Elizabeth Courts Thomas (1789-1851)
MSA SC 3520-2254
First Lady of Maryland, 1833-1836
1. Armstrong Thomas, The Thomas Brothers of Mattapany (Privately Printed: 1982), 136.
2. Lois Green Carr and David William Jordan, Maryland's Revolution of Government, 1689-1692 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press: 1974), 249-250.
3. Edward C. Papenfuse, et al. Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press: 1979), 238.
4. Ibid.
5. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Mrs. T. Rowland Thomas Collection) Letter from Betsy Coates to her brother, William Thomas, November 23, 1795, Folder 136, MSA SC 176-1-136.
6. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Mrs. T. Rowland Thomas Collection) Memorandum between Betsy Coates and Joseph Herbert, Overseer, July 31, 1806, Folder 164, MSA SC 176-1-164; SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Mrs. T. Rowland Thomas Collection) Receipt, Joseph Herbert, signed at Piccawaxon, Charles County, June 27, 1806, Folder 170, MSA SC 176-1-170.
7. ST. MARY'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) Betsy Coates, 1808, JJ 3, WK 280-281-3, p. 174, MSA CM926-6.
8. ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Marriage Licenses) Doc. James Thomas and Eliza Coates, January 26, 1808, CR 7450-1, MSA CM 905-1.
9. Richard Henry Spencer, Genealogical and Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Maryland, Two Volumes (Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, 1992), 144-145.
10. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Mrs. T. Rowland Thomas Collection) Letter from James Thomas to his daughter, Elizabeth, 17 February 1827, Folder 285, MSA SC 176-1-285;
11. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Mrs. T. Rowland Thomas Collection) Letter from Eliza Thomas to her daughter, Elizabeth, 20 January 1828, Folder 287, MSA SC 176-1-287; SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Mrs. T. Rowland Thomas Collection) Letter from Eliza Thomas to her son, Henry, 23 April 1846, Folder 435, MSA SC 176-1-435.
12. Armstrong Thomas, The Thomas Brothers of Mattapany (Privately Printed: 1982), 136.
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