Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Anna Briggs Bentley (1796-1890)
MSA SC 3520-15905

Sources:


Archival Sources:

Monthly Meeting at the Clifts Collection, marriage certificates from Sandy Spring, West River, and Indian Springs meetings, marriage certificate, Joseph E Bentley and Anna Briggs, August 26, 1812, pp. 265-266 [MSA SC 2978, SCM 639-1].

Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting: Births, Deaths, and Membership, 1730-1895. Minutes, Women, 1811-1824 [MSA SC 2978, SCM 667-3].


Published Sources:

Foster, Emily, ed. American Grit: A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2002.


Newspaper Sources:

"Death of Mrs. Anna Bentley" Salem Daily News [Ohio], August 4, 1890, p. 4.


Other Sources:

Isaac Briggs, et. al. Briggs-Stabler Papers, 1793-1910. Maryland Historical Society collection no. MS 147.


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