Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Jacob G. Davies (1795-1857)
MSA SC 3520-12473

Sources:

Archival Sources:

Adjutant General, Military Papers, Muster roll, Richard B. Magruder's company, First Regiment of Artillery, 1814, box 11, item 18, S926-7.

Baltimore City Archives, War of 1812 Records, Muster roll, Edward Woodyard's Company, First Regiment of Artillery, April-May 1813, HRS 803, BRG22-1-4-1-6.

Baltimore City Register of Wills, Wills, Will of Sarah Bland, 1854, liber 26, p. 124, CM219-3

Baltimore County Court, Certificates of Freedom, WG 38, p. 17, C290-2.

Baltimore County Court, Marriage Licenses, 1815-1823, 1821, no. 258, p. 216, CM174-4.

Baltimore County Register of Wills, Wills, Will of John Davis, liber 6, p. 142, CM188-6.

John Skinner to James Monroe, recommending Jacob G. Davies for a commission, 12 October 1814, US Adjutant General, Letters Received, RG 94, National Archives and Records Administration, via Fold3.com.

U.S. Federal Census, 1840, Ward 7, Baltimore City, Maryland.

U.S. Federal Census, 1850, 10th Ward, Baltimore City, Maryland.

Published Sources:

Coyle, Wilbur F. The Mayors of Baltimore. Reprinted from The Baltimore Municipal Journal, 1919.

Heitman, Francis B. Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, 1789-1903. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1926).

Marine, William M. The British Invasion of Maryland, 1812-1815. Baltimore: Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland, 1913.

Newspapers:

The Sun, 11 February 1830.

"Military," The Sun, 29 September 1837.

The Sun, 28 January 1839.

"Oliver Hibernian Free Schools," The Sun, 7 September 1840.

"Elected," The Sun, 6 September 1842.

"Meeting for the Relief of Ireland," Baltimore Daily Exchange, 30 December 1846.

"Anniversary Festival of the Hibernian Society of Baltimore," The Sun, 19 March 1851.

"Democratic Convention," The Sun, 23 March 1852.

"Military Resignation," The Sun, 28 June 1852.

"Baltimore Appointments," Cecil Whig, 2 April 1853.

"The Baltimore Appointments," The Sun, 30 March 1857.

"Death of Col. Jacob G. Davies." The Sun, 8 December 1857.

"Funeral of Col. Jacob G. Davies," The Sun, 10 December 1857.

"Death of Solomon B. Davies," The Sun, 27 June 1860.

Web Sources:

"Mary Florence Davies Murdoch," FindAGrave.

"Col. Jacob G. Davies," FindAGrave.

"John Stuart Skinner," FindAGrave.

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