Documents for the Classroom

1. MSA SC 2221-19-1 Hulton, Paul. America 1585 The Complete Drawings of John White. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Plate 32, p. 62. Indian Village of Pomciock.

   Indian Village of Pomciock

   

2. MSA SC 2221-19-2 Bibbins, Mrs. Arthur Barneveld. The Beginnings of Maryland in England and America. Baltimore: Norman Remington Company, 1934, p. 48. "The Planting of the Colony." The original painting by Frank B. Mayer is in the State House, Annapolis.

   "The Planting of the Colony"

   

3. MSA SC 2221-19-3 Barbour, Philip L., ed. The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580-1631). Vol. II. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986, p. 99. John Smith v. the Pamunkey chief.

   John Smith v. the Pamunkey chief

   

4. MSA SC 2221-19-4 White, Fr. Andrew. A Briefe Relation of the Voyage Unto Maryland. Annapolis: Maryland Hall of Records, 1984, pp. 18-20.

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5. MSA SC 2221-19-5 LAND OFFICE (Patent Record) 1664-1665 Liber 8, f. 381. MSA S 11 MdHR 14341-2.

   f. 381

   

6. MSA SC 2221-19-6 Augustine Herrman map. A facsimile edition of the original map in the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI.

   Augustine Herrman

   

7. MSA SC 2221-19-7 GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Proceedings) Liber A, f. 130. January 21, 1647/48. MSA S 1071-4 MdHR 3821-2.

   Proceedings, f. 130

   

8. MSA SC 2221-19-8 Archives of Maryland, Proceedings of the General Assembly, Volume I, Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1883. p. 215

   • p. 215

9. MSA SC 2221-19-9 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Tunis Collection) "Margaret Brent" MSA SC 1480.

   Margaret Brent

   

10. MSA SC 2221-19-10 Thompson, Craig R. The English Church in the Sixteenth Century. Washington, DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1958 [1979], p. 31. "Martyrdom of Cranmer."

    Martyrdom of Cranmer

    

11. MSA SC 2221-19-11 GENERAL ASSEMBLY, UPPER HOUSE (Proceedings) Liber MC, ff. 354-359. "An Act Concerning Religion" [known as the Act of Toleration], 1649. MSA S 977-1 MdHR 3860. whole document

12. MSA SC 2221-19-12 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Huntingfield Collection) 1635. A Relation of the Lord Baltemore's Plantation in Maryland. "A direction for choice of servants." MSA SC 1399-526.

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13. MSA SC 2221-19-13 Galenson, David W. White Servitude in Colonial America. An Economic Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981, p. 42. Indenture contract, Type B. Middlesex County, Jan. 1683-May 1684.

    Indenture Contract

    

14. MSA SC 2221-19-14 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Haley Collection) MSA SC 1010. Sketch of slaves in the hold of a ship; Maryland Gazette slave sale advertisement, Lord Ligonier (Kunte Kinte?).

    sketch of slaves

    

    slave sale advertisement

    

15. MSA SC 2221-19-15 American Heritage History of the Thirteen Colonies. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company Inc., 1967, p. 175. "A Tobacco Plantation."

    A Tobacco Plantation

    

16. MSA SC 2221-19-16 CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers) Wallace, Davidson and Johnson, articles of partnership, 1771. MSA S512 MdHR 17,898-2892.

    Articles of partnership

    

17. MSA SC 2221-19-17 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Carroll Family Papers) "Account of persons employed at the Baltimore Ironworks, April 30, 1734." MSA SC 4199 M4215-4825. whole document

18. MSA SC 2221-19-18 Brugger, Robert J. Maryland A Middle Temperament 1634-1980. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988, pp. 170, 211. Latrobe's watercolor "An Overseer Doing His Duty; "Benjamin Bannaker's Almanac, 1795.

    "Overseer Doing His Duty"

    

    "Benjamin Bannaker's Almanac, 1795"

    

19. MSA SC 2221-19-19 Still, William. The Underground Railroad Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872. pp. 296-99. whole document

20. MSA SC 2221-19-20 Harriet Tubman, M.W. Taylor. Harriet Tubman, Antislavery Activist. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991. Original photograph in the Library of Congress.

    photograph

    

21. MSA SC 2221-19-21 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Maryland State Law Library Collection of the Maryland Gazette, 1729-1839) Maryland Gazette (Annapolis) April 4, 1793. MSA SC 2311.

    Maryland Gazette

    

22. MSA SC 2221-19-22 BC CRIMINAL COURT (Declaration of Intention) #13 pt. 1 1851-1852 MSA C 176-1 MdHR 18,126.

    Declaration of Intention, whole page

    

    Declaration of Intention, bottom half of page

    

23. MSA SC 2221-19-23 BC SUPERIOR COURT (Naturalization Record) #6 1852-1897 MSA C 231-1 MdHR 18,128.

    Michael Gilligan

    

    Adolphus Salfner

    

24. MSA SC 2221-19-24 Brugger, Robert J. Maryland A Middle Temperament 1634-1980. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988, p. 261. Mayor Swann and anti-immigrant sentiment.

    Mayor Swann

    

25. MSA SC 2221-19-25 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Constance B. Schultz Slide Collection) The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishment, and Celebration on May 19, A.D. 1870. Lithograph by Metcalf & Clark, Baltimore, 1870. Original in the Enoch Pratt Free Library. MSA SC 1260-104.

    1870 Celebration

    

26. MSA SC 2221-19-26 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Sun Collection 1862-1968). The Baltimore Sun for May 20, 1870. MSA SC 2852.

    May 20, 1870 Sun

    

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