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Maryland History - St. Mary's County MD Historical Society Chronicles 1960-62

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Maryland History - St. Mary's County MD Historical Society Chronicles 1960-62 Bound collection of Chronicles of St. Mary’s, containing Volumes 8 through 10 of the journal published by the St. Mary’s County Historical Society in Leonardtown, Maryland, from 1960 through 1962. This substantial reference volume preserves three years of articles (36 articles total) on the colonial, maritime, military, religious, genealogical, and social history of St. Mary’s County and the Chesapeake Bay region. Also includes a large map and an extensive index of people and places in these issues. The contents offer extensive coverage of Maryland’s founding and early colonial period, including the 1634 establishment of the Maryland colony, St. Clement’s Island, Lord Baltimore, Sir George Calvert, Cecil Calvert, Sir Edmund Plowden, the New Albion charter, the Maryland Toleration tradition, Catholic settlement, Jesuit missions, and historic churches such as St. Aloysius Church and St. Francis Xavier Church. Family historians will find material concerning the Brent, Edelen, Gerard, Sewall, Coad, Tippett, Stone, Mudd, and Plowden families, along with numerous abstracts and references to wills of St. Mary’s County dating from 1662 through 1960. Several issues concentrate on the War of 1812 and the Chesapeake campaign, including British naval activity on the Patuxent River, logs of British ships, excerpts from Niles’ Weekly Register, the 1814 invasion of Maryland, and the British presence around the Pot

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