Charles Peterson
Notes on Hampton Mansion, A Preliminary Report
May 1, 1970
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Peterson mistakenly thought that the list of sales items of Charles Carnan
Ridgely's estate were of Hampton when they were of the Gay Street Townhouse.
See page 68 of Peterson's Report
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Peterson raises the question of whether or not one of the early gardeners,
John
Willis
was an indentured servant. He probably was, according to a manifest
of convict servants purchased by Captain Charles Ridgely in 1775 which
I copied from the Cheston Galloway papers of the Maryland Historical Society
in the 1970s before they were processed and catalogued by the Society.
Ed Papenfuse
State Archivist
Maryland State Archives
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Annapolis, Maryland 21401
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© Research proposal for Hampton 1995 Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse