Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

William Bruce (1752-1825)
MSA SC 3520-17837

Sources:

Archival Sources:

Charles County Court, Land Records, Deed, Robert Yates, et al., to Charles Bruce, 1744, Liber X 2, p. 106 [MSA CE82-28].

Charles County Court, Land Records, Deed, Robert Rogers to William Bruce, 1791, Liber K 4, p. 306 [MSA CE 82-39].

Charles County Court, Land Records, Deed, James Simmes to William Bruce, 1796, Liber IB 2, p. 59 [MSA CE 82-41].

Charles County Register of Wills, Wills, William Bruce, 1823, Liber WDM 15, p. 153 [MSA CM412-16, WK 246-247].

General Assembly House of Delegates, Assessment Record, 1783, Charles County, District 1, p. 1 [MSA S1161-4-5, 1/4/5/47].

Land Office, Lots Westward of Fort Cumberland [MSA SE1-1].

Maryland State Papers, Red Books, William Bruce to Gov. Thomas Johnson, 22 July 1779, vol. 20, no. 176 [MSA S989-30, 1/6/4/18].

Prerogative Court, Wills, Charles Bruce, 1757, Liber 30, p. 448 [MSA S538-44, 1/11/1/38].

Pension of Mark McPherson, National Archives, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land-Warrant Application Files, W 2144, from Fold3.com.  

Pension of Thomas Lansdale, National Archives, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land-Warrant Application Files, W 13604, from Fold3.com

Pension of William Bruce, National Archives, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land-Warrant Application Files, S 34668, from Fold3.com.

U.S. Federal Census, 1790, Charles County, Maryland.

Published Sources:

Federal Direct Tax, 1798, Archives of Maryland Online, vol. 729.

Lee, Jean B. The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994.

O’Donnell, Patrick K. Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution. New York: Grove Press, 2016.

Tacyn, Mark Andrew. “’To the End:’ The First Maryland Regiment and the American Revolution.” PhD diss., University of Maryland College Park, 1999.

Smallwood, William to George Washington, 9 October 1782, Founders Online, National Archives.

Steuart, Reiman. The Maryland Line. The Society of the Cincinnati, 1971.

Newspapers:

Maryland Gazette (Annapolis), 5 January 1775.

Maryland Gazette (Annapolis), 10 November 1825.

Web Sources:

1775 Timeline, “Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 to 1789,” Library of Congress.

“Brothers in Arms,” Finding the Maryland 400.

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