Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Thomas Johnson (1732-1819)
MSA SC 3520-743
Governor of Maryland, 1777-1779

Sources:

Newspapers/Journals-

Obituary, The Maryland Gazette, 18 November 1819.

Delaplaine, Edward S.  "Washington and Johnson:  Maryland's First Governor, Soldier, Jurist, Legislator, Executive, Was an Ardent Friend of the First President," The National Republic, July 1927.

Fauntleroy, Sally Conrad.  "The Man that Nominated George Washington." The Mentor 16 (February 1928): 38-40.

Other Sources-

Adams, Charles Francis.  The Works of John Adams.

Archives of Maryland, LXI.

Delaplaine, Edward S. Life of Thomas Johnson.  New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1927.

House Journal, February Session, 1777.

Journals of the Continental Congress, II.  Washington, 1905.

Maryland State Archives FREDERICK COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) 1819 C898-8 MdHR 40285-8 liber
        HS 2, f. 312.

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Biographical Files) Governor Thomas Johnson File, MSA SC 1138-743, 2/11/12/42.

Papenfuse, Edward C., et al., "Thomas Johnson," in A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, Vol. II, I-Z.
        Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. 495-497.

Senate Journal, November Session, 1779.

Senate Journal, March Session, 1780.

White, Frank F., Jr. The Governors of Maryland, 1777-1970.  Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1970.

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