Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Sarah Decoursey Wright
MSA SC 3520-2240
Wife of Robert Wright, Governor of Maryland, 1806-1809

Sources:

Books-

Buchholz, Heinrich E. Governors of Maryland: From the Revolution to the Year 1908.  2d ed.  Baltimore: Williams and Wilkens Co., 1908.

Emory, Mary Burke. Colonial Families and Their Descendants.  Baltimore: Sun Printing Office, 1900.

Holland, Celia M.. Old Homes and Families of Howard County, Maryland.  Privately printed, 1987.

Malone, Dumas and Allen Johnson, eds.  Dictionary of American Biography, Volume X.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.

Shramek, Claudia P., House of DeCoursey.  Maryland: Maryland State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, n.d..

Johnston, Christopher, ed. Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland.  Baltimore: Friednwald, Co., 1905.

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

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

Newspaper/Magazine Articles-

Pleasants, J. Hall, ed.. "Letters of Molly and Hetty Tilghman," Maryland Historical Magazine, June 21, 1926.

Other Sources-

Maryland State Archives. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Legislative History Project) Governor Robert Wright File, MSA SC 1138-1425, 2/11/11/6.

Maryland State Archives QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) 1815-1833,  T.C.E. #1:224, Accession No: WK 495, CM 869-12.

Maryland State Archives QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY COURT (Land Records) 1816-1818, TM 1, Accession No: 13859, C 1426-31, 2/1/1/31, Microfilm: Accession No: CR 37450, CM 1163-31.


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