Philip Barton Key
MSA SC 3520-15169

Sources:

CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers) Union Bank of Georgetown, John C. Rives, and Edward Lloyd vs. Mary Tayloe Key, Virginia Key, Francis S. Key, Philip Barton Key, Charles Howard, Elizabeth Phoebe Howard, Daniel Turner, Anna Turner, Henry Steele, Maria Steele, Ellen Key, Alice Key, Charles Henry Key, Clarence Key, John R. Key, and John A. Smith, 1843, MdHR 17,898-11654 [MSA S512-14-11477, 1/39/3/90]
Note: one filing includes Philip Barton Key's signature.

Delaplaine, Edward S. Francis Scott Key Life and Times. New York: Biography Press, 1937.

"Dredful Tragedy." The New York Times, 28 February 1859.

Fontaine, Felix G. Trial of the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles for Shooting Philip Barton Key, Esq., U.S. District Attorney, of Washington, D.C. February 27th, 1859. New York: R.M. De Witt, 1859. Available online via Google Books.

"Key, Francis Scott." Dictionary of American Biography, vol. v. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961, 362-363.

Sassaman, Richard. "The Washington Tragedy." American History 33, no. 4 (1998), 44-52.

Swanberg, W. A. Sickles the Incredible. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956.

U.S. Congress. Senate Executive Journal. 25th. Cong., 1st Sess., 27 January 1846.

U.S. Congress. Senate Executive Journal. 33rd Cong., 1st Sess, 14 March 1854.

U.S. Congress. Senate Executive Journal. 35th Cong., 1st Sess., 30 March 1858.
 

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