Proclamations, Orders, Commissions, Records of Pardons, 1658-1818

Unit 1:
1658-1681 Proclamations, Orders, Commissions, etc. 32 p. MS. Calvert Papers 205.
1667 Oct. Orders on the Cessation of Tobacco Planting. 3 p. MS. Calvert Papers 215.
1669-1670 Instructions for Settling the Seaboard. 7 p. MS. Calvert Papers 216.
1685 Aug. 10 James II Instructions to Charles Lord Baltimore. [18] p. MS. Calvert Papers 241.
1715 George I Instructions to Lord Guilford, Guardian of Charles, fifth Lord Baltimore. 44 [3] p. MS. Calvert Papers 254.
1722-1736 Instructions from Charles Lord Baltimore. 18 p. MS. Calvert Papers 278.
1729-1750 Copies of Orders and Instructions of Charles Lord Baltimore. 118 p. MS. Calvert Papers 295 1/2.
1751-1753 Entry of Letters on Several Occasions from the Right Honorable the Lord Proprietary of Maryland and Avalon, etc. 199 p. MS.

Unit 2:
Record of Pardons, 1785 Dec. - 1790 Nov. 1 pl, 162 , [7] p. MS. Md-Ar-1930

Unit 3:
Record of Pardons, 1791 Jan. - 1806 Apr. 62, [230] p. MS. Md-Ar-1931-1932

Unit 4:
Record of Pardons, 1806 May - 1818 Dec. [323] p. MS. Md-Ar-1931-1932

The Early State Records Series was created between 1941 and 1950 as a joint project by the Library of Congress and the University of North Carolina. Edited by William Sumner Jenkins it resulted in 1600 reels of microfilm containing government records from 48 states. There were 68 reels created containing records from Maryland up to 1867. They are the starting point from which new transcribed and indexed volumes in the Archives of Maryland in part will be derived.

The digital edition of the Archives of Maryland is published by the Maryland State Archives through a grant from the Information Technology Fund of the State of Maryland. As part of an ongoing effort to provide greater access to Maryland Legal History, the Archives is bringing the Archives of Maryland online, linking the transcribed and edited contents to scans of the original documents from which the indexed transcripts are derived.