Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Gassaway Watkins (1752-1840)
MSA SC 3520-16779 

Sources:

Archival Sources:

Adjutant General, Militia Appointments, 1794-1816, no. 2, [SM105-1].

Anne Arundel County Court, Marriage Licenses, 1777-1813, pp. 28, 35, MdHR 4752 [MSA C113-1, 1/1/11/27].

Compiled Service Record of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War, National Archives, NARA M881, from Fold3.com.

General Assembly, House of Delegates, Assessment Record, 1783, Anne Arundel County, West River Hundred, p.3 [MSA S1161-2-2, 1/4/5/45].

Maryland State Papers, Brown Books, “Stations for Provisions—Recruiting Service,” 2 April 1782, vol. 2, no. 66, MdHR 4609 [MSA S991-2, 1/6/5/3].

Pension of Gassaway Watkins, National Archives and Records Administration, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, NARA M804, W. 15857, from Fold3.com.

Return of the Maryland troops, 27 September 1776, from Fold3.com.

U.S. Federal Census, 1790, Anne Arundel County.

U.S. Federal Census, 1800, Anne Arundel County.

U.S. Federal Census, 1810, Anne Arundel County.

U.S. Federal Census, 1820, Anne Arundel County.

U.S. Federal Census, 1840, Anne Arundel County.

Published Sources:

Batt, Richard John. “The Maryland Continentals, 1780-1781.” PhD diss., Tulane University, 1974.

Burdick, Kim. “Rolling on the River: Delaware in the American Revolution.” 25 January 2017, Journal of the American Revolution.

The Constitution and Register of Membership of the General Society of the War of 1812, to June 1, 1908. Philadelphia: Society of the War of 1812, 1908.

Fernald, Jody R. “In Slavery and in Freedom: Oliver C. Gilbert and Edwin Warfield, Sr.” Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. 106, no. 2, Summer 2011, pp. 141-161.

Fredriksen, John C. The War of 1812 U.S. War Department Correspondence, 1812-1815. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, inc., 2016.

General Assembly, Session Laws, 1852, Archives of Maryland Online, vol. 615.

General Assembly, Session Laws, 1862, Archives of Maryland Online, vol. 532.

Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution, April 1775 to December 1783. Washington, D.C.: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914.

Journal of the House of Delegates, 1807, Archives of Maryland Online, vol. 555.

Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties, “Walnut Grove,” Howard County, HO-18.

Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution, Archives of Maryland Online, vol. 18.

National Register of Historic Places, “Richland Farm,” Howard County, Maryland, NR-1462.

O'Donnell, Patrick. Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016.

Register of the Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland brought down to February 22nd, 1897. Baltimore: A. Hoen and Company, 1897.

Steuart, Rieman. A History of the Maryland Line in the Revolutionary War. Towson, MD: Metropolitan Press, 1969.

Tacyn, Mark Andrew. “‘To the End:’ The First Maryland Regiment and the American Revolution.” PhD diss., University of Maryland College Park, 1999.

Warfield, Joshua Dorsey. The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland. Baltimore: Kohn and Pollock, 1905.

Whittemore, Henry. The Heroes of the American Revolution and their Descendants: Supplement to Section I: History of the Society Sons of the American Revolution. New York: The Heroes of the Revolution Publishing Company, 1898.

Newspapers:

“Twenty Dollars Reward,” Times; and District of Columbia Daily Advertiser, 26 June 1801.

Web Sources:

Find A Grave, "Col. Gassaway Watkins."

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