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Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer (1723-1790)
MSA SC 3520-728
Primary Sources:
See also: Related Collections.
Material relating to his involvement with the Maryland State House:
- Maryland
Historical Society, 1779, MS 574. Letter from Charles Wallace to Daniel
of St. Thomas Jenifer seeking final settlement for services rendered as
superintending the State House.
- INTENDANT OF THE REVENUE (Letter Book), 1782, MSA S166-2.
- MARYLAND
STATE PAPERS (Scharf Collection), 1783, MSA S1005-82-11444, MdHR
19,999-76-73. Payment made by Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer to Cornelius
Mills for wood for the use of the General Assembly.
- MARYLAND
STATE PAPERS (Scharf Collection), 1783, MSA S1005-81-11204, MdHR
19,999-75-58. Request by Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer for money in
order to purchase wood for the use of the General Assembly.
- MARYLAND
STATE PAPERS (Series A), 1784, MSA S 1004-65-18448, MdHR 6636-46-91.
Letter from Mark Pringle to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer regarding
purchase and shipment of Windsor chairs.
- MARYLAND
STATE PAPERS (Series A), 1784, MSA S 1004-65, MdHR 6636-46-93. Letter
from Mark Pringle to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer presenting bill for
five dozen chairs.
- MARYLAND STATE PAPERS (Scharf Collection), 1784, MSA S 1005-57-6442.
- Proceedings
of the House of Delegates, 1784, MSA SC M3197, 287-288. Daniel St.
Thomas Jenifer reported to the House of Delegates the condition of the
State House upon Charles Wallace's resignation and the search for a new
architect.
- Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1784, Volume 22. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976-2000.
- INTENDANT OF THE REVENUE (Letterbook), 1785, MSA S 166-3. Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer contracting carpenters.
- INTENDANT
OF THE REVENUE (Letterbook), 1785, MSA S 166-3. Letter to Joseph Clark
from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer inquiring about State House scantling.
- INTENDANT
OF THE REVENUE (Letterbook), 1785, MSA S 166-3. Letter to Col. Joseph
Dashiell from Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer regarding the State House
dome.
- INTENDANT
OF THE REVENUE (Letterbook), 1785, MSA S 166-3. Letter from Daniel of
St. Thomas to Joseph Clark agreeing to his propositions to repair the
State House.
- INTENDANT
OF THE REVENUE (Letterbook), 1785, MSA S 166-3. Letter from Daniel of
St. Thomas Jenifer to David Stewart requesting laborers from Europe.
- INTENDANT
OF THE REVENUE (Letterbook), 1785, MSA S 166-3. Letter from Daniel of
St. Thomas Jenifer to Governor Paca regarding removal of furniture from
Governor's House by John Shaw.
- Proceedings
of the Governor and Council, Volume 71, ff.105-6. "The Board have
agreed with Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Equ. for his House near the
Stadt House for the use of the public, for such length of time as they
may want it at the rate of 12 pounds 10 shillings per month."
- MARYLAND
STATE PAPERS (Scharf Collection), MSA S 1005-14154, MdHR 19,999-87-63.
Undated memorandum for the Intendant [likely Jenifer] for, notably, two
brass chandeliers.
- Proceedings
of the Governor and Council, Volume 71, ff.193. Ordered that the
Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer for
three months rent of his house. See also page 269.
- Anne
Tria Research Collection, 1790, MSA SC 6008. Letter from John Eager
Howard to the General Assembly on behalf of Daniel of St. Thomas
Jenifer seeking to obtain money from the sale of confiscated Loyalist
property to fund the staircase leading to the Dome.
Newspaper/Journal Articles:The Maryland Gazette, 10 March 1785.
Secondary Sources:
Papenfuse, Edward C., et al., "Daniel
of
St. Thomas Jenifer (Jennifer)," in A Biographical Dictionary of
the Maryland Legislature 1635-1789, Vol. I, I-Z (Baltimore:
The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985), 485-486.
Malone, Dumas ed. "Daniel of St.
Thomas
Jenifer," in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 5
HIBBEN-LARKIN(New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961), 42-43.
Biographical Directory of the United
States
Congress, 1774-present
online
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000079).
"Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer," in
Maryland and the U.S. Constitution: Five Delegates to
Philadelphia.
(Maryland State Archives, 1987).Essary J. Frederick. Maryland
in
National Politics: from Charles Carroll to Albert C.
Ritchie.
(Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1932), 50, 54.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Legislative History
Project Biographical File) MSA SC 1138-001-728
Papenfuse, Edward C. The Legislative Response to a Costly War: Fiscal Policy and Factional Politics in Maryland, 1777-1789. in. Hoffman, Ronald and Peter Albert, ed, Sovereign States in an Age of Uncertainty. Charlottsville: University Press of Virginia, 1981.
Unpublished essay: Daniel of
St.
Thomas Jenifer - 1723-1790 by Anne H.H. Skone Jameson (copy
submitted
by Orlando Ridout).
Wearmouth, John M. Charles County Helps Shape the Nation.
(n.pub., n.pl., 1986).
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