Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)
John Merryman (1824-1881)
MSA SC 3520-1543
Sources:
Archival records -
Ex Parte Merryman case materials
Maryland State Archives CHANCERY COURT
(Chancery Papers) 27 June 1848, 9366: Luther Littig vs. John Merryman,
Ann L. Merryman, Richard Emory, Ann Emory, Henry Gittings, Elizabeth R.
Gittings, Eleanor A. Bosley, Ann G. Merryman, Nicholas M.B. Emory, Anna
Emory, Thomas L. Emory, and Richard Emory. BA. Trust estate
under will of Nicholas M. Bosley - Bellevue, Hayfields. Accession
No: 17,898-9366. MSA S512-9283, 1/38/4/93. Includes last will and
testament of Nicholas M. Bosley, from whom John Merryman inherited Hayfields.
(24 pages)
Maryland State Archives GOVERNOR
(Miscellaneous Papers) MSA S 1274-89-18, Document 3, 1/7/5/72
Maryland State Archives U.S. CIRCUIT COURT FOR MARYLAND (Minutes) MSA
SM192-9, 1860-1873, SR 4550-2
Maryland State Archives U.S. CENUS BUREAU
(Census Record, MD) John Merryman, Jr., 1850, Baltimore County, District
1 page 432, MSA SM 61-131, M 1484
Maryland State Archives U.S. CENUS
BUREAU (Census Record, MD) Nicholas R. Merryman and Ann Merryman, 1850
Slave Schedule, Baltimore County, District 1, MSA SM 61-158, M 1504-3
Maryland State Archives U.S. CENUS BUREAU
(Census Record, MD) John Merryman, 1860, Baltimore County, Cockeysville/District
8 pp. 488-489, MSA SM 61-196, M 7213-6
Maryland State Archives U.S. CENUS BUREAU
(Census Record, MD) John Merryman, 1860 Slave Schedule, Baltimore County,
Cockeysville/District 8 Page 93, MSA SM 61-228, M 7229-4
Maryland State Archives U.S. CENUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) John Merryman,
1870, Baltimore County, Cockeysville/District 8 page 405, MSA SM 61-262,
M 7234 (Note: Microfilm is very poor.)
Maryland State Archives U.S. CENUS BUREAU
(Census Record, MD) John Merryman, 1880, Baltimore County, ED 240 Sheet
28 Line 1, MSA SM 61-307, M 4732
Maryland State Archives BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER
OF WILLS (Wills, Original) John Merryman, 1881, Box 1541 [MSA T 1764-3,
0/38/11/53]
Maryland State Archives BALTIMORE COUNTY
REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories, Original) John Merryman, December 1881,
Box 499, MSA T1205, 2/58/9/24
Articles -
"Arrest of John Merryman, Esq., by
the Military." The Baltimore Sun, 27 May 1861. MSA SC
2852-1-105, 03/42/12/30.
"United States Court. Important
Proceedings. The Case of John Merryman, Esq." The Baltimore
Sun, 28 May 1861. MSA SC 2852-1-105, 03/42/12/30.
"The Habeas Corpus Case: Gen.
Cadwallader Refuses To Allow The Process Of The Court To Be Served Upon
Him." The South, 28 May 1861. MSA SC 3768-2-1, 3/44/8/49.
"The Habeas Corpus Case of John Merryman,
Esq." The Baltimore Sun, 29 May 1861. MSA SC 2852-1-105,
03/42/12/30.
"The Suspension of the Writ of Habeas
Corpus." The Baltimore Sun, 31 May 1861. MSA SC 2852-1-105,
03/42/12/30.
"The Merryman Case: Opinion
of Chief Justice Taney." The Baltimore Sun, 3 June 1861.
MSA SC 2852-1-105, 03/42/12/30.
"The Merryman Case: Decision
of Chief Justice Taney." Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser,
3 June 1861. MSA SC 4104-1-2, 03/48/04/24.
"The Habeas Corpus Case." Baltimore
American and Commercial Advertiser, 4 June 1861. MSA SC 4104-1-2,
3/48/4/24.
"The Indictment for Treason Against
John Merryman." The Baltimore Sun, 11 July 1861. MSA
SC 2852-1-105, 03/42/12/30.
"Proceedings of the Courts:
The Indictment for Treason Against John Merryman." Baltimore American
and Commercial Advertiser, 12 July 1861. MSA SC 4104-1-?,
3/48/4/25.
"Death of John Merryman." The
Baltimore Sun, 16 November 1881. From microfilm at Maryland
State Law Library.
"Merryman Family." Maryland Historical
Magazine 10 (1915): 176-185; 286-299.
"Ex Parte Merryman: Proceedings of
Court Day, May 26, 1961." Maryland Historical Magazine 56
(1961): 384-398.
Wisner,
Vivian. "Improving Maryland's Agriculture, 1840-1860." Maryland
Historical Magazine 64 (1969): 105-132.
Rising, Teri. "'Best
Cultivated Farm' The Backstory of Hayfields, Nicholas Merryman Bosley,
and the Lafayette Premium of 1824." History Trails 43: 1&2 (Winter
2011-12).
Books -
Adams, James Truslow ed. Dictionary
of American History. 5 vols. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1940.
Brown, George William. Baltimore
and the Nineteenth of April, 1861: A Study of War. Baltimore,
MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1887.
Brugger, Robert J. Maryland A
Middle Temperament. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1988.
Lewis, Walker. Without Fear or Favor:
A Biography of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
National Biographical Publishing Company.
The
Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland and District
of Columbia.
Baltimore,
MD: National Biographical Publishing Company, 1879.
Papenfuse, Edward C., Earl Arnett, and
Robert J. Brugger. Maryland: A New Guide to the Old Line
State.
Baltimore,
MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1999.
Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Maryland.
3 vols. Hatboro, PA: Tradition Press, 1967.
-----. History of Baltimore City and
County. 2 vols. Baltimore, MD: Regional Publishing
Company, 1971.
Steiner, Bernard C. Life of Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice
of the United States Supreme Court. 1922.
Reprint, Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1970.
Swisher, Carl Brent. Roger B.
Taney. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935.
-----. The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme
Court of the United States. Vol. V: The Taney Period
1836-64.
New York: Macmillan
Publishing Co., Inc. 1974.
Excerpt:
pp. 841-855.
Web sources -
"Civil Liberties
After 9/11" at PBS.com
"What Was Lincoln's Record
on Civil Liberties?" from the History News Network
History
of the Taney Court, 1836-1864, from the Supreme Court Historical Society
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