Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

John R. Plater (b. 1767 - d. 1832)
MSA SC 5496-050630
War of 1812 Claimant, St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1828

Sources:


Archival Sources -

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURT (Marriage Licenses)1777-1851 [MSA C113-2].

Claim of John Rousby Plater, St. Mary's County, Case # 310, Case Files Ca. 1814-28, 3.5 ft., entry 190, Record Group 76, National Archives, College Park

Commissioner of Public Records NSARM  RG 1 vol. 420 no. 93 (microfilm no. 15464)

St. Andrew's Church, St. Andrew's Parish Collection [MSA SC 2500, M 253-1]

ST. MARY'S COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE TAX (Alienations and Transfers) 1786-1829 [CM899-1  CR 11701-1]

ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Land Records),1827-1830, John R. Plater, JH 8 [MSA CE 121-2]

ST. MARY'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS, (Inventories), 1829-1832, John R. Plater, Liber EJM 2, Folio 476, [MSA CM917-10].

ST. MARY'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS, (Wills), 1826-1840, John R. Plater, Liber EJM 1, Folio 205, [MSA CM926-8].

U.S. Census Record (Census Record, MD) John R. Plater, 1810, St. Mary's County, Page 280, Line 19 [MSA SM 61-56, M 2061-3]

U.S. Census Record (Census Record, MD) John R. Plater, 1820, St. Mary's County, Page 226, Line 11 [MSA SM 61-76, M 2067-2]



Books -

Eshelman, Ralph. A Travel Guide to the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake: Eighteen Tours in Maryland, Virginia, & the District of Columbia. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
    University Press, 2011.

Hammett, Regina Combs. History of St. Mary's County, Maryland. Washington, DC: The Kirby Lithographic Company, 1977.

O'Rourke, Timothy J. Catholic Families of Southern Maryland: Records of Catholic Residents of St. Mary's County in the Eighteenth Century. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical
    Publishing Co., 2003.

Scharf., J. Thomas. History of Western Maryland. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1882.

Thomas, James Walter. Chronicles of colonial Maryland. Cumberland, MD: The Eddy Press Corporation, 1913.

Warfield, J.D. The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties. Baltimore: Kohn and Pollock, Publishers, Inc., 1905.



Newspapers and Journals-

"From the Federal Republican," American & Commercial Daily Advertiser, 25 June 1814.



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