Archives of
Maryland
(Biographical Series)
Dr. Benedict Joseph Semmes (1789-1863)
MSA SC 3520-1889
Sources:
Archival sources -
Journal of the Maryland House of Delegates for the 1825 Regular
Session
p.
4 - Election of Benedit J. Semmes as Speaker of the House
Maryland State Archives GOVERNOR
AND COUNCIL (Election Returns) Summary of Election Returns for the
October
5, 1829, for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, MSA S 106-80,
2/50/1/11.
Maryland State Archives GOVERNOR
AND COUNCIL (Election Returns) Election Returns for Anne Arundel and
Prince
George's counties for the October 3, 1831, for seats in the U.S. House
of Representatives, MSA S 106, 2/50/1/12.
Maryland State Archives SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS
(Hammond Harwood House Atlas Collection) Piscataway District as shown
in
Simon J. Martenet's Map of Prince George's County, 1861, MSA SC
1213-1-118.
Maryland
State Archives PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Estate
Papers) B. J. Semmes, 1863, Box 1861 File No. 616, MSA T 698-11,
OR/18/10/38.
Books -
Eisenberg, Gerson G. Marylanders
Who
Served the Nation. Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives, 1992.
Humphreys, Anderson and Curt
Guenther.
Semmes
America. Memphis, TN: Humphreys, Ink, Inc., 1989.
Newman, Harry Wright. Charles County
Gentry. Balitmore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1971.
Parsons, Stanley B., et al. United
States
Congressional Districts, 1788-1841. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1978.
Semmes, Raphael Thomas. The Semmes
and
Allied Families. Baltimore, MD: The Sun Book and Job Printing
Office,
Inc., 1918.
A search of Baltz, Shirley V., compl. Maryland Marriages and
Deaths
in 19th Century Newspapers, Prince George's County, Maryland.
Bowie,
MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1995. revealed no references to Benedict J.
Semmes.
Web sources -
Archives of Maryland Online -
Legislative Records
Biographical
Dictionary of the United States Congress entry
Library of
Congress' A Century of
Lawmaking....U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875.
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