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Robert Lyon Mayall Papers, 1800-1865, MS 2788
Maryland Historical Society
Library of Maryland History
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provided by Apex Data Services, March 1999.) Robert Lyon Mayall Papers, 1800-1865 Contact Information:Robert Lyon Mayall Papers, 1800-1865
Maryland Historical
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Maryland Historical Society
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Descriptive Summary
ROBERT LYON MAYALL COLLECTION
MS. 2788
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore MD 21201-4674
Scope and
Content Note
In 1990-1991, Robert Lyon Mayall compiled his research on his family, and wrote four lengthy letters to his children in England, summarizing his findings. These letters from the Robert Lyon Mayall Collection. The Mayall family was descended from such notable Baltimoreans as Betsy Bonaparte (1785-1879), Samuel Smith (1752-1839), William Patterson (1752-1835), General Joseph McClure Sterrett (1771-1821), and the Hollins family. The typescripts focus on Betsy Patterson's marriage and life with Jerome Bonaparts, merchant life in eighteenth and nineteenth century Baltimore, and the War of 1812, especially the Battle of Bladensburg, the Battle of North Point, and privateers.
Container List
Four typescripts:
Elizabeth Spear Patterson Bonaparte and the American Bonapartes
General Joseph McClure Sterrett and the Battles of Bladensburg and North Point; Anglo-American War of 1812-1815
The Hollins-Smith ±Cluster' of Armed Privateers in the Naval War of 1812-1815
The American Civil War; the Blue and the Gray; 1990 U. S. PBS Miniseries and Notes on Our Families, North and South, in the ±War of Secession'
Subject Headings
Baltimore--Commerce Battle of Bladensburg Battle of North Point Bonaparte, Elizabeth Spear Patterson (1785-1879) Hollins family Patterson, William (1752-1835) privateers Smith, Samuel (1752-1839) Sterrett, Joseph McClure (1771-1821) War of 1812
