Niles' Weekly Register

Niles' Weekly Register
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 482
Release: 1836
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Containing political, historical, geographical, scientifical, statistical, economical, and biographical documents, essays and facts: together with notices of the arts and manu factures, and a record of the events of the times.

Colonial Maryland Naturalizations

Colonial Maryland Naturalizations
Author: Jeffrey A. Wyand
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1975
Genre: Maryland
ISBN: 0806306807

The chief interest in this work rests with the naturalizations in Part III, which were compiled from Maryland's Provincial Court documents in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Between 1742 and 1775 upwards of 1,000 naturalizations were granted in Maryland. Data in the naturalization records presented here includes the identifying number of the record, date of naturalization, date of communion, volume and page of the Provincial Court Judgments, name, county or town of residence, nationality, church membership, location of church, and witnesses to communion. Place names, clergy, and parish locations are identified in the appendix.

A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789

A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789
Author: Edward C. Papenfuse
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801890970

This unique historical and genealogical resource draws on the extraordinarily intact legislative, judicial, religious, and personal records of members of the first Maryland legislature. The two-volume set contains profiles of nearly fifteen hundred men who served in the state's legislature in the first 150 years after Maryland's founding.The major public and private aspects of each legislator's career are quickly discernible: family background, marriage, children, social status, religious affiliation, occupation, other offices held, and military service. Many entries include a brief summary of a legislator's stance on public and private issues. A final category, wealth at death, inventories the legislator's estate and notes any significant changes in wealth between first election and death.

Land Office and Prerogative Court Records of Colonial Maryland

Land Office and Prerogative Court Records of Colonial Maryland
Author: Elisabeth Hartsook
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1996
Genre: Archives
ISBN: 0806301724

About two-thirds of this work is devoted to a history of the land administered by colonial Maryland, with a detailed inventory of Patents, Warrants, Proprietary Leases, Rent Rolls, Debt Books, etc. The remainder consists of a study of the colonial Prerogative Court, which had control over probate matters.

Managing Historical Records Programs

Managing Historical Records Programs
Author: Bruce William Dearstyne
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780742502833

Historical records are a focus and collecting area for many historical societies, history museums, and other historical agencies. Yet many historical records programs face special challenges and needs, including inadequate resource levels, physical preservation problems, and underdeveloped documentation, appraisal, and collecting policies. In Managing Historical Records Programs, Bruce Dearstyne's goal is to foster stronger, more vibrant historical records programs by introducing the basics of archival work to historical agency personnel. He describes strategies, approaches, principles, and best practices of strong programs while providing lots of examples, checklists, and appendixes that help solve complex problems. An important resource for anyone considering starting a historical records program or wishing to strengthen an existing one. Book jacket.

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1414
Release: 1952
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)