Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Priscilla Mackall Bowie (1758-1823)
MSA SC 3520-2239
First Lady of Maryland 1803-1806, 1811-1812

Sources:

Books-

Bowie, Effie Gwynn.  Across the Years in Prince George's County.  Richmond: Garrett and Massie, Inc., 1947.

Bowie, Walter Worthington. The Bowies and their Kindred: A Genealogical and Biographical History.  Washington: Press of Cromwell Bros., 1899.

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

Johnson, Allen, ed. Dictionary of American Biography.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.

Klapthor, Margaret Brown. Maryland's Presidential First Ladies: Mrs. Zachary Taylor and Mrs. John Quincy Adams from Calvert County.  Division of Political History, Smithsonian Institution.

Stein, Charles Francis. A History of Calvert County Maryland.  Published by the author in cooperation with the Calvert County Historical Society, 1976.

Warfield, J.D.  The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland.  Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1990.

White, Frank F., Jr.  The Governors of Maryland: 1777-1970.  Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1970.

Newspaper/Magazine Articles-

"The Knot," Maryland Gazette, December 27, 1804.
 

Other Sources-

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Christ Church Collection) Parish Register 1685-1847, ff.37-29, M270, MSA SC 2638.

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Legislative History Project Collection) Governor Robert Bowie file, MSA SC 1138-121, 2/11/12/7.

Calvert County (Wills) 1772 [L. 38, ff 509-513].

Maryland State Archives PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) Will of Robert Bowie, January 5, 1818, TT1, p.216, Accession No: CR 34682-1, CM 816-3.

Maryland State Archives PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) Will of Priscilla Bowie, January 31, 1822, TT1, p.339, Accession No: CR 34862-1, CM 816-3.

Maryland State Archives PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories) 1817-1820, TT 3, i, ff. 102-113, MdHR 18,846, MSA C1228-18, 1/25/09/09.

Maryland State Archives PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) 1820-1833, TT 1, f. 339, MdHR 9726-2, MSA C1326-6, 01/25/07/07.

Maryland State Archives PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Orphan Court Proceedings) 1812-1815, TT 4, Accession No: 18883-1, C1275-5, 1/25/11/36:

    June 13, 1815: p.74

Maryland State Archives PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Orphan Court Proceedings) 1816-1820, i, Accession No: 18884-1, C1275-6, 1/25/11/37.

    January 24, 1818: p. 171-2

    January 20, 1818: p. 186-7, 191, 199, 213, 258, 362, 398, 412


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