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St.
Mary's County Land Ownership: 1637-1799
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Comments
and Sources
All
of the early land records of St. Mary's County were lost
when the courthouse burned in 1832. This project attempts
to recreate as much of this information as possible.
The
use of land records, especially when marriage records are
missing, is a valuable tool for researchers. The majority
of the time, land went from family member to family member.
In addition, by being able to place the property in its
proper location will indicate who lived nearby. Remember
that transportation in the early days was limited and people
generally married someone in the neighborhood. It is unusual
to find, for instance, someone from Resurrection Hundred
marrying someone from St. Michael’s Hundred.
Every
effort has been made to place the tracts in the proper Hundred,
but we’re sure that some mistakes have occurred. In some
cases, there was little or no information on the location
of some of the tracts in the extant written records and
in some cases, the original sources (listed below) contained
errors as well.
The
names of landowners and tracts have been standardized to
the extent possible. In some cases, properties had several
different names in which case they were assigned an "alias
name". The "alias names" were grouped together
and listed under the predominant name of the property. Then,
of course, we have the issue of different properties being
given the same name. For instance, there were three different
parcels located in three different Hundreds, called "Rich
Neck."
Additional
information and corrections will, as always, be appreciated.
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Sources:
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Archives
of Maryland Online, http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/megafile/msa/special/sc2900/sc2908/html/index.html,pages
as noted
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Archives
of Maryland Online, Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665-66
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| Baldwin,
Jane. The Maryland Calendar of Wills, Genealogical
Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1997 |
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Chronicles
of St. Mary's, St. Mary's County Historical Society,
Leonardtown, MD; volume and page as noted
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| "St.
Mary's County Rent Roll, 1707", Chronicles of St.
Mary's, St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown,
MD, Vol. 25, No. 11 |
| Coldham,
Peter Wilson. Settlers of Maryland 1731-1750, Genealogical
Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1996 |
| Coldham,
Peter Wilson. Settlers of Maryland 1751-1765, Genealogical
Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1996 |
| Coldham,
Peter Wilson. Settlers of Maryland 1766-1783, Genealogical
Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1996 |
| Fenwick,
Charles E, Sr.. "A List of Alienations and Transfers
in St. Mary's County from the Sixth day of June, 1786 to the
Seventh day of March, 1829", Chronicles of St. Mary's
, 1970-1984 (included in each issue) |
| Jennings,
Tom, Baltimore, Maryland, via e-mail |
| Himmelheber,
Peter, "The Soil Stiff and Poor, St. Mary's County's
Proprietary Manors ", Leonardtown, MD, August 1999 |
| Himmelheber,
Peter, "Papist Lands in St. Mary's County Anno 1760",
Chronicles of St. Mary's Vol. 49, No.1 |
| Himmelheber,
Peter, "St. Johns to St. Josephs 1653-2001", Leonardtown,
MD, July 2001 |
| Himmelheber,
Peter, "Communion of Saints: Original Land Grants on
the Northeast Side of Bretons Bay", Leonardtown, MD,
April, 2002 |
| Reno,
Linda Davis. Debt Books of St. Mary's County, Maryland
1753-1758, St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown,
MD 1995 |
| Reno,
Linda Davis. St. Mary's County Patent Records 1635-1946.
Transcribed and Indexed for the St. Mary's County Historical
Society, 1995 |
| Reno,
Linda Davis and Joann Ellis Humphries. St. Mary's County,
Maryland, Wills 1776-1791 JJ#1 and HH#1 |
| Reno,
Linda Davis and Joann Ellis Humphries. St. Mary's County,
Maryland, Wills 1791-1802 JJ#2 |
| St.
Mary's County , Maryland Rent Rolls, 1639-1771, TLC Genealogy,
Miami Beach, FL, 1993 |
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