Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

William Perkins (b. 1820 - d. 1895)
MSA SC 5496-51553
Entrepreneur, Black Property Owner, Kent County

Sources:

Archival Sources - 

CENTENARY BIBLICAL INSTITUTE (Minutes) 1866-1890 [MSA SM109] February 12, 1872.

KENT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Charter Record) 1869-1898 [MSA CM648-1] Book 1, Page 50.

KENT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Charter Record) 1869-1898 [MSA CM648-1] Book 1, Page 115.

KENT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records) [MSA CE 57-10] JKH 4, pp. 692 - 693.

KENT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records) [MSA CE 57-30] SB 7, pp. 347 - 348.

KENT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records) [MSA CE 118-54] JR 1, p. 27.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (The Chestertown Transcript) [MSA SC 3326] “William Perkins Dead,” The Chestertown Transcript, May 9, 1895.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (The Transcript) [MSA SC 3326] The Chestertown Transcript, September 17, 1870

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Kent News) [MSA SC 2901] “New Oyster House,” The Kent News, March 28, 1846.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Kent News) [MSA SC 2901 SCM] “Oysters! Oysters!! The Rising Sun Just Opened,” The Kent News, October 11, 1856.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) 1860 [MSA SM61-212] Kent County, Chestertown, Page 180. . 

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) 1870 [MSA SM 61-274] Kent  County, Chestertown 4th Election District, Page 172.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) 1880 [MSA SM61-323] Kent  County, Chestertown, Page 123.

Newspapers and Journals -

"Affairs in Kent County" The Baltimore Sun, April 18, 1869.

"Death of a Colored Politician" The Baltimore Sun, May 6, 1895.

“Celebration of the Fifthteenth Amendment in Kent Count” The Sun, April 21, 1870

"Colored Colonization Convention," The Baltimore Sun, July 27, 1852.

"Thinks Blaine Will Take Care of Him" The Baltimore Sun, February 15, 1889.

"The Free Colored People's Convention, The Baltimore Sun, July 28, 1852.

“The Free Colored People's Convention, The Baltimore Sun, July 29, 1852

“Then & Now Republican 'Journal' started after Civil War June 23” MyEasternShore. Accessed July 31, 2012, http://www.myeasternshoremd.com/opinion/article_d81e44c1-4595-5a9d-ac15-622b502d9b7f.html.

Maddox, Lucy. “‘A Liberal Share of Public Patronage’: Chestertown’s Antebellum Black Businesses.” Key to Old Kent, 5 (no. 1, 2011): 23-31.


Books -

An Illustrated Atlas of Kent and Queen Anne Counties, Maryland, (Philadelphia : Lake, Griffing & Stevenson, 1877).Cimbala, Pauls A. and Randall, eds. The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations. New York: Fordham University Press, 1999.

Gutman, Herbert George. The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.

Lang, John ed., Here on the Chester: Washington College remembers old Chestertown. Chestertown: Literary House Press of Washington College. Accessed July 31, 2012, http://archive.org/stream/hereonchesterwas00lang#page/146/mode/2up.

Monroe, David S. Journal of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held in Philadelphia, Pa., May 1-28, 1884. New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1884. accessed July 31, 2012, http://archive.org/stream/journalsofgenera00meth#page/n7/mode/2up.

Woodruff, George W. ed, Journal of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church held in Baltimore, Md., May 1-31, 1876. New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1876. Accessed July 31, 2012, http://archive.org/stream/journalofgeneral08meth#page/144/mode/2up.


Internet Sources -

Maryland Historical Trust. “John Reid House.” Accessed July 31, 2012, http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/027000/027700/027795/pdf/msa_se5_27795.pdf.

 

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