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Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

Maynard land patents

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2704
Abstract

This collection contains patents to various Fredrick and Prince Georges County properties purchased by Thomas and Nathan Maynard from 1735-1790. Also included are genealogical notes on the Maynard family, "Securities" and "Belongings" lists, 1921, of Eleanor Maynard, as well as Ms. Maynard's will, 1918.

Dates: 1735-1921

McHenry-Keyser papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3279
Abstract The McHenry-Keyser papers, 1857-1998, primarily contain the correspondence of Ellen Carr McHenry Keyser, the great-granddaughter of James McHenry, revolutionary and signer of the United States Constitution. The collection includes letters from Mrs. Keyser's friends and relatives, including her father, James Howard McHenry, and husband, Robert Brent Keyser, as well as outgoing letters to her husband and daughter, Juliana Brent Keyser Clark. Additional correspondence to Juliana's husband,...
Dates: 1857 January 6-1998 November

Morris papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0190
Abstract

This collection consists of the personal and business correspondence of Judge Thomas J. Morris, John Morris, and Joseph Morris Cushing, circa 1815-1955.

Dates: 1815 - 1955

Morrison and related family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2941
Abstract

Families represented in this collecton include Morrison, Talbot, Daugherty, Lovelace, Jessop, and Britton. Materials include genealogical notes and charts, correspondence, wills, military orders, journals, account books, legal papers, and real estate contracts.

Dates: 1852-1960

Perine family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0645
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers of David Maulden Perine, his sons William Buchanan Perine, E. Glenn Perine, and E. Glenn's son Washington Perine. Topics covered include legal practice, especially estate settlement in Baltimore, 1820s-1880s; Bank of Maryland affair, 1834; and Washington, Glenn, and Perine family histories.

Dates: 1783-1941

Philpot-Randall family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2816
Abstract

This collection consists of manuscript items, legal documents, and correspondence belonging to the Philpot and Randall families, 1726-1936.

Dates: 1726-1936; Majority of material found within 1850-1900

Pleasants genealogical collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2020-006-LIB
Content Description

This collections contains primarily genealogical correspondence as well as manuscript materials related to the Pleasants family and related families such as Tudor, Poultney, Curzon, and Jencks.

Dates: circa 1850-1950

Raymond B. Clark, Jr. collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2815
Abstract

This collection consists of genealogical data compiled by Raymond B. Clark, Jr., and Adele Moody, great-great-granddaughter of Joshua Johnson (1742-1802).

Dates: 1887-1988

Rebecca Lloyd Nicholson Post Shippen collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 3144
Abstract

The collection primarily contains letters written to Rebecca Shippen as well as ephemera saved by the Shippen family, such as church sermons.

Dates: 1889-1924

Redwood collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1530
Abstract

The Redwood collection includes correspondence of Mary Buchanan Coale Redwood (1879-1940), genealogical correspondence and research notes (1907-1935), estate papers (1815-1917), and diaries and notebooks (1806-1865) of members of the Buchanan, Coale, Dorsey, Proud, Hopkinson and related families.

Dates: 1694-1940