Mathias Clarke (b. circa 1766 - d. before 1840)
MSA SC 5496-050627
War of 1812 Claimant, St. Mary's County, Maryland
Sources:
Archival Sources -
Bayly, Thomas M. No. III, Bayly's List. RG 76. Records of Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitration. Records of the Mixed Claims Commission: Miscellaneous Records.
Definitive List of Slaves and Property, compiled ca. 1827 - ca. 1828, ARC Identifier 1174162 / MLR Number PI 177 192. National Archives, College Park.
LAND OFFICE, (Patent Record), Liber 1, Folio 218, MSA S11-2. Leonard Calvert, 1641, Trinity Manor, 600 acres.
Minute Book No 16 of the Commissioners of the Tax for St. Mary’s County. 1810-1815. Book in possession of Charles Fenwick Jr. Leonardtown, Md. courtesy of the St. Mary's County Historical Society.
Mathias Clarke, No. 120. RG 76. Records of Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitration. Records of the Mixed Claims Commission: Miscellaneous Records. Ca. 1814-28, 7 vols., entry 185. Vol. 4 of 11. National Archives, College Park.
ST. MARY'S COUNTY, COMMISSIONERS OF THE TAX, (Assessment Record, Slaves), 1813, [MSA C1544-26]. Matthias Clarke, April 9, 1813.
ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Land Records), Liber JH 12, Folio 80, 1840-1842, [MSA CE 121-6]. Thomas McMorgan to James Kirk, December 15, 1840.
St. Mary's County District 1, Simon J. Martenet, Map of St. Mary's County, 1865, Huntingfield Collection, [MSA SC 1399-1-75].
ST. MARY'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS, (Inventories), 1840-1845, Liber GC 2, Folio 323, Film Reel: CR 35709-1, [MSA CE443-13]. Dr. Robert A. Clarke, November 14, 1843.
Newspapers and Journals -
Cassel, Frank A. “Slaves of the Chesapeake Bay Area and the War of 1812.” Journal of Negro History 57 (April 1972): 142-154.
Hecht, Arthur. "The Post Office Department in St. Mary's County in the War of 1812." Maryland Historical Magazine 52 (1957): 142-52.
Ross, Nancy L. "Riverfront Manor's Painstaking Restoration." Washington Post 31 January 1991: 3. Historical Newspapers. ProQuest databases.
Books -
Beitzell, Edwin W. Life on the Potomac River. Published by the author, 1968.
Brown, Everit and Albert Strauss. A Dictionary of American Politics. New York, NY: A.L. Burt, 1892. 430.
Cryer, Leona. Deaths and Burials in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1995.
Footner, Geoffrey M. Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success of the Chesapeake Bay Pilot Schooners. Dexter, MI: Thomson-Shore, 1998.
Hammett, Regina Combs. History of St. Mary's County, Maryland. Published by the author, 1977.
Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.
Maryland Bureau of Statistics and Information. Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland. Baltimore, MD: Kohn & Pollock, Inc., 1908.
O'Rourke, Timothy J. Catholic families of Southern Maryland. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, Inc., 2001.
Pogue, Robert E.T. Yesterday in Old St. Mary's County. New York, NY: Carlton Press, 1968.
Richardson, Hester Dorsey. Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland. Vol. 1. Baltimore, MD: Williams and Wilkins Company, 1913.
United States Post Office Department. United States Official Postal Guide. Washington City: Way & Gideon, 1813.
United States Post Office Department. United States Official Postal Guide. Washington City: Way & Gideon, 1825.
United States Post Office Department. United States Official Postal Guide. Washington City: Way & Gideon, 1828.
Internet Sources -
"Woodlawn." SM-21. Maryland Historical Trust. Inventory of Historic Properties. www.mdihhp.net.
"Woodlawn." National Register of Historic Places. http://mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=618&FROM=NRMapST.html.
"Woodlawn: A Maryland Estate." Woodlawn Properties, LLC. www.woodlawn-farm.com.
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