United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

Contains correspondence, legal documents, and financial records of the Acosta, Moulton, and Ridgely families, as well as many other associated Maryland families.

Accounts of Captain Thomas Bourk's Company (Dorchester County); Colonel Richardson's Battalion, MD, Flying Camp, June-December 1776; also Job Brerewood's accounts of rents of land of James and Hugh Eceleston, 1808-1816.

This collection is primarily comprised of the business papers of Samuel Galloway (1720-1785) and his son-in-law James Cheston (1747-1798), who were both merchants based in West River, Maryland.

The collection consists of documents relating to several members of the Cohen family collected by Margaret Cohen. It includes material connected to Jacob I., Israel I., Colonel Mendes, Joshua I., Harriett, and Catharine Cohen.

Index to returns of officers (non-Maryland) of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1776.

One volume containing records of ship Defence, commissioned in 1776 for defence of Baltimore. Included are dimensions of ship, names of crew, and lists of equipment from the Revolutionary period, circa 1776-1777. The volume was compiled in 1896 from papers in the Land Office of Maryland by Philip D. Laird (1847-1920), member of Maryland Public Service Commission, lawyer, and Speaker of House of Delegates.

This collection contains letters written by the Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law (1776-1832) and several other acquaintances.

This collection contains scrapbooks kept by George W. Archer on Harford County historical material, primarily news clippings of articles by him in local papers.

This collection contains one original letter, manuscript copies of letters, and typed copies of letters from James McHenry and various other political and military leaders during the Revolutionary War. Also included is the diary of Captain Wilson Mile Cary, C.S.A., 1862-1864.

This collection contains five letters from James McHenry to his fiance and later wife, Margaret "Peggy" Caldwell, as well as one letter from Peggy to James, 1783-1789. Also included is an August 1776 letter to James McHenry from Dr. Benjamin Rush, James McHenry's 1781 commission from Congress as major, and an 1822 letter from John Eager Howard Jr. to his brother, Benjamin Chew Howard.