Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

William C. Somerville (b. 1790 - d. 1826)
MSA SC 5496-050792
War of 1812 Claimant, St. Mary'sr County, Maryland

Sources:


Archival Sources -

Claim of William C. Somerville, St. Mary's County, Case No. 643, Case Files. Ca. 1814-28, entry 190, Record Group 76, National Archives, College Park.

Definitive List of Slaves and Property/, compiled ca. 1827 - ca. 1828/* ARC Identifier 1174162 / MLR Number PI 177 192*. National Archives, College Park.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY (Laws), 1820, MdHR 820908-1, 2/2/6/12

Letter to William Clarke Somerville [manuscript], 1823 May 29. Small Special Collections at the University of Virginia, MSS 10028.

ST. MARY'S COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE TAX (Assessment Record, Slaves) 1804-1821 [C1544]

U.S. Census Record (Census Record, MD) for William Somerville, 1800, St. Mary's County, Page 2, Line 12 [MSA SM61-36, M 2057-1].


Books -

Brown, David G. Sotterley: Her People and Their Worlds. Baltimore: Chesapeake Book Company, 2010.

Somerville, William C. Letters from Paris, on the Causes and Consequences of the French Revolution. Baltimore: Edward J. Coale, 1822.

Tiernan, Charles B. The Tiernan Family in Maryland. Baltimore: Gallery & McCann, 1898.


Newspapers and Journals-

"From the Paris Constitutionnel, 23 January 1826." Daily National Intelligencer. 5 April 1826.

Green, David Bonnell. "Three New Byron Letters." Review of Three previously unpublished Letters, Keats-Shelley Journal, Vol. 5, Winter 1956: 97-101.


Internet Sorces

"Mulberry Fields," Maryland Historical Trust Inventory of Historic Properties, last modified 2012, http://mdihp.net/dsp_county.cfm?search=county&criteria1=M&criteria2=SM&criteria3=&id=23818&viewer=true


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