Mary Lloyd Chew Paca, MSA SC 3520-2230

Archives of Maryland
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Mary Lloyd Chew Paca (1735-1774)
MSA SC 3520-2230
Wife of William Paca, Governor of Maryland 1782-1785

Notes

1. Gregory A. Stiverson and Phebe R. Jacobsen, William Paca: A Biography (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1976), 41. Francis Sims McGrath, Pillars of Maryland (Virginia: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1950), 402. Frank F. White, Jr., The Governors of Maryland: 1777-1970. (Maryland: The Hall of Records Commission, 1970), 17.

2. Jacobsen and Stiverson, William Paca: A Biography, 42.

3. Norman K. Risjord, Builders of Annapolis: Enterprise and Politics in a Colonial Capital (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1997), 147.

4. McGrath, Pillars of Maryland, 531.

5. Risjord, Builders of Annapolis, 147. Dumas Malone and Allen Johnson, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, vol. VII (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934), 123. Malone and Johnson report that Mary gave birth to five children, where Risjord puts the total at three. Both sources agree that John Philemon was the only child of Mary and William Paca to survive into adulthood.

6. Risjord, Builders of Annapolis, 147-148.

7. Risjord, Builders of Annapolis, 149. See note six, above.

8. White, Governors of Maryland, 17, 18.

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