to families
primarily
of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Box one: Briscoe, Browning,
Comegys,
Constable, Corse, Crew, Denune, Dudley, Dunn, Evans, Griffith,
Hender-
son, Hicks, Houston, and Hynson; box two: Lorain, Lynch, Massey,
Morgan, Orem, Richardson, Ridgeway, Riley, Rochester, Rolph, and
Rose; box three: Sands, Skeer, Skirven, Smith, Spearman, Sudler,
Tan-
nehill, Tippen, Toaes, Usilton, and Walraven; box four: Adams,
Kennard,
Mitchell, Morris, Stuart, Trulock, and Turner, the Dick Papers
(marriage
records of Western Maryland), and incomplete card files (H through
Z)
containing miscellaneous marriage records and notes on history
and
genealogy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware.
4 boxes and 6 card files (indexed within collection)
G.
5069 WARFIELD COLLECTION
Warfield family genealogy consisting of about five hundred cards
(ar-
ranged in alphabetical order) listing descendants of Richard Warfield
of
Anne Arundel County.
1 box
G.5070
MISS MARYE.WATERS COLLECTION
Ancestral portraits and records of the Cromwell, Gist, Howard,
and
Waters families; genealogical data concerning the Dorsey, File,
Hammond,
lams, Orrock, Reinicker, Stevenson, and Thomas families of Maryland;
photographs of paintings, coats-of-arms, and prints of members
of these
families and historic sites.
1 vol.
G.5071
MISS EMILY E.WEEMS COLLECTION
Photocopies of wills and notes concerning the Weems family of
Mary-
land.
1 vol.
G.5072
WILLIAMN.WILKINS COLLECTION
Data on 391 Maryland families resulting from Wilkins's professional
research.
24 boxes (indexed, WF)
G.5073
EDWARD B. MATTHEWS COLLECTION
A series of charts detailing lineages of Maryland families from
William
the Conqueror and Charlemagne.
6 boxes
G.5074
LETITIA STOCKETT WILSON COLLECTION
Correspondence, notes, and typescripts on 146 families and connections
resulting from Mrs. Wilson's career as a family and professional
genealo-
gist.
7 boxes (indexed, WF)
G.5075 IDA MORRISON (MURPHY) SHIRK COLLECTION
Notes, correspondence, and other materials of the Talbott and
related
families of Belt, Bosley, Dimmitt, Gassaway, Gosnell, Hobbs, Hopkins,
Lawrence, Luckett, Magruder, Merryman, Owings, Plumber, Richardson,
Ridgely, Todd, Warfield, and Winchester. Mrs. Shirk published
the results
of her research of these families in Descendants of Richard and
Elizabeth
(Ewen) Talbott, of Poplar Knowle, West RI'Ver, Anne Arundel County,
Maryland
(Baltimore: Day Printing Co., 1927). See also G. 5062.
8 boxes
G.5076
MARIA EWING MARTIN COLLECTION
Notes and correspondence about the descendants of Ninian Beall
of
Maryland and the related families of Belt, Johnston, MacGregor,
Magru-
der, Nash, and Offut; genealogical information on the Ewing family
of
New Jersey; copies of genealogical correspondence between the
Irwin and
Gilaspie families of Fairfield County, Ohio, 1812-48.
7 boxes and 40 vols.
G.5077
MARY TURPIN LAYTON COLLECTION
Notes, letters, typescripts, and patriotic society lineage papers
concern-
ing some three hundred Maryland families and a few Pennsylvania
families compiled for clients by Mary Layton.
24 boxes (indexed, GI)
G.5078
ISAAC L.RUSSELL COLLECTION
Genealogy of the Elliott, Hollingsworth, Russell, and Steers families
of
Delaware, Virginia, Ohio, and other Western states.
1 box (indexed within the collection)
G.5079
DR ELIAS JONES COLLECTION
Correspondence, abstracts of wills, deeds, and other records of
Dorch-
ester County in reference to local county history and genealogy;
families
includes those of Edmondson, Fisher, Hooper, Jones, Lake, Lecompte,
Radcliffe, Sullivane, Todd, Travers, Turpin, and Woolford with
a number
of Dorchester County cemetery inscriptions. Collection was assembled
for
the publication, History of Dorchester Count , Maryland (Baltimore:
Williams
and Wilkins Company Press, 1902) by Elias Jones.
6 boxes
G.5080
JAMES RIDGELY ORNDORFF COLLECTION
Correspondence and notes of the Orndorff and related families
of
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Western states used in the
pub-
lication of From Mill Wheel to Plough Share (Cedar Rapids, Iowa:
Torch
Press, ca. 1938) by Julia Angeline Drake and James Ridgely Orndorff.
A
second and more detailed volume was planned using the balance
of this
collection but was never published.
40 boxes
G.
5081 MILDRED (ALLEN) LAWRIE COLLECTION
Notes on the Fierre, Ketcham (of New York), Vanderveer (various
spellings), and Viers families throughout the United States.
1 box and 1 card file (indexed, GI)
G.
5082 WINANS COLLECTION
Correspondence of Gaston XIII (Prince de Bearn de Chalals) relating
to
the descendants of Jan Winans, an early settler of New Amsterdam
and
New Jersey, with special emphasis on the Baltimore branch of the
family.
1 box and 4 card files
G.
5083 W. GRAY HARMAN COLLECTION
Charts, photocopies of plats, deeds, and typescript genealogies
of the
Harman family of Anne Arundel County and associated families of
Cronise, Detrick, Fettering, Gray, and von der Burg (Funderberg).
4 boxes
G.
5084 DUVALL COLLECTION
Two manuscript copies of the Duvall genealogy; photocopies of
a
manuscript copy of a Duvall genealogy from an original in the
possession
of the New-York Historical Society; minute book of the Society
of Mareen
Duvall Descendants, 1926-41; seventy-four completed applications
for
membership in the society with list of approved members.
1 box
G.5085
GEORGE BLAGDEN HAZELHURST COLLECTION
Charts, notes, newspaper clippings, and correspondence of the
McKim
family of Maryland with related families of Chew, Hawkins, Hazelhurst,
Telfair, Williams, and Wilson.
2 boxes (indexed, GI)
G.5086
STEWART AND WILD COLLECTION
Notes and correspondence in reference to the genealogy of the
Stewart
family of Anne Arundel County; data on Col. John Stewart; a pamphlet,
Maryland's Revolutionary Record should be ftatured in our Maryland
Schools (Bal-
timore: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1915) by Aristides
Smith
Goldsborough; description of the Stewart coat-of-arms; will of
Edward
Stewart of Anne Arundel County, 1794; notes on the history of
the
Rembrandt Peale portraits of the Stewarts; manuscript biography
of
David Stewart of Anne Arundel County.
1 box
G.5087
MCHENRY HOWARD COLLECTION
Ancestral tablets and manuscript genealogy of McHenry Howard show-
ing his connection with the Chew, Eager, Howard, Key, Lloyd, and
other
Maryland families.
1 box
G.5088
MRS. CATHERINE B. NEEDLES COLLECTION
One manuscript volume, "Genealogy of the Needles (Nedels),
Man,
Cox, Cope, and Related Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland
and
Pennsylvania"; one printed volume with interwoven manuscript
additions,
and newspaper clippings, Man, Needles (Nedles), Hambleton Families
with
Other Affiliated Thereunto, A.D. 1459-A.D. 1876 (Philadelphia:
Edmund
Deacon, 1875) by Samuel Hambleton Needles.
1 box
G.5089
DR. JAMES GRAHAMMARSTON PAPERS
Doctor Marston was a professional genealogist, genealogist of
the Society
of Colonial Wars in Maryland, and registrar for the Maryland Chapter
of
the Sons of the American Revolution. Copies of numerous applications
for
membership in these societies and correspondence about them.
4 boxes
G.
5090 ANNABELLE KEMP COLLECTION
Correspondence, genealogical notes, family photographs, and photoco-
pies of census, pension, and land records in reference to the
Kemp,
Lindsay, Lucas, Porterfield, and associated families. Collected
in prepa-
ration of the Lucas Genealogy (Hollywood, Calif., 1964) by Annabelle
Kemp
and a proposed book on the Kemp genealogy never published.
20 boxes (indexed)
G.
5091 JABEZ HASKELL HAYDEN COLLECTION
Letters, notes, and typescript genealogy of the Haskell, Ray,
and related
families of New Haven, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
1 box (indexed, GI)
G.5092
TACY NORBURYCAMPBELL COLLECTION
Notes, charts, correspondence, and photocopies of wills and deeds
of the
Appold, Campbell, MacKenzie, Norbury, and related families of
Mary-
land and Pennsylvania.
13 boxes
G.5093
MRS.JOSEPH LALLY (SPAULDING) COLLECTION
Photocopy of Mrs. Lally's work-book of research on the Spaulding
family of Maryland.
1 box
G-5094
ANNA MELISSA GRAVES COLLECTION
Genealogy of Anna Melissa Graves showing descent from Benjamin
Graves, an early Massachusetts settler, and the New Amsterdam
families
of Badie, Beekman, Bennett, Braconie, Bredenbent, Cappoens, Coever,
joosten, Letie Meserolde, Praa, Rapalye, Ryerse, Strycker, Van
der Beeck,
Verdon, and Trico; notes on the Hinckman and Hoare families of
England
and collateral lines.
1 box
G.5095
F.WILLIAM COOPER COLLECTION
Notes on the Cooper family for The Cooper Family of Maryland (Baltimore:
Gateway Press, 1972) by F. William Cooper.
1 box
G.
5096 J. HALL PLEASANTS COLLECTION
Correspondence and notes about the Baker, Corbin, Finley, Fullerton,
Hall, Holme, Leech, McConnell, Nice, Pearce, Perry, Powe, Rutter,
and
Tilghman families of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
1 box
G.5097
DR. RICHARDS.UHRBROCK COLLECTION
Notes and correspondence on the Redden (Redding) family of Mary-
land and Delaware, the Pilcher (Pilchard) family of Maryland,
and the
Gott family of Anne Arundel County.
2 boxes (indexed, GI)
G.5098
SMITHERS-SMATHERS GENEALOGY COLLECTION
Notes, correspondence, and records of the Schmetter, Smathers,
Smith-
ers, Smothers, and Smythers family of Maryland and Delaware.
1 box (indexed, GI)
G.5099
THOMAS A.ENLOE COLLECTION
Correspondence, notes, and charts of the Endslow, Enloe, Enlow,
En-
slow, Inloes, and Inlow families; typescript copy of Enloe family
genealogy.
1 file cabinet and 6 vols.
G.5100
H.HANFORD HOPKINS COLLECTION
Notes and letters of the Burgess, Hammond, Hitselberger, Holdcraft,
and Wood families of Frederick County; research papers relating
to
"Stillwork" farm in Frederick County.
2 boxes
G.5101
ESTHERE GIST COLLECTION
Correspondence between George Washington Gist of Westminster,
Maryland and Margaret Adlum Green Jones of Philadelphia, Pennsylva-
nia, 1889-96, and from various relatives and friends about the
Gist
genealogy; notes on the Abbott, Adlum, Berwick, Besson, Cameron,
Foutz,
Gist, Jones, Rattenbuy, Saughier, and Walls families; inventory
of the
estate of Nellie Cameron Jones Foster; "Gleanings of the
Gist family
History . . . " by Margaret Adlum Green Uones) Gist. The
majority of the
above letters also reflect Gist's work as a civil engineer in
railroad construc-
tion in West Virginia, Arkansas, Wisconsin, and as Assistant City
Engineer
in Evansville, Indiana and describe the harshness of camp life
and
difficulties with the crews. The correspondence with relatives
show the
migration of various Gists to Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina,
and
Florida.
14 boxes (calendared)
G.5102
REBECCA WARFIELD COLLECTION
Notes and correspondence about the Hickman, Capt. Roger Jones,
and
Lewis families of Virginia, the Winchester family of White Level
(Mary-
land), the Campbell family of New Hampshire and New York, and
the
Adams and Warfield families of Maryland.
1 box (indexed, GI)
G.5103
ROBERT WILLIAM BARNES COLLECTION
Typescript genealogies of the Ashman, Bale, Carnan, Carroll (of
the
Caves), Carroll (of Brooklandwood and of Carrollton), Cockey,
Cradock,
Croxall, Elder, Gist, Hunt, Kell(e)y, Lyon, Moale, and Sater families
of
Baltimore County.
1 box (indexed)
G.
5104 LAURA DEMPSTER GRONEMEYER COLLECTION
Notes, correspondence, photocopies, lineage charts, census records,
land
sales, mortgage records and maps of the Cover, Fite, Gist, Reinecker,
Stevenson, Strawbridge, Wells, and other families; numerous pamphlets
and papers relating to Methodism in Maryland and Robert Strawbridge.
16 boxes, I oversized notebook (indexed)
G.
5105 WILLIAM W. DIEHL COLLECTION
Family documents, Bible records, correspondence, and notes on
the
Randall and related families of Bates, Black, Davis, Diehl, Dilworth,
Furry, Harry, Jarvis, Leslie, Morgan, Stinchcomb, and Wyrick.
1 box (indexed)
