Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Thomas Poppleton (1765-1837)
MSA SC 3520-2757

Sources:

Archival sources -

London Metropolitan Archives, Middlesex Sessions of the Peace, Session Papers, Petitions and Appeals - George Imms, apprentice, v. Thomas Holdsworth Poppleton and Henry Ashley Keeble, late of Bloomsbury Square, St. George Bloomsbury, surveyors; partnership broken and Keeble arrested for debt, June Quarter Session 1809, MJ/SP/1809/JU/009-011.

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Gilmore Watson Collection) Proposals for surveying Baltimore agreeable to ordinance passed March 1812, April 1812 [MSA SC 806-1-1, 0/09/09/80]

Maryland State Archives SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Morris L. Radoff Memorial Fund Collection) Receipts and account statements relating to the survey of Baltimore conducted by Thomas Poppleton. [MSA SC 4645-3-1, 0/32/04/26]

BALTIMORE CITY ARCHIVES (Baltimore City Commissioners) Contract for survey of the City by Poppleton, 1812, Box 6 No. 208 [BCA BRG3-1-16-6-4, BC/11/01/016/S00]

BALTIMORE CITY ARCHIVES (Baltimore City Commissioners) Meetings and proceedings relating to survey of the City, 20 April 1812, Box 16 No. 221 [BCA BRG3-1-16-8-1, BC/11/01/016/S00]

BALTIMORE CITY ARCHIVES (Baltimore City Commissioners) Meetings and proceedings relating to survey of the City, 20 April 1812, Box 16 No. 222 [BCA BRG3-1-16-8-2, BC/11/01/016/S00]

BALTIMORE CITY ARCHIVES (Baltimore City Commissioners) Meetings and proceedings relating to survey of the City, 20 April 1812, Box 16 No. 222 [BCA BRG3-1-16-8-3, BC/11/01/016/S00]

BALTIMORE CITY ARCHIVES (Baltimore City Commissioners) Correspondence relating to survey of the City; Thomas Poppleton as private surveyor, 1812, Box 16 No. 279 [BCA BRG3-1-16-13-4, BC/11/01/016/S00]

BALTIMORE CITY ARCHIVES (Baltimore City Commissioners) Henry Stauffers, objection against appointment of Thomas Poppleton as surveyor of City, 1812, Box  16 No. 283 [BCA BRG3-1-16-13-8, BC/11/01/016/S00]

BALTIMORE CITY ARCHIVES (Baltimore City Commissioners) Poppleton's explanation of proceedings of survey, 1812, Box 16 No. 287 [BCA BRG3-1-16-13-12, BC/11/01/016/S00]

BALTIMORE CITY ARCHIVES (Baltimore City Commissioners) Poppleton's proposal for making survey of the city, 1812, Box 16 No. 289 [BCA BRG3-1-16-13-14, BC/11/01/016/S00]

BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Naturalization Docket) Declaration of Intent of Thomas Holdsworth Poppleton, 7 July 1830, Volume 1 p. 161 [MSA C389-1, 2/12/6/1]

BALTIMORE CITY ARCHIVES (Health Department) Report of Internments in the City of Baltimore for the week ending April 3, 1837, BCA BRG 19-1-8-6-1

BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Administration Docket) Volume 10 pp. 219-220 [MSA CM130-11, CR 10,676-1]

Articles -

Ad of T. H. Poppleton. American and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 14 December 1813.

List of  Applicants for the benefit of Insolvent Laws. Baltimore Patriot, 4 December 1830.

Death Notice. Baltimore Gazette and Daily Advertiser, 29 March 1837.

Barnes, Robert. "Thomas Poppleton: Elusive Mapmaker" Maryland State Archives' Bulldog, 23 March 1998.


Books -

Matchett's Baltimore Director for 1827

Matchett's Baltimore Director for 1829

Matchett's Baltimore Director for 1831

Matchett's Baltimore Director for 1833

Matchett's Baltimore Director for 1835

Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 1784-1831. New York, City of New York, 1917.

Olson, Sherry H. Baltimore: The Building of an American City. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Papenfuse, Edward C. and Joseph M. Coale III. The Maryland State Archives  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Scott, Kenneth. British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1979.


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