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Legal documents

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on documents having legal relevance in general. Works on documents written in order to give expression to a legal act or agreement for the purpose of creating, securing, modifying, or terminating a right, or for the purpose of furnishing evidence of a right, are entered under the heading Legal instruments.

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

Black family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2745
Abstract This collection consists of papers (1800-1916) concerning the Black Family of New Castle County, Delaware, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Cecil County, Maryland. Papers consist chiefly of financial, land, and legal records. Also included are wills, household inventories, correspondence, Constitution and Minutes of Charlestown Presbyterian Church dated 1823-41, miscellaneous genealogical material concerning the Alexander, Black, Evans, Hasson, Moore, Patterson and Meek, Tuft, and related...
Dates: 1800-1916
Found in: H. Furlong Baldwin Library / Black family papers

Bosely papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0083
Abstract

This collection contains deeds, indentures, plats, wills, etc. of (Mary) Elizabeth Bosley, Dr. Richard Emory, Anna Warfield, S. Davis Warfield.

Dates: 1717 - 1919
Found in: H. Furlong Baldwin Library / Bosely papers

Brandau papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2842
Abstract

This collection contains personal correspondence, report cards, postcards, holiday cards, certificates, business correspondence, receipts, and stock records of Baltimore lawyer Clement Rider Brandau, Jr. (b. 1929) and his wife Jean Kolb Brandau (b. 1933).

Dates: 1936-1983
Found in: H. Furlong Baldwin Library / Brandau papers

Buzby family manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3231
Abstract

This collection contains land deeds, leases, inheritance documents, and a letter pertaining to the Buzby family of Baltimore, 1850-1923.

Dates: 1850-1923
Found in: H. Furlong Baldwin Library / Buzby family manuscript collection

Calvert and Darnall family wills

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0172
Abstract

Extracts from British archives of data pertaining to Calvert and Darnall families, mainly Prerogative Court of Canterbury and High Court of justice. (Partly published in MHS Mag. 1926-27.)

Dates: undated
Found in: H. Furlong Baldwin Library / Calvert and Darnall family wills

Cecil County papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0231
Abstract

This collections contains legal records from the Cecil County, (Md.) Court, 1746-1831.

Dates: 1746-1831
Found in: H. Furlong Baldwin Library / Cecil County papers

Chase family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0969
Scope and Contents Photostatic copies of papers and letters to the Chase family of Maryland, particularly of Annapolis, spanning 1714-1855. Letters are to and from Reverend Richard Chase, Reverend Thomas Chase, Thomas Chase (1774-1826), Matilda Chase (d.1829), Judge Jeremiah Townley Chase (1748-1828), Judge Samuel Chase (1741-1811), and Ann Chase (1711-1852). There is also correspondence between Maryanne Caton, Robert G. Harper, and Miss Ann Chase and genealogical information on the Chase, Townley, and...
Dates: 1714-1855
Found in: H. Furlong Baldwin Library / Chase family papers

Cockey family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1782
Abstract

This collection contains one box of primarily land and legal documents regarding the Cockey family of Baltimore County, 1725-1908.

Dates: 1725-1908
Found in: H. Furlong Baldwin Library / Cockey family papers

Commodore Joshua Barney manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3168
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of Joshua Barney and his descendants. This includes correspondence, financial documents, land records, business papers, military service records, and more.

Dates: 1711 - 1978
Found in: H. Furlong Baldwin Library / Commodore Joshua Barney manuscript collection

Cooke papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0195
Abstract

Collection relates mostly to the business affairs of William Cooke, as attorney and tobaco commisson merchant; about 150 letters (1785-1819); accounts; papers on the settlement of the estates of John Cooke and Mrs. William Young and John O'Donnell.

Dates: 1750 - 1817
Found in: H. Furlong Baldwin Library / Cooke papers

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