The main purpose of this work is to chronicle and categorize the life experiences of 519 persons who entered Maryland as indentured servants or, to a lesser extent, as convicts forcibly transported. The text itself is composed of solidly researched sketches of Maryland servants and convicts and their descendants, including 84 that are traced to the third generation or beyond. Lest genealogists conclude that this work is a mere recitation of statistics, we hasten to add that the text itself is composed of solidly researched sketches of Maryland servants and convicts and their descendants, including 102 that are traced to the third generation or beyond. If your Maryland ancestor is among the following, rest assured that you will be working from the most we know about them to date:
"The families in this volume were found in many counties, but primarily Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties."--Page ix.
This volume primarily covers families of Dorchester County, including: Andrew/Andrews, Bowdle, Connerly, Covey, Dagg, Dail, Denwood, Dorsey, Geoghegan, Hackett, Henry, Hicks, Magee/Mcghee, McNemara, Medford, Merchant, Mowbray, Muir, Navey, ...
Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Volume 7
Ancestral Colonial Families: Genealogy of the Welsh and Hyatt Families of Maryland and Their Kin
Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Colonial Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland
This volume covers Kent County.
Nearly all the families in this volume settled in Old Somerset County, which was eventually split into the counties of Worcester, Wicomico and Somerset Counties.
Includes families of Bacon, Beall, Beasley, Cheney, Duckett, Dunbar, Ellyson, Elmore, Graves, Heydon, Howard, Jacob, Morris, Nuthall, Odell, Peerce, Reeder, Ridgley, Prather, Sprigg, Wesson, Williams, and collateral kin.