Mary Digges Lee, MSA SC 3520-2229

Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Mary Digges Lee (1745-1805)
MSA SC 3520-2229
First Lady of Maryland, 1779-1782 and 1792-1794

Notes

1. Folger McKinsey and T.J.C. Williams, History of Frederick County, Maryland, Volume I (Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company, 1967), 121.

2. Effie Gwynn Bowie, Across the Years in Prince George's County (Richmond: Garrett and Massie, Incorporated, 1947), 274.

3. Ibid., 275.

4. Peabody, Helen Lee. "Revolutionary Mail Bag: Governor Thomas Sim Lee's Correspondence 1779-1782," Maryland Historical Magazine 49,
March 1954, 4.

5. Peabody, Helen Lee. "Revolutionary Mail Bag: Governor Thomas Sim Lee's Correspondence 1779-1782," Maryland Historical Magazine 49,
June 1954, 136.

6. Bowie, Across the Years, 279.

7. Ibid., 274.

8. Frank F. White, Jr. The Governors of Maryland: 1777-1790 (Annapolis: The Hall of Records Commission, 1970), 11.

9. Ibid.

10. Sister M.V. Geiger, Thomas Sim Lee (Baltimore: The College of Notre Dame of Maryland), 3.

11. Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Rev. J. Columbia Costin Collection) MSA SC 773 00/09/09/05:
Thomas Sim Lee to Ignatius Digges, July 9, 1771.
Thomas Sim Lee to Ignatius Digges, 1771 (exact date unknown).

12. White, Governors, 11.

13. McKinsey and Williams, History of Frederick County, Maryland, 122.

14. Bowie, Across the Years, 524.

15. Buchholz, Heinrich Ewald. Governors of Maryland from the Revolution to the Year 1908, 2d ed. (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Company, 1908), 13.

16. Bowie, Across the Years in Prince George's County, 524.

17. McKinsey and Williams, History of Frederick County, Maryland, 130.

18. White, Governors, 11.

19. Jean B. Lee, The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1994), 170.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. Peabody, Helen Lee. "Revolutionary Mail Bag: Governor Thomas Sim Lee's Correspondence 1779-1782," Maryland Historical Magazine 49,
March 1954, 6.

23. Therese C. Yewell, Women of Achievement in Prince George's County, Maryland (Maryland: The National Park and Planning Commission, 1994), 29.

24. Maryland State Archives GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Letterbook) 1779-1780, Accession No: 3847, MSA S1075-7.

25. Mary Digges Lee to George Washington, September 27, 1780, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division: 42, 203.

26. Mary Digges Lee to George Washington, September 27, 1780, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division: 42, 203.

27. George Washington to Mary Digges Lee, October 11, 1780, Washington's Works: The Writings of George Washington, 7th ed. Jared Sparks (Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, and Hillard, Gray, and Co., 1835), 243-4.

28. Ibid.

29. Bowie, Across the Years, 525. Yewell, Women of Achievement, 29.

30. White, Governors, 14.

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