Archives of Maryland
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William Grason (1788-1868)
MSA SC 3520-1456

Governor of Maryland, 1839-1842

Notes

1. Heinrich E. Buchholz, Governors of Maryland from the Revolution to the Year 1908 (Baltimore:  Williams and Wilkins Company, 1908), 130-131.

2.  St. John's College Admissions Book, March 11, 1801.

3.  Queen Anne's County Wills WHN No. 3, f. 195; Queen Anne's County Wills, WHN No. 3, f. 201.

4.  Dorchester County Marriage License Records 2, 13.

5.  Annual Message of the Executive to the Legislature of Maryland, December Session, 1839 (Annapolis, 1839), 3.

6.  Ibid., 8.

7.  Ibid., 3.

8.  Annual Message of the Executive to the Legislature of Maryland, December Session, 1840 (Annapolis, 1840), 4.

9.  Ibid., 12-13.

10.  Annual Message of the Executive to the General Assembly of Maryland, December Session, 1841 (Annapolis, 1841), 15-16.

11.  Courtesy of James Paul Meredith, Jr., and Miss Patricia C. Goldsborough who copied the tombstone inscription.

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