Descriptive Summary

Calendar to the Revolutionary War Military Records

MS. 1146

Maryland Historical Society

Baltimore MD 21201-4674

by

Robert S. Coale

March 1979

The Collection consists of five major types of manuscripts: Militia Enlistments, Maryland Line Enlistments, Accounts of Provisions, Pay Accounts and Payrolls, and Oaths of Allegiance. Also included is a listing of assorted items. Militia Enlistments are Maryland militia papers including enlistments, muster rolls, and rosters. Maryland Line Enlistments are the enlistments, muster rolls, and rosters pertaining to the seven Maryland regiments, the Maryland

Artillery, and other regiments attached to the Maryland Line i.e., the German Regiment. Also included in this section are enlistments, rosters, and muster rolls pertaining to the Flying Camp and the Independent Companies of Maryland. These items were added to this section because the Flying Camp, the Independent Companies, and Smallwood's Regiment were the nucleus around which the Maryland Line was formed in December 1776.

The third category, Accounts of Provisions, is records of provisions and clothing that were issued to the Maryland Line mainly between 1779 and the end of the war. The regiments mentioned are the seven Maryland regiments, the Maryland Artillery, Rawling's Regiment, the German Regiment, and detachments of the Maryland Line at Annapolis and Frederick.

The fourth category is Pay Accounts and Payrolls. This section includes papers all concerning money transactions from the beginning of the war to the last settlements of pay disputes in the late 1780's. Most of these items concern the payment of Maryland Continental Troops during and after the war.

The last major category is Oaths of Allegiance. These Oaths were signed by the residents of the respective counties; however, not every county is represented.

There is a miscellaneous box containing assorted items which would not correctly belong to any of the other pre-named categories; therefore, they were placed in this seperate box. Please refer to the listing to check for items of interest.

This calendar has the manuscripts divided into one of five major categories: Militia Enlistments, Maryland Line Enlistments, Accounts of Provisions, Pay Accounts and Payrolls, or Oaths of Allegiance. Within each category the manuscripts are arranged by date, each category is contained in a box or a portion thereof. Consequently these items are to be requested by date and subject.

Box 1

Militia Enlistments

1776

Militia Muster Roll - Captain William Henry's Company

1776

Militia Enlistments - Captain Simon's Company

1776, Jun 21

Militia Enlistments, Miscellaneous

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776

Enlistments, Baltimore County Militia

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776, [UNK] 21

Enlistments, Baltimore County Militia.

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776

Enlistments, Caroline County Militia

1776

Enlistments, Charles County Militia

1776

Enlistments, Harford County Militia

1776, Aug [UNK]

Rosters, [UNK] County Militia, Capt. Edward [UNK] Company

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776

Enlistments, Frederick County Militia

1776

Enlistments, Montgomery County Militia

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776

Enlistments, Saint Mary's County Militia

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

ca. 1776

Enlistments, Calvert County Militia

ca. 1776

Enlistments, Cecil County Militia

ca. 1776

Enlistments, Queen Anne's County Militia

ca. 1776

Enlistments, Somerset County Militia

ca. 1776

Enlistments, Talbot County Militia

ca. 1776

Rosters, Washington County Militia

ca. 1776

Enlistments, Washington County Militia

[1777]

List of Officers of the Militia of Maryland Counties; appointments and requests for commissions.

1777

List of Officers, Queen Anne's County Militia

1777-1778

Militia Muster Roll, Captain John Kersham's Company Guarding Prisoners at Fort Frederick, Maryland

ca. 1778

Rosters, Cecil County Militia

ca. 1778

Rosters, Kent County Militia

ca. 1778

Rosters and Rolls, Somerset County Militia

ca. 1778

Rosters, Dorchester County Militia

1781

Rosters, Talbot County Militia

Box 2

[ca. 1779-1780]

Rosters and Rolls of Charles County Militia Companies

1779-1780

Rosters, Montgomery County Militia

1779-1781

Baltimore City Militia (Baltimoretown)

1777-1780

Rosters and Returns, Caroline County Militia

1777-1780

Rosters, Frederick County Militia

1777-1780

Enlistments, Montgomery County Militia

1777-1780

Rosters, Worcester County Militia Companies

1778-1781

Rosters, Harford County Militia

1778-1780

Rosters and Commissions, Anne Arundel County Militia

ca. 1776-1780

Enlistments, Ann Arundel County Militia

1776-1780

Enlistments, Dorchester County Militia

1776-1780

Enlistments, Prince George's County Militia

1776-1780

Rosters, Saint Mary's County Militia

1776-1781

Enlistments, Baltimore County Militia

nd.

Militia Muster Rolls

ca. 1783-1813

Pensioners, List of

ca. 1794

Appointments in the Militia of Maryland

1798

Officers Removed from the Militia Rolls of Maryland

1799, Aug 1

Militia Officers, Maryland

1807, Nov 7

Enlistments, 35th Regiment Maryland Militia

1807, Sept-Oct

Enlistments and Appointments, Captain Levy Phillip's Company of Volunteers

1803-1816

Appointments, Militia Officers

1814, July

Detachments, Maryland Militia Detail of

1824, May-Sept

Appointments, Militia Officers

1824, Sept 2

Return of Officers who have Returned to the Adjutant Generals Office

Box 3

Maryland Line Enlistments

1776, Jan 3

Muster Roll, 1st Company Smallwood's Battalion

These items are oversized. They are contained in the over sized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776, Jan 3

Muster Roll, 2nd Company Smallwood's Battalion

These items are oversized. They are contained in the over sized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776, Jan 3

Muster Roll, 3rd Company Smallwood's Battalion

These items are oversized. They are contained in the over sized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776, Jan 3

Muster Roll, 4th Company Smallwood's Battalion

These items are oversized. They are contained in the over sized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776, Jan 3

Muster Roll, 7th Company Smallwood's Battalion

These items are oversized. They are contained in the over sized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776, Jan 5

Muster Roll, 3rd Independent Company

These items are oversized. They are contained in the over sized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776, Jan 5

Muster Roll, 6th Independent Company

These items are oversized. They are contained in the over sized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776, Jun-Dec

Muster Roll, Captain E. Tillard's Company Third Battalion, Maryland Flying Camp

These items are oversized. They are contained in the over sized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776, Jun-Dec

Muster Roll, Captain R. Bowie's Company Third Battalion, Maryland Flying Camp

These items are oversized. They are contained in the over sized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776, July-Aug

Enlistments, Maryland Flying Camp

1776, July-Dec

Enlistments, Maryland Flying Camp from Charles County

1776, Nov

Flying Camp, Weekly Return of the First Regiment of Foot

1776

Enlistments, Maryland Flying Camp from Baltimore County

1776

Enlistments, Maryland Flying Camp from Frederick County

1776

Enlistments, Maryland Flying Camp from Kent County

These items are oversized. They are contained in the over sized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776

Enlistments, Maryland Flying Camp from Queen Anne's County

1776

Enlistments, Maryland Flying Camp from Saint Mary's County

1776

Enlistments, Maryland Flying Camp from Harford County

1776

Return, Captain Solomon Long's Independent Company

1776

Muster Roll, Captain James Young's Company Second Battalion, Flying Camp

1777

Muster Roll, Captain Eccleston's Company, Second Maryland Regiment

1777

Enlistments, Maryland Line

ca. 1777

Muster Roll of Officers, 5th Regiment Maryland Line

1778, Feb

Return of Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers dropped from the rolls of the 5th Maryland Regiment

1778, Nov-Dec

Muster Roll, Captain Jonathan Morris' Company 7th Maryland Regiment

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1778

Enlistments, Maryland Line from Calvert County

1779, Jun

Muster Roll, Captain Baylor's Artillery Company

1779, Oct

Return of Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers dropped from the rolls of the 3rd Maryland Regiment

1779, Dec

Muster Roll, Captain Henry Gaither's Company 1st Maryland Regiment

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1780, Jan

Muster Roll, Captain Jonathan Morris' Company 7th Maryland Regiment

1780, Apr

Roster, Captain John Gale's Company 2nd Maryland Regiment

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1780

List of Recruits, Maryland Line from Ann Arundel County

1780

Enlistments, Maryland Line from Somerset County

1780

Enlistments, Maryland Line from Washington County

1780

Enlistments, Maryland Line from Worcester County

1780

Recruits, Maryland Line, with a list of Derserters taken up

1781

Arrangement of the Maryland Line

1781

Enlistments, Maryland Line

1781

Continental Army, Maryland Militia serving in

[1781]

Militia Return, Select (to serve in Md. Line)

1783

List of Marylanders who served in 1st Partisan Legion (Pulaski's Legion, Armand's Partisan Corps)

1785

Register of the Transfers of the Maryland Line

1778-1780

List of Marylanders who served in Lee's Partisan Corps (Legion)

1778-1780

Enlistments, Maryland Line from Saint Mary's County

1778-1780

Enlistments, Maryland Line from Charles County

1778-1781

Draughts, Enlistments, and Substitutes, Maryland Line from Prince George's County

1778-1781

Enlistments, Maryland Line from Dorchester County

1778-1783

Enlistments, Maryland Line from Frederick County

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1780-1785

Enlistments, Maryland Line from Queen Anne's County

1776-1780

Musters of Maryland Troops (A-N)

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776-1780

Musters of Maryland Troops (O-Y)

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1778-1781

Enlistments, Maryland Line from Montgomery County

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

ca. 1776-1780

Musters of Maryland Troops

Box 4

Accounts of Provisions

1776

Payment to Officers of Smallwood's Regiment

1779

Officers, a List of whom received Cash in lieu of Clothing

1780, Jan-May

Maryland Line, Accounts of Clothing Issued to Officers

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1780

Supply Ledger, Maryland Line

1780-1781

Accounts of Provisions Issued to Maryland Line at Annapolis

1781

Account of Provisions Issued to Continental Troops at Frederick

1783 Jan-Oct

Maryland Line, Account of Clothing Issued at Frederick

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776-1779

Clothing Materials Issued to Officers of the Maryland Line

1778-1781

Inspection Returns of Clothing from the Maryland Line and Others

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1779-1780

Account of Provisions Issued to Continental Troops at Annapolis

1780-1782

Issue Book, Sugar, Rum, and Coffee

1781-1782

Issue Book, Maryland Line Troops

1782-1784

Issue Book, Maryland Line Troops

ca. 1778-1784

Account of Provisions Furnished to Maryland Troops

Box 5

Pay Accounts

1776

Officer's Accounts with the State of Maryland

1778, Apr-May

Account, Pulaski's Legion (Armand's Partisan Corps)

1778

Settlements and Accounts, Committee of Claims

1779

Accounts of General Smallwood with the State of Maryland

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1778-1779

Commissary's Account of Receipts

[ca. 1780]

Maryland Line, Return of Officers

1782

General Smallwood's Account

ca. 1783

Account of Advances Against the Officers of the Maryland Line

1782-1784

Accounts of Military Expenses

1782-1784

Account Book, Intendent's Office

1781-1788

Misc. Accounts of the Maryland Line

[ca. 1790]

Stoppages for the Advances by the State of Maryland from Depreciation Accounts, Maryland Line and Others

[ca. 1790]

Stoppages for the Advances to the Officers of the Maryland Line from Accounts of the United States

1786-1793

Receipt Book for Final Settlement Certificates, Maryland Line

Box 6

Pay Accounts and Payrolls

1777

Maryland Line Payroll, Captain Harrison's Company, 6th Maryland Regiment

1777 - 1778

Payroll [UNK] Maryland Regiment

Thes items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this Collection (Box 9)

1779, Jul-Oct

German Regiment Payroll, Captain Christian Meyer's Company

1779

Payroll Differential, Officers of the 1st Maryland Regiment

ca. 1780

Payroll of Maryland Troops

ca. 1780

Soldiers of the Maryland Line Entitled to Deprecation Pay

ca. 1780

Return of the 15% Tax, Tobacco Tax, and the Cash paid for Recruits and Derserters, and Certificates given for Extra Supply

1780, Aug 1-1781, Jan 1

Maryland Line Payroll

1780, Aug- 1781, Jan

Payroll of Officers of the Maryland Line

1780, Aug- 1781, Jan

Maryland Line, Five Months pay to Privates and Officers

1780-1781

Payment to Soldiers' Wives, Anne Arundel County Court

1781, Apr

Payroll, Captain P. Graybill's Company, German Regiment

Thes items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this Collection (Box 9)

1781

Receipts for Pay Due

ca. 1781

Soldiers of the Maryland Line who have not received Depreciation Certificates

ca. 1781

Cash Paid the Maryland Line since the Year...?

1781-1782

Maryland Line Payroll, Depreciation Pay Receipts

1782

Accounts of Pay Due Sundry Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of the Maryland Line for the Year

Thes items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this Collection (Box 9)

1782

A Pay List for the Officers and Men of the Barges

1782, Jan 1- 1783, Jan 1

An Account of Pay Due the Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of the Maryland Line from,

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1783, Jan 24

Maryland Line, Payment due Officers and Privates of, for Services 1780-1781

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1783

Alphabetical List of Soldiers Paid

ca. 1783, Dec

Maryland Line, Account of Pay Due

ca. 1783

Payroll of Maryland Troops

1781-1784

Maryland Line Depreciation Pay

Box 7

1780-1784

Pensions Paid to Distressed Soldiers and Wives, Western Shore

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1781-1785

Payroll of Maryland Troops

1783-1785

Maryland Line Payroll

1785

Maryland Line, Overpayment of Depreciation Accounts

Box 8

1785, Nov

Penisions or Halfpay to Officers and Soldiers

1785-1787

Maryland Line, List of Men to be Paid

1788, Aug 1

Receipt for Pay due. Alexander [UNK] 2nd md. [UNK]

1789

Revolutionary War, List of Depreciation Certificates

1791, Nov

Deprecation Pay Issued under a Resolution Assembly

1793-1794

Civil List of Halfpay to Officers and Soldiers

ca. 1794

Pay Due Soldiers of the Maryland Line

ca. 1794

Balances Due Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of the Maryland Line

nd.

Officers Pay Account

Box 7

Oaths of Allegiance

1777-1778

Ann Arundel County Oaths of Allegiance

1778

Oaths of Allegiance (see also Respective Counties)

1778

Cecil County Oaths of Allegiance

1778

Montgomery County Oaths of Allegiance

1778

Saint Mary's County Oaths of Allegiance

1778

Worcester County Oaths of Allegiance

1778-1779

Washington County Oaths of Allegiance

Box 8

Miscellaneous Items

1776

Enlistments by Virtue of a Warrant, Baltimore County

1776

Muster Roll, 1st Company of Matrosses

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

ca. 1776

Roster of Soldiers

1776-1777

Council of Saftey Records, Abstracts of Correspondence

1776-1778

Enlistments, Calvert County

1778

Derserter List

1779, Jan 9

Savanah, Casualties received by the 3rd South Carolina Regiment at,

[1779]

Lists of Commissions and Dates

1780

Militia of Maryland, Constitution

1781, Aug 13

John Murdock to Governer of Maryland

1781

Excuses from the Draft

1781

Maryland Militia, Discharge and Pay Data

1782, Apr 25

Muster Roll, Maryland Loyalists

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1782

Accounts of Recruiting Officers of the Maryland Line

These items are oversized. They are contained in the oversized box of this collection (Box 9)

1776-1783

Miscellaneous Accounts

1776-1787

Accounts of Militia Payments

List of items in the Scharf Collection continued

3

1778-1780 Enlistments, Maryland Line from Charles County

6

1779 Payroll Differential Officers of 1st Maryland Regiment

3

1781 Arrangement of the Maryland Line

2

1824, Sept 2 Return of Officers who have Returned to the Adjuntant Generals Office

2

1814, July De [UNK] Maryland Miltia, Detail of

2

1780-1813 Pensioners, List of

2

1803-1816 Appointments, Militia Officers

2

1799, Aug 1 Militia Officers, Maryland

9

1776, Jun-Dec Muster Roll, Captain R. Bowie's Company 3rd Battalion Flying Camp

9

1776, Jun-Dec Muster Roll, Captain E. Tilliard's Company 3rd Battalion Flying Camp

9

1777-1778 Militia Muster Roll, Captain John Kersham's Company Guarding Prisoners at Fort Frederick, Md.

1

ca. 1776 Rosters Washington County Militia,

(first four items only; Capt. Samuel Hughe's Co., Capt. [Conrad] Hogmire's Co., Capt. [Michael] Fracklers Co., Capt. Charles Clinton's Co.)

2

1777-1778 Rosters, Frederick County Militia

(first item, Capt. Burges' Muster Roll)

2

1777-1778 Rosters, Worchester County Militia Companies

(first ten items; Capt. John Pope Mitchell's Co., Capt. John Coe's Co., Capt. Benjamin Dennis' Co., Capt. William Handy's Co., Capt. Samuel Horseys Co., Capt. Issac Houston's Co., Capt. Philip Quinton's Co., Capt. John Rackliffe's Co., Capt. Elihue Briddel's Co., and Capt. Charles Bennet's Co.)

This is a list of items now in The Revolutionary War Military Records MS. 1146, but previously thought to be in the Scharf Collection MS 1999

9

Jan-Oct 1783 Maryland Line, Account of Clothing Issued at Frederick

9

1778 Nov-Dec Muster Roll, Captain Jonathan Morris' Company 7th Maryland Regiment

3

ca. 1776-1780 Musters of Maryland Troops

3

1785 Register of the Transfers of the Maryland Line

3

1780 Recruits, Maryland Line with a list of Derserters taken up

5

1776 Officers' Account with the State of Maryland

5

ca. 1783 Account of Advances [UNK] the Officers of the Maryland Line

5

1782-1784 Accounts of Military Expenses

6

ca. 1780 Payroll of Maryland Troops

6

1780, Aug 1-1781, Jan 1 Maryland Line Payroll

6

1781 Receipts for Pay due

6

Alphabetical List of Soldiers Paid

6

ca, 1783, Dec Maryland Line Account of Pay due

6

ca. 1783 Payroll of Maryland Troops

6

1781-1784 Maryland Line Depreciation Pay

7

1781-1785 Payroll of Maryland Troops

7

1783-1785 Maryland Line Payroll

7

1785, Nov Pensions or Halfpay to Officers and Soldiers

8

1781 Maryland Militia, Discharge and Pay Data

9

1776-1780 Musters of Maryland Troops (A-N)

9

1776-1780 Musters of Maryland Troops (O-Y)

7

1793-1794 Civil List of Halfpay to Officers and Soldiers

2

1807 Sept-Oct Enlistments and Appointments, Captain Levy Phillip's Company of Volunteers

MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Oaths of Fidelity

MS 1146

MdHR M 3218

Microfilmed by the

Maryland Hall of Records

83 759 - 11/16/82

MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Oaths of Fidelity

MS 1146

The Oath of Fidelity was instituted by Laws of Maryland 1777, Chapter 20, An Act for the Better Security of Government. Every free male 18 years and older was required to subscribe to an oath renouncing the King of England and pledge allegiance to the revolutionary government of Maryland. Oaths were administered by the magistrates of each county before March 1, 1778. One list of those who subscribed to the oath was to be kept at the county court and another sent to the governor and Council in Annapolis.

The lists from MS 1146 of individuals who took the oath are those which were sent to Annapolis. These were collected by J. Thomas Scharf from the surviving records of the governor and Council. The collection is significant since the Oaths of Fidelity for St. Mary's and Washington counties have not survived among the records of their respective county courts.

Related material in this collection are certificates of individuals who subscribed to the oath required by Congress. An individual in federal service was supposed to send a certificate of having taken the oath of allegiance to Congress to the governor of the state in which he was a resident. The governor was then to transmit the certificates to Congress.

Finally, there are several Oaths of Fidelity administered by Maryland's governor and Council and depositions by citizens who had failed to take the Oath before March 1, 1778.

MARYLAND STATE PAPERS (Oaths of Fidelity)

Cecil County

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March, 1778

Elihu Hall's Return

MdHR M 3218-1

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March, 1778

Thomas Bouldin's Return

MdHR M 3218-2

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March, 1778

John Leach Knight's Return

MdHR M 3218-3

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March, 1778

John Veazey's Return

MdHR M 3218-4

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March, 1778

Samuel Miller's Return

MdHR M 3218-5

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March, 1778

Richard Bond's Return

MdHR M 3218-6

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 1, 1778

Joseph Gilpin's Return

MdHR M 3218-7

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 1, 1778

Stephen Hyland's Return

MdHR M 3218-8

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County, East and West Nottingham Hundreds

March 2, 1778

Timothy Kirk's Return

MdHR M 3218-9

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

James Maxwell's Return

MdHR M 3218-10

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

John Cox's Return

MdHR M 3218-11

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

John Ward Veazey's Return

MdHR M 3218-12

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

David Smith's Return

MdHR M 3218-13

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

John Ward's Return

MdHR M 3218-14

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

Tobias Rudolph's Return

MdHR M 3218-15

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

Amos Alexander's Return

MdHR M 3218-16

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

John Dockery Thompson's Return

MdHR M 3218-17

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 4, 1778

Samuel Glenn's Return

MdHR M 3218-18

MARYLAND STATE PAPERS (Oaths of Fidelity)

St. Mary's County

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

February 28, 1778

Robert Armstrong's Return

MdHR M 3218-19

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March, 1778

Bennett Biscoe's Return

MdHR M 3218-20

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March, 1778

Jennifer Taylor's Return

MdHR M 3218-21

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March, 1778

Henry G. Sothoron's Return

MdHR M 3218-22

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 1, 1778

Jeremiah Jordan's Return

MdHR M 3218-23

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 1, 1778

Vernon Hebb's Return

MdHR M 3218-24

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 2, 1778

Richard Barnes's Return

MdHR M 3218-25

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 2, 1778

Henry Tubman's Return

MdHR M 3218-26

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 2, 1778

Robert Watt's Return

MdHR M 3218-27

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 2, 1778

John Ireland's Return

MdHR M 3218-28

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 3, 1778

Ignatius Fenwick, Jr.'s Return

MdHR 3218-29

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 3, 1778

John Reeder's Return

MdHR M 3218-30

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 4, 1778

Henry Reeder's Return

MdHR M 3218-31

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 4, 1778

John Shank's Return

MdHR M 3218-32

MARYLAND STATE PAPERS (Oaths of Fidelity)

Washington County

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

February 28, 1778

John Barnes's Return

MdHR M 3218-33

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County, Lower Old Town Hundred

March, 1778

Samuel Barritt's Return

MdHR M 3218-34

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

March, 1778

Henry Schnebly's Return

MdHR M 3218-35

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

March, 1778

John Stull's Return

MdHR M 3218-36

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington, County, Linton and Frederick Hundreds

March, 1778

William Yates's Return

MdHR M 3218-37

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

March, 1778

Richard Davis's Return

MdHR M 3218-38

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

March 1, 1778

Samuel Hughes's Return

MdHR M 3218-39

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

March 2, 1778

Andrew Bruce's Return

MdHR M 3218-40

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County, Sharpsburg and Lower Antietam Hundreds

March 2, 1778

Christopher Cross's Return

MdHR M 3218-41

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

March 2, 1778

Andrew Rentch's Return

MdHR M 3218-42

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

April 1, 1778

Joseph Sprigg's Return

MdHR M 3218-43

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County, Upper Old Town Hundred

March 16, 1778

Samuel Barritt's Certificate

MdHR M 3218-44

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

April 17, 1779

Dunkards and Mennonite Book, Joseph Chaplin's Return

MdHR M 3218-45

MARYLAND STATE PAPERS (Oaths of Fidelity)

Worcester County

(Oaths of Fidelity) Worcester County

February 28, 1778

Joshua Townsend's Return

MdHR M 3218-46

MARYLAND STATE PAPERS (Oaths of Fidelity)

Governor and Council

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Certificate of Subscription to the Oath of Allegiance to the Congress)

February 23, 1778

Certificate of Thomas Harwood

MdHR M 3218-47

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Certificate of Subscription to the Oath of Allegiance to the Congress)

Certificate of Jonathan Hudson

MdHR M 3218-48

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Certificate of Subscription to the Oath of Allegiance to the Congress)

February 27, 1778

Certificate of Thomas Richardson and Nicholas Lingan

MdHR M 3218-49

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Certificate of Subscription to the Oath of Allegiance to the Congress)

May 11, 1778

Certificate of Dr. Walter Smith, Jr. and Richard Henly Courts.

MdHR M 3218-50

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Certificate of Subscription to the Oath of Allegiance to the Congress)

June 16, 1778

Certificate of Edward Fox

MdHR M 3218-51

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Form of Certificate of Subscription to the Oath of Fidelity Administered by Governor and Council)

March, 1778

MdHR M 3218-52

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Oaths of Fidelity)

January 29, 1779

Matthias Bordley

Published in Archives of Maryland, Volume 21, p. 287

MdHR M 3218-53

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Oaths of Fidelity)

April, 1778

Richard Thomas, Gerrard Hopkins, William Hopkins, John Plummer, and Richard Waters

Published in Archives of Maryland, Volume 21, pp. 13, 16, 22, and 28

MdHR M 3218-54

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Oaths of Fidelity)

March 2, 1778

Allen Quynn to Council

Depositions of individuals who had failed to take the Oath of Fidelity

MdHR M 3218-55

Cecil County

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March, 1778

Elihu Hall's Return

MdHR M 3218-1

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March, 1778

Thomas Bouldin's Return

MdHR M 3218-2

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March, 1778

John Leach Knight's Return

MdHR M 3218-3

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March, 1778

John Veazey's Return

MdHR M 3218-4

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March, 1778

Samuel Miller's Return

MdHR M 3218-5

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March, 1778

Richard Bond's Return

MdHR M 3218-6

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 1, 1778

Joseph Gilpin's Return

MdHR M 3218-7

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 1, 1778

Stephen Hyland's Return

MdHR M 3218-8

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County, East and West Nottingham Hundreds

March 2, 1778

Timothy Kirk's Return

MdHR M 3218-9

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

James Maxwell's Return

MdHR M 3218-10

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

John Cox's Return

MdHR M 3218-11

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

John Ward Veazey's Return

MdHR M 3218-12

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

David Smith's Return

MdHR M 3218-13

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

John Ward's Return

MdHR M 3218-14

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

Tobias Rudolph's Return

MdHR M 3218-15

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

Amos Alexander's Return

MdHR M 3218-16

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 2, 1778

John Dockery Thompson's Return

MdHR M 3218-17

(Oaths of Fidelity) Cecil County

March 4, 1778

Samuel Glenn's Return

MdHR M 3218-18

St. Mary's County

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

February 28, 1778

Robert Armstrong's Return

MdHR M 3218-19

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March, 1778

Bennett Biscoe's Return

MdHR M 3218-20

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March, 1778

Jennifer Taylor's Return

MdHR M 3218-21

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March, 1778

Henry G. Sothoron's Return

MdHR M 3218-22

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 1, 1778

Jeremiah Jordan's Return

MdHR M 3218-23

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 1, 1778

Vernon Hebb's Return

MdHR M 3218-24

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 2, 1778

Richard Barnes's Return

MdHR M 3218-25

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 2, 1778

Henry Tubman's Return

MdHR M 3218-26

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 2, 1778

Robert Watt's Return

MdHR M 3218-27

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 2, 1778

John Ireland's Return

MdHR M 3218-28

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 3, 1778

Ignatius Fenwick, Jr.'s Return

MdHR 3218-29

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 3, 1778

John Reeder's Return

MdHR M 3218-30

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 4, 1778

Henry Reeder's Return

MdHR M 3218-31

(Oaths of Fidelity) St. Mary's County

March 4, 1778

John Shank's Return

MdHR M 3218-32

Worcester County

(Oaths of Fidelity) Worcester County

February 28, 1778

Joshua Townsend's Return

MdHR M 3218-46

Washington County

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

February 28, 1778

John Barnes's Return

MdHR M 3218-33

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County, Lower Old Town Hundred

March, 1778

Samuel Barritt's Return

MdHR M 3218-34

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

March, 1778

Henry Schnebly's Return

MdHR M 3218-35

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

March, 1778

John Stull's Return

MdHR M 3218-36

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County, Linton and Frederick Hundreds

March, 1778

William Yates's Return

MdHR M 3218-37

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

March, 1778

Richard Davis's Return

MdHR M 3218-38

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

March 1, 1778

Samuel Hughes's Return

MdHR M 3218-39

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

March 2, 1778

Andrew Bruce's Return

MdHR M 3218-40

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County, Sharpsburg and Lower Antietam Hundreds

March 2, 1778

Christopher Cross's Return

MdHR M 3218-41

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

March 2, 1778

Andrew Rentch's Return

MdHR M 3218-42

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

April 1, 1778

Joseph Sprigg's Return

MdHR M 3218-43

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County, Upper Old Town Hundred

March 16, 1778

Samuel Barritt's Certificate

MdHR M 3218-44

(Oaths of Fidelity) Washington County

April 17, 1779

Dunkards and Mennonite Book, Joseph Chaplin's

Return

MdHR M 3218-45

Governor and Council

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Certificate of Subscription to the Oath of Allegiance to the Congress)

February 23, 1778

Certificate of Thomas Harwood

MdHR M 3218-47

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Certificate of Subscription to the Oath of Allegiance to the Congress)

Certificate of Jonathan Hudson

MdHR M 3218-48

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Certificate of Subscription to the Oath of Allegiance to the Congress)

February 27, 1778

Certificate of Thomas Richardson and Nicholas

Lingan

MdHR M 3218-49

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Certificate of Subscription to the Oath of Allegiance to the Congress)

May 11, 1778

Certificate of Dr. Walter Smith, Jr. and

Richard Henly Courts.

MdHR M 3218-50

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Certificate of Subscription to the Oath of Allegiance to the Congress)

June 16, 1778

Certificate of Edward Fox

MdHR M 3218-51

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Form of Certificate of Subscription to the Oath of Fidelity Administered by Governor and Council)

March, 1778

MdHR M 3218-52

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Oaths of Fidelity)

January 29, 1779

Matthias Bordley

Published in Archives of Maryland, Volume 21,

p. 287

MdHR M 3218-53

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Oaths of Fidelity)

April, 1778

Richard Thomas, Gerrard Hopkins, William

Hopkins, John Plummer, and Richard Waters

Published in Archives of Maryland, Volume 21

pp. 13, 16, 22, and 28

MdHR M 3218-54

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Oaths of Fidelity)

March 2, 1778

Allen Quynn to Council

Depositions of individuals who had failed to

take the Oath of Fidelity

MdHR M 3218-55

A CYCLOPEDIA

OF

AMERICAN MEDICAL BIOGRAPHY

COMPRISING THE LIVES OF EMINENT

DECEASED PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

FROM

1610 to 1910

BY

HOWARD A. KELLY, M. D.

ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS

VOLUME I

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON

W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY

1912

Virginia appointed to report upon anesthetics, which they did in a full and valuable paper entitled Report on the Utility and Safety of Anesthetic Agents (The Stethoscope, vol. i, April, 1851). He was an extensive contributor to medical literature and published reports of many of his most interesting cases.

He died in Richmond in 1865.

The following are some of his contributions to medical literature:

Aneurysm of both Femoral Arteries Cured by Ligature. (American Journal of Medical Sciences, vol. xii, 1847.)

Dislocation of the Femur into the Foramen Ovale probably Complicated with Fracture of the Acetabulum, Etc. (Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. iv, 1854.)

Surgical Reports. Ibid iii, 1856.)

Excision of an Osteosarcomatous Tumor of the Inferior Maxilla. Ibid iv, 1857.)

R. M. S.

Gibson, William (1788-1868).

Scientist, scholar, artist, musician, traveller—some one should write a life of him says Dr. Mumford in his Medicine in America; and if the diary which William Gibson continued for sixty years and which ran to 150 volumes could be found, every side of him could be written up.

He was born in Baltimore on March 14, 1788, one of twin boys, and was educated at St. Johns College, Annapolis, and at Princeton, leaving before his class graduated.

He began to study medicine with Dr. John Owen of Baltimore and in 1806 heard lectures at the University of Pennsylvania. Here, as at college, his refreshing frankness spoke out on occasion: he was afraid of no one.

He did not stay long in Philadelphia. In 1806 he took his bachelor's degree from Princeton and left for four years in Europe. The first three were given to Edinburgh where he took his M. D. in 1809 with a thesis De forma ossium gentilitia and John Bell was his master in surgery. That same year he went to London and followed Sir Charles Bell, who became his friend. He took also to painting and studied under Robert Haydon, the eccentric artist then busied on Bell's great work On the Hand. He added to this, music, ornithology, botany, fishing and boxing, so he enjoyed splendid health, but with all these distractions he was a brilliant student. Astley Cooper loved and predicted great things of him taking him on his journeyings about England.

The Peninsular War was then raging and Gibson entered with the greatest enthusiasm. In December, [UNK], he with some friends chartered a transport and sailed for the scene of the fighting and was in time to see the battle of Corunna where his friend Sir John Moore was killed. Six years later he was travelling in the neighborhood of Waterloo and took part in the battle, seeing much hard fighting and receiving a slight wound. Indeed, he was an ubiquitous person, after that he returned to London and in 1810 sailed for America. He had scarcely settled at his old home in Baltimore when he became interested in establishing a medical department for the University of Maryland, and in 1811, with sundry other spirits of kindred ambition, succeeded in launching the new school, himself in the chair of surgery. And at this time he was only twenty-three! The school throve apace and Gibson as a bold original operator seems to have been a great attraction. As he grew in experience he acquired a vast knowledge of and intimacy with the fine arts, literature, history, politics and men which, with his direct, homely, convincing way of lecturing captivated his hearers. It fell to his lot to do an operation which made him famous. In 1812 he tied for aneurysm the common iliac artery—an operation never before performed on the living, a proceeding almost as bold

and original as Astley Cooper's ligature of the aorta, five years later but also unsuccessful.

Two years later we were again at war with Great Britain and Gibson operated on Winfield Scott after Lundy's Lane and extracted a bullet. He saw the repulse of the British at Baltimore and from all this found abundant material for his surgical skill. Eight years he held the chair of surgery in Baltimore and after the retirement of Physick, the same chair in the University of Pennsylvania.

Before the founding of the Maryland School he had married Sarah Charlotte Hollingsworth and became in time the father of three sons and two daughters. Later on he married a second wife and had three children. The careful recorder adds he was five feet seven inches tall, broad and round-shouldered.

In Philadelphia, Gibson had a long and honorable career. For nearly thirty years he divided the surgical honors with George [McClellan, and it was not until 1855 that advancing age compelled him to retire from teaching. During his active years he produced his best book, The Institutes and Practice of Surgery, which for eight editions was a deservedly popular textbook. But there were other productions which are better worth reading to-day: Sketches of Prominent Surgeons, Rambles in Europe, Eminent Belgian Physicians and Surgeons, and his numerous addresses before the University students.

He had one hobby—to lead a crusade against tobacco; and became vice-president of an anti-tobacco society, though in other respects he liked the good things of life. But perhaps from the beginning what astounded people most was his absolute frankness. He published his surgical failures and told how in four cases he ruptured axillary arteries and the patients died. But, on the other hand, he had the unique experience of twice doing successfully Cesarean section on the same woman, the life of the mother and of both children being saved. Of his remarkable memory one admirer tells how he made an off-hand bet that he could quote 300 lines of Virgil taken at random, and reeled off the hexameters until his audience begged him to stop.

He withdrew from the university at the age of sixty-seven, having filled the professor's chair thirty-six years, and for thirteen years longer—a keen bright-eyed old man—he watched the busy world. It was a tumultuous time for retired old age. However, he saw the end of the War of the Rebellion and resumed his travels when it was over and continued them until he died in Savannah in the winter of 1868.

Among his writings are:

Rambles in Europe in 1839, Philadelphia, 1839.

Lectures Introductory to a Course on Surgery, various pamphlets on this subject published at intervals in Philadelphia, from 1822 to 1850.

(From Medicine in America, 1903. Dr. J. G. Mumford.)

Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., 1849.

Med. and Surg. Reporter, Phila., 1868.

Richmond and Louisville Med. Jour., Louisville, 1869.

Reminiscences. Busey, Wash., D. C., 1895.

Med. in Amer. Dr. J. G. Mumford, Phila., 1903.

Hist. Med. Dpt. of the Univ. of Penn. Dr. Carson, Phila., 1869.

Gihon, Albert Leary (1833-1901),

Albert Leary Gihon, a naval surgeon, was born in Philadelphia September 28 1833 and received the degree of A. B. at the Central High School of that city and graduated in medicine at the Philadelphia College of Medicine and Surgery in 1852. Princeton conferred upon him the degree of A. M. in 1854. In the following year he entered the United States Navy as assistant surgeon and made several sea voyages, being in 1861 promoted to the rank of surgeon. During the greater part of the Civil War he was on duty in European waters cruising after Confederate privateers. In 1872 he was appointed medical [UNK]