ON

MARYLAND HISTORY

WITH

SKETCHES OF EARLY MARYLAND FAMILIES

BY

HESTER DORSEY RICHARDSON

Special Executive Historian to represent Maryland in Historic Work
at The Jamestown Exposition, 1907; President Public Records Com-
mission of Maryland 1904-6; Vice-President of the Mary-
land Original Research Society; Member of The American
Historical Association; The Maryland Historical
Society; President of The Order of Colonial
Lords of Manors in America; A Fellow of
The Manorial Society of England.

BALTIMORE

WILLIAMS AND WILKINS COMPANY

MDCCCCXIII

COPYRIGHTED 1903

COPYRIGHTED 1904

COPYRIGHTED 1913

BY

HESTER DORSEY RICHARDSON