Mathias de Sousa
MSA SC 3520-2810

Fur Traders and Field Hands: Black in Manorial Maryland, 1634-1644 by Garry Wheeler Stone

King, Julia A., Edward Chaney, and Iris Carter Ford.  "Defining race and identity in early Md."  Baltimore Sun, 4 February 2001.

Bogen, David S.  "Mathias de Sousa;  Maryland's First Colonist of African Descent,"  Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Spring 2001), 68-85.

MSA Topic File MSA SC 1456-1387, 0/70/9/11

ORIGINAL RECORDS -

Listing Mathias de Sousa as a mulatto:
Flatbed Scanner
LAND OFFICE (Patent Record, Original) MSA S 920-1 ff. 19, 20, and 37
Zuetschel Scanner
LAND OFFICE (Patent Record, Original) MSA S 920-1 ff. 19, 20, 37, and 38
Liber 1
brought to province in 1633, recorded on December 5, 1639

LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) MSA S 11-2 ff. 18, 19, 20, 37, 38, 115, 116, 160, 166
Liber AB&H/Liber 4
brought to province in 1635, recorded on March 7, 1641, transcribed in 1717 (photocopy of transcription)

LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) MSA S 11-5 ff. 60, 65, 66, and 166
Liber 1
brought to province in 1633, recorded April 30, 1638, transcribed in 1724
Letter, August 1638 transcribed in 1724
brought to province in 1633, recorded August 16, 1650, transcribed in 1724

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Proceedings) MSA S 1071-1 ff. 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, and 133
Liber Z
inventory taken May 24, 1639

GENERAL ASSEMBLY UPPER HOUSE (Proceedings) MSA S 1071 f. 178
Liber MC
assembled March 23, 1641

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Proceedings) MSA S 1071 ff. 45, 58, 59
November 2, 1642
December 2, 1642