Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families, Volume 1

Williams and Wilkins Company, 1913 - Maryland

The First Maryland Settlers	5

The Voyage to Maryland	15

Christmas on the Ark A D 1633	25

Leonard Calverts First Letter from Maryland	29

Goods Brought by First Settlers	36

An Ancient Bill of Lading	40

Colonial Life and Aristocracy	45

A Glimpse through Colonial Doorways	49

The Transported Settlers	53

Maryland Not a Penal Colony	56

First Prison in Maryland	62

The Lords and Ladies of the Manors	65

Leisurely Ways of the Colonial Court	72

The Puritans from Virginia	75

The Oldest Church in Maryland	77

A Property Qualification	82

Removal of the Capital to Annapolis	85

The Old Tuesday Club	89

Mail Service in Provincial Times	95

Colors of the Counties	99

The Birthplace of Religious Liberty	102

The Curious Law of Deodand	106

The Palace of Lord Baltimore	109

Somerset County and the Presbyterians	115

A Colonial Lending Library	119

Colonial Currency	124

The Dutch on the Delaware	129

The Origin of Lynch Law	133

The Gentle Hearted Indian	135

Witchcraft in Maryland	141

The First Theatre in America	144

A Colonial Business Woman	147

New Light on Claibornes Claim to Kent Island	151

Origin of the Ground Rent	161

Education in the Province	165

First Free School in Maryland	169

The Scotch Exiles	213

The Fountain Pen in the Time of Charles II	216

Early Divorce Law	218

Quakers not persecuted in Maryland	220

Early Parishes	225

Diversity in Spelling Colonial Names	228

A Colonial Sanitarium	231

Establishment of the Land Office	234

The First Laborsaving Invention in Mary land	238

A Poet Laureate in Colonial Maryland	243

Life on Colonial Plantations	246

MarylandThe Promised Land to the Per secuted	249

Old Towns of the Eastern Shore	251

Giving Names to Lands	257

Proprietaries and their Representatives	260

Lords of the Manor in Colonial Maryland with their original Land Surveys taken from Lord Baltimores Rent Rolls	263

Maryland Colonial Militia	267

Names of one thousand early Settlers with their earliest Land Surveys	286

The Sons of Liberty	356

The Burning of the Peggy Stewart	361

Marylands Declaration of Independence	371

The Ride of LieutenantColonel Tench	377

Where Washington resigned his Com	383

Unsung Heroes of the Revolution	394

Maryland My Maryland	401

An Inaccurate List of the Ark and Dove	411

Maryland Executive Exhibit	419

Copyright

Title	Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families, Volume 1 Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families, Hester Dorsey Richardson
Author	Hester Dorsey Richardson
Publisher	Williams and Wilkins Company, 1913
Original from	the University of Virginia
Digitized	7 Sep 2007

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