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from our records. This year was an especially good one for us in that
we were privileged to serve so many dedicated searchers. Obviously,
not all of them can be listed here, but the following will give you
some idea of the diversity of their interests.

Mr. and Mrs. Francis F. Beirne, Biographers of Samuel Chase,
Ruxton, Maryland; Whitfield J. Bell, Editor, the Papers of Alexander
Hamilton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The Reverend Paul E. Bohi,
Minister, Magothy Methodist Church, Pasadena, Maryland; Judge Wil-
liam B. Bowie, research on the Bowie Family, Upper Marlboro, Mary-
land; S. Sydney Bradford, National Historic Sites, Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania; Frank E. Bridgets, Research and Reference Department, Na-
tional Archives, Washington, D. C; Mrs. Irvin C. Brown, National
Chairman, Genealogical Records, Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion; Vaughn W. Brown, Maritime Historian, Annapolis, Maryland;
William L. Calderhead, Professor of History, U. S. Naval Academy;
The Reverend Edward B. Carley, Assistant Pastor, St. Peter's Cathedral,
Wilmington, Delaware; Lois Green Carr, Historian of Local Govern-
ment in Maryland, 1689-1708, Annapolis, Maryland; Howard N.
Christian, student of The Contemporary Significance of Original Land
Survey Patterns in the Delmarva Peninsula, Syracuse University; Anne
F. Clapp, Graduate Student, University of Maryland; Malcolm C. Clark,
research on Elections before 1800, Georgetown University.

Charles E. Collins, Delegate, Frederick County; Edna P. Cook,
Delegate, Montgomery County; Mrs. Eugene Mackall Childs, Chil-
dren's Museum, Annapolis; The Reverend Michael J. Curley, Research
for the Beatification of Father Francis X. Serlos, Brooklyn, New York;
Caleb Dorsey, research on Original Tracts in Howard County, Balti-
more, Maryland; Jean Muir Dorsey, genealogist of the Dorsey Family,
Urbana, Illinois; Dr. Rhoda Dorsey, Professor of History, Goucher
College; Francois Dousset, Inspector General of the Archives of
France; William V. Elder III, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore,
Maryland; C. Ashley Ellefson, Associate Professor of History, Court-
land College, New York; James H. Elsdon, Professor of Foreign
Languages, U. S. Naval Academy; Charles E. Fenwick, President, St.
Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, Maryland; P. William
Filby, Librarian, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland;
Vera Ruth Filby, Town Historian of Savage, Maryland; H. Chandlee
Forman, Architect-Historian, Easton, Maryland; Joy Gary, research on
Patrick Creagh, Annapolis, Maryland; Sidney M. Glazer, Department
of Justice, Washington, D. C