Executive records. Consists of Provincial Court proceedings, correspondence
between Lower and Upper houses of the General Assembly, lists of taxables
from various hundreds (1733), petitions, trials of slaves, and documents
relating to loyalists. Correspondents include governors, members of the
General Assembly, Convention of Maryland, Council of Safety, John Adams,
John Jay, and a foreign minister from Denmark (1784). Arranged numerically
by inventory number. For 1775-1789 indexed by MARYLAND INDEXES Maryland
State Papers, Index series [MSA S1484]. Some documents abstracted in Calendar
of Maryland State Papers, Number 1, The Black Books, Annapolis: Hall of
Records Commission, 1943. Some documents for 1775-1789 listed in An Inventory
of Maryland State Papers, Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1977.
Some correspondence and proceedings transcribed in: Archives of Maryland,
various volumes. Also available on microfilm for 1636-1785, [MSA SM3],
4 reels. Naturalization records indexed in MARYLAND INDEXES (Naturalizations,
Provincial, Index) 1634-1776 [MSA S1414].