Robert Lyon Mayall papers
Abstract
This collection consists of four typescripts of family history of the ancestors of Robert Lyon Mayall. The information in the typescripts was compiled from primary sources in the Maryland Historical Society.
Dates
- undated
Creator
- Mayall, Robert Lyon (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
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Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Robert Lyon Mayall, June 3, 1991.
Scope and Contents
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.
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'
Creator
- Mayall, Robert Lyon (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Robert Lyon Mayall papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- 2020-03-18: Manually entered into ArchivesSpace by Mallory Herberger.
Repository Details
Part of the H. Furlong Baldwin Library Repository
H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Center for History and Culture
610 Park Avenue
Baltimore MD 21201 United States
4106853750
specialcollections@mdhistory.org