Captain Berry's Will
Debauchery, Miscegenation, & Family Strife
Among 18th Century Gentry
Endnotes
1 Capt. Berry's guests discuss a balloon
ascent in Prince George's County by Peter Carnes. A year before, the Montgolfier
brothers began the balloon craze in Paris, where the peace negotiations
were being conducted. See: Peter Lyon, "When Man First Left the Earth,"
in Horizon, September 1958, Volume 1, Number 1, pp. 114-128.
2 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
THE TAX (Assessment Reccord) 1796, Personal Property, MSA C 1162-22 and
(Assessment Record) 1796, Real Property, MSA C 1162-23.
3 "The Foundations of Social Order: Local
Government in Colonial Maryland," in Bruce C. Daniels, ed., Town and Country:
Essays on the Structure of Local Government in the American Colonies (Middletown,
Ct., 1978), pp. 98-99.
4 Richard Walsh, "The Era of the Revolution,"
Part II of Walsh and Fox, ed., Maryland: A History (Annapolis, 1983), pp.
133 & 135.
5 Gregory A. Stiverson, Poverty in a Land
of Plenty: Tenancy in Eighteenth-Century Maryland (Baltimore & London,
1977), p. 119.
6 LAND OFFICE (Debt Book) 1769, 25 FR, p.
4, MSA S 12-111; (Debt Book) 1769, 35 PG, p. 5, MSA S 12-154.
7 PREROGATIVE COURT (Wills) 1769-1770, 37:
167 Jeremiah's Will MSA S 538-53; (Inventories) 102:238 MSA S534-102
8 PREROGATIVE COURT (Wills) 1769-1770, 37:
167 Jeremiah's Will MSA S 538-53.
9 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Wills) 1770-1793, T#1:197, MSA C 1326-3. William Berry’s will devises
all 3000 acres.
10 Council of Maryland in Archives of Maryland,
XXI: 63, 242.
11 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Levy Book)
1760-94, B, p. 185, 1770 Nov. Ct., Anne Warman, Bastardy; Stephen Warman,
Security, £ 3.0.0, MSA C 1245-2.
12 PREROGATIVE COURT (Wills)
1775-1777, 40:421 Josias Marshall’s Will MSA S 538-59. Patricia Shawker
identified the Marshalls.
13 Council of Maryland in Archives of Maryland,
XLIII: 203.
14 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Marriage
Licenses) 1777-1797, p. 28 [December 22, 1783], 2 [November 9,1777], MSA
C 1260-1.
15 MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Proceedings)
March Court 1778, p. 45, MSA C 1137-1. R. Lee Van Horn, Out of the Past:
Prince Georgeans & Their Land (Riverdale, Md., 1976): 186, 217.
16 PROVINCIAL COURT (Judgments) 1756, BT
#1: 274, MSA S 551-59.
17 PREROGATIVE COURT (Wills) 1734-1735,
21:20, James Greenfield's will, MSA S 538-31.
18 An Inventory of Maryland State Papers
I: The Era of the American Revolution, 1775-1789 (Annapolis, 1977), #4,000,
1777, Apr. 2. Appointed.
19 Effie Gwynn Bowie, Across the Years in
Prince George's County (Richmond, 1947), p. 636.
21
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY (Land Records) 1791-1793, JRM#1: 507-10, MSA C 1237-34.
22 James Greenfield's will, in PREROGATIVE
COURT (Wills)1734-1735, 21:20. MSA S 538-31.
23 Papenfuse et al., A Biographical Dictionary
of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, Vol. 1: A-H, (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1979., p. 122.
24 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURT (Judgment Record)
November Court 1718 - November Court 1721, passim, MSA C 91-7, 91-8, 91-9,
91-10.
25 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURT (Land Records)
1724-1728, SY:21, MSA C 97-13. MONTGOMERY COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Estate
Record) 1797-1802, D: 297, MSA C 1138-5.
26 MONTGOMERY COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Estate
Record) 1788-1797, C: 243, MSA C 1138-3.
27 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Marriage
Licenses) 1777-97, 1818-26: 40, MSA C 1260-1 & MSA C1260-4.
28 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Wills)1770-1793, T#1: 376. MSA C 1326-3.
29 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF THE TAX (Assessment Record) Real Property, 1796: 18, MSA C 1162-22.
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Administration Accounts) 1792-1803,
ST#3: 113, MSA C 1144-7
30 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF THE TAX (Assessment Record) Real Property, 1796: 7, MSA C 1162-22. PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories) 1796-1800, ST#3: 317, MSA
C 1228-14.
31 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF THE TAX (Assessment Record) Real Property, 1796: 29, MSA C 1162-22.
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories) ST#3: 186, MSA C
1228-14.
32 MONTGOMERY COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Estate
Record) 1807-1809, F: 8, MSA C 1138-8.
33 MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE
TAX (Assessment Record) Real & Personal Property, 1798-1812: 33, 90,
MSA C 1110-2.
34 CHARLES COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills)
1818-1825, HB 14: 76, MSA C 681-15. CHARLES COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories)
1818-1822: 200, MSA C 665-17.
35 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Administration Accounts) 1777-1795, ST #1: 208-10, MSA C 1144-4. William
Kilty, Laws of Maryland, 2: April 1787, Chapter XIV. PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
REGISTER OF WILLS (Administration Bonds, Original) 1786, box 23, folder
35, MSA C 1147-23.
36 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Inventories) 1789-1796, ST #2: 233, "Kindred refused signing," MSA C 1228-9.
37 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Administration Accounts) 1777-1795, ST #1: 207, MSA C 1144-4.
38 Bureau of the Census, Heads of Families
At the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Maryland,
(Washington, 1907), p. 98.
39 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Land Records)
1794-1795, JRM 3: 127, MSA C 1237-36.
40 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF THE TAX (Assessment Record) Personal Property, 1800 & 1802, MSA
C 1162-25 & 28. He is William Warman Berry in the Census of 1800 but
remains William Berry Warman in the Assessments until 1804.
41 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Marriage
Licenses) 1797-1817: 18, MSA C 1260-2.
42 Archives of Maryland, New Series, I.
43 PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Estate Papers) MSA C2119-9. Dr. Papenfuse made this discovery.
44 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF THE TAX (Assessment Record) 1807, Real Property: 15, MSA C 1162-33;
(Assessment Record) 1807, Personal Property: 16. MSA C 1162- 34.
45 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Marriage
Licenses) 1797-1817: 36, MSA C 1260-2.
46 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Inventories) 1798-1815, TT#1: 309-310, MSA C 1228-15; (Distributions)
1812-1815, TT#4: 146, MSA C 1201-5.
47 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Distributions) 1812-1815, TT#4: 155-6; 26, 146, MSA C 1201-5.
48 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Distributions)1812-1815, TT#4: 276, MSA C 1201-5.
49 MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE
TAX (Assessment Record) 1793-1797, 1798-1812, 1813-1830, MSA C 1110-1,
2, & 3. MONTGOMERY COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Estate Record) 1811-1814,
H: 250; 1818-1821, M: 39, MSA C 1138-10 & 14. |