Priscilla Dorsey Ridgely (1762-1814)
MSA SC 3520-2244
Wife of Charles Carnan Ridgely, Governor of Maryland 1816-1819
Notes
1. Lynne Dakin Hastings, A Guidebook to Hampton National Historic Site (Baltimore County: Historic Hampton, Inc., 1986), 9. "Family Bible of Harry Dorsey Gough Carroll" (1793-1866) Maryland Historic Magazine 22, December 4, 1927, 377.
2. Hastings, Guidebook, 5.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., 9.
5. Maxwell J. Dorsey, Jean Muir Dorsey and Nimo, Nannie Ball Nimo, The Dorsey Family (Urbana: privately published, 1947), 159.
6. Ibid., 162.
7. J.D. Warfield, The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1990), 259.
8. "Family Bible of Harry Dorsey Gough Carroll," Maryland Historical Magazine 22, December 1927, 377. Francis B. Culver, "Notes and Queries: Priscilla of the Dorseys: A Century-old Mystery," Maryland Historical Magazine 42, March 1947, 65.
9. Warfield, Founders, 259.
10. Celia M. Holland, Old Homes and Families of Howard County, Maryland (Privately Printed, 1987), 104.
11. "Family Bible of Harry Dorsey Gough Carroll" (1793-1866), Maryland Historic Magazine 22, December 4, 1927, 377.
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