George Plater, MSA SC 3520-995

Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

George Plater (1735-1792)
MSA SC 3520-995
Governor of Maryland, 1791-1792

1. Marian McKenna, "Sotterley, St. Mary's County," Maryland Historical Magazine, XLVI (September, 1951), 182.

2. Donnell M. Owings, His Lordship's Patronage (Baltimore, 1953), 160.

3. Archives of Maryland, XI, 202.

4. Ibid., 394-395.

5. Ella Lonn, "George Plater," Dictionary of American Biography, XIV, 648.

6. Maryland Gazette, February 14, 1792.

7. Proceedings of the Governor and Council, February 13, 1792.

8. Ibid., April 2, 1792.

9. Section 32, Constitution of 1776.

10. St. Mary's County Wills, JJ 2, ff. 22-24.