Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

William Polk (1752-1812)
MSA SC 3520-999

Sources:

Books and articles -

Barnes, Robert.  Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers 1796-1816.  Baltimore:  Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978.

Bond, Carroll T.  The Court of Appeals of Maryland, A History.  Baltimore:  The Barton-Gillet Company, 1928.

Cregar, William F. and Christopher Johnston.  "Index to Chancery Depositions, 1668-1789."  Maryland Historical Magazine XXIII (June 1928), 299.

Day, Alan F.  A Social Study of Lawyers in Maryland 1660-1775.  Ph.D. diss., The Johns Hopkins University, 1976.

Malone, Dumas, ed.  Dictionary of American Biography.  10 vols.  New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.

Johnston, Christopher.  Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland:  Genealogies of the Members, Record of Services of Ancestors.
        Baltimore:  Friedenwald Co., 1905.

Papenfuse, Edward C., ed.  A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789.  2 vols.
        Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
        Biographical sketch in vol. 2: I-Z, pp. 654-655.

Portrait and Biographical Record of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  New York:  Chapman Publishing Co., 1898.
        Biographical sketch on pp. 840-41.

Archival sources -

Maryland State Archives GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Commission Record) 1777-1827, S1080-7, liber TAS, no. 1, p. 320-325, 2/26/3/16.

Maryland State Archives MARYLAND INDEXES (Assessment of 1783, Index) 1783, Somerset County, MSA S 1437.

Maryland State Archives SOMERSET COUNTY COURT (Judicial Record) MSA CM962-52, March 1772-March 1774, CR 50,302.

Maryland State Archives SOMERSET COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Administration Accounts) MSA C1725-12, 1804-1816, liber EB, no. 27, pp. 195, 218, 238, 1/50/5/31.

Maryland State Archives SOMERSET COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Administration Accounts) MSA CM966-13, 1803-1816, liber EB, no. 27, pp. 195, 218, 238, CR 35,714.

Maryland State Archives SOMERSET COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories) MSA C1772-10, 1810-1814, liber EB, no. 29, pp. 99-101, 1/50/4/13.

Maryland State Archives SOMERSET COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories) MSA CM975-10, 1810-1814, liber EB, no. 29, pp. 99-101, WK 787-788-1.

Maryland State Archives SOMERSET COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) MSA CM982-8, 1800-1819, liber EB, no. 23, pp. 181-82, CR 64,656-1.

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Manokin Presbyterian Church Collection) Harry Pringle Ford, "History of the Church,"
        MSA SC 3970, M 904.

Maryland State Archives WASHINGTON ACADEMY (Proceedings of Trustees) MSA C1803-1, 1783-1843, 1/52/4/4.

Case materials -

Maryland Court of Appeals, Whittington vs. Polk (1802) Harris & Johnson Reports 1, pp. 236-251.

Maryland State Archives GENERAL COURT OF THE EASTERN SHORE (Docket) William Whittington vs. William Polk, MSA S479-46, April 1802, 1/20/4/8.

Maryland State Archives GENERAL COURT OF THE EASTERN SHORE (Judgments) William Whittington vs. William Polk, MSA S471-90, April 1802, R-Y, 1/21/1/20.

Web sources -

Biography of William Whittington

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