Bibliography

1850 Census of Anne Arundel Co., MD compiled by John W. Powell, The Anne Arundel County Genealgocial Society. Pasadena MD. 1991 (This is not an index! It is a extract of the entire 1850 Census for Anne Arundel County, including the Howard District,which became Howard County.) It also includes the mortality and slave schedules and a name index!

A Guide to Genealogical Research In Maryland, by Mary Keysor Meyer, Rev. 1992.

A Historical Review of Anne Arundel County by Theodore Gambrall

Anne Arundel County Census 1800 by the Maryland Genealogical Society

Anne Arundel County Church Records of the 17th and 18th Centuries by F. Edward Wright, Family Line Publications, Westminster MD. A comprehensive extract of the Anglican church parish records & registers and West River Friends Meetings records prior to 1800. The Friends (aka Quaker) records include births back to 1658. The Anglican Parishes began their registers in 1692, although some earlier events were also recorded.

Anne Arundel County, Maryland Marriage Records 1777-1877 compiled by John W. Powell, Anne Arundel Genealogy Society, Pasadena, Maryland, 1991.

Anne Arundel Gentry: A Genealogical History of Twenty-Two Pioneers by Harry W. Newman, published in 1933

Calvert County Maryland Genealogical Newsletter also contains considerable material on families in Anne Arundel County. The newsletter is published monthly. Typical issues are 11 to 12 pages. The O'Briens, who publish this newsletter have generated a tremendous amount of material for genealogical research. The address is PO Box 9, Sunderland, Maryland 20689.

Cemetery Inscriptions of Anne Arundel County, Maryland Vol I, compiled by Anne Arundel County Genealogical Society, 1982. Inscriptions from: Salem, Iglehart, Annapolis Neck, Rutland, Edward M.E., Luce Creek, Baldwin Methodist, Owings, Robert Franklin, Sunderland-Prout, St. Marys and St Annes.

Cemetery Inscriptions of Anne Arundel County, Maryland Vol II, compiled by the Anne Arundel County Genealogical Society, 89 sites, including family cemeteries, dates from 1757 to 1987.

Early Settlers of Maryland by Gus Skordas

History of Anne Arundel County by Elihu S. Riley

Maryland Freedom Papers, Volume 1, Anne Arundel County by Jerry M. Hyson, 1996

Maryland Genealogical Research by George K. Schweitzer, PhD ScD. includes some early background on the government of Maryland and available records on a state and county basis.

Maryland Marriages 1634-1777 by Robert Barnes, Genealogical Publishing Co. 1975.

Maryland Marriages 1778-1800 by Robert Barnes, Genealogical Publishing Co. 1978.

Maryland Marriages 1801-1820 by Robert Barnes, Genealgocial Publishing Co. 1993.

Providence Ye Lost Towne At Severn In Mary Land by James E. Moss. While written as a novel, this book is about actual people and events surrounding the founding of Anne Arundel County, as researched by the author, and it includes a number of factual indexes.

Quaker Records of Southern Maryland, 1658-1800, Henry C. Peden Jr., 1992.

The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland, by J. D. Warfield A.M., Kohn & Pollock, Baltimore, Maryland 1905.

The Maryland Gazette 1727-1761 by Karen Mauer Green, Frontier Press, Galveston, 1989. This is an extract of articles and advertisements appearing on the Maryland Gazette from 10 Dec 1728 to 31 Dec 1761 with an index. The Maryland Gazette was printed in Annapolis, first by William Parks. Contains notices of deaths, sales, lost and found livestock, runaway indentured servants, ship arrivals, and uch more information.

Town Neck Hundred of Anne Arundel County: The Land by Gladys Nelker, 1990. Traces ownership of land in Town Neck Hundred from 1652 to 1930.

Family Genealogies and Collections

Annapolis, Maryland, Families, by Robert Harry McIntire, Volumes 1 (1979), 2 (1989), and 3 (2002).
Anne Arundel Gentry (First Edition), Harry Wright Newman.
Anne Arundel Gentry Volume 1, Harry Wright Newman. includes descendants of Burgess, Gassaway, Gaither, Hammond, Ijams, and Warfield families.
Anne Arundel Gentry Volume 2,Harry Wright Newman, Originally published by the author 1971, reprinted Family Line Publications, 1990. Vol.2 of Anne Arundel Gentry contains genealogies for the: Major Thomas Beale family, The descendants of Edward Dorsey, boatwright, the Cadwllader Edwards family, the Matthew Howard family, the four Stockett brothers, the John Waters family, the Richard Wells family and George Yates family.
Anne Arundel Gentry Volume 3 Harry Wright Newman 1979, 1996 covers the Cockey, Harwood, Ridgely, and Todd families.
Early Families of Southern Maryland, Volume 1. by Elise Greenup Jourdan, 1993. This volume includes information on the Cecil, Cissell, Hutchinson, Pile, Orme, Dickeson, Doyne, Griffith, Greenup, Hilliard, Gittings, and Belt families.
Early Families of Southern Maryland, Volume 2, by Elise Greenup Jourdan. 1993. This volume includes information on the Lawrence, Skinner, Letchworth, Mariarte, Childs, Nuthall, Cowman, Grover, & Stephen West families.
Early Families of Southern Maryland, Volume 3, by Elise Greenup Jourdan, 1994. Includes information on the Berrys, Preston, March, Wentlock, Christison, Galloway, Rasin, LeCompte, Gary, Sharp, Wells, Parran, Ashcom, Spinke, Shercliffe, Sollers, Lashley, and Witten families.
Early Families of Southern Maryland, Volume 4, by Elise Greenup Jourdan, 1995. Includes information on the Sterling, Dorrumple, Tracey, James, Ransome, Speake, Rogers, Watkins, Rodham-Mason, Luckett, Tyler, Van Sweringen, Brashears, Courts, Wade, Cheney, and Hawton families.
Maryland Genealogies, A consolidation of Articles from the Maryland Historical Magazine Volume I, indexed by Thomas Hollowak, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1980.
Maryland Genealogies, A consolidation of Articles from the Maryland Historical Magazine Volume II, indexed by Thomas Hollowak, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1980. Anne Arundel County families in this volume include: Linthicum, Lloyd, Marsh, Disney, Selby, Rigbie, Rockhold, Todd, Weems, Winchester, Randall, & Dorsey
Historic Annapolis Families by McIntire.
Colonial Families of Anne Arundel County by Robert Barnes, 1996
Revolutionary Patriots of Anne Arundel County by Henry C. Peden Jr.
Descendants of Richard and Elizabeth (Ewen) Talbott of Popular Knowle, West River, Anne Arundel County Maryland compiled by Ida Morrison (Murphy) Shirk. Baltimore MD 1927. (reprinted Clearfield Co. 1995)

Land

Abstracts of Land Records, Anne Arundel County, Maryland Volume I. edited by Rosemary E. Dodd and Patricia M Bausell, the Anne Arundel County Genealogical Society, Pasedena, MD. Abstracts of Book IH#1 (1662-1703), Book IH#2 (1662-1702), Book IH#3 (1658-1701), Book WH#4 (1656-1702) & Book IT#5 (1653-1699)
Abstracts of Land Records, Anne Arundel County, Maryland Volume II edited by Rosemary B. Dodd & Patricia M. Bausell, the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society, Pasandena, MD. Deed Book WT#1 (1699-1702), Deed Book WT#2 (1703-1709)
Abstracts of Land Records, Anne Arundel County, Maryland Volume III, 1709-1719 edited by Rosemary B. Dodd & Patricia M. Bausell, the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society, Pasandena, MD. Deed Books PK & IB#2
Anne Arundel County, Maryland Land Records 1700-1702, Miami Beach Florida, (ISBN 1-886633-12-6, Extracts of Deed Book WT#1
Anne Arundel County, Maryland Land Records 1703-1709, Miami Beach, Florida. ISBN: 1-886633-13-4. Abstracts of Deed Book WT 2
Anne Arundel County, Maryland Land Records 1708-1712, Miami Beach, Florida. ISBN: 1-886633-14-2, Abstracts of Deed Book PK
Anne Arundel County, Maryland Land Records 1712-1718, Miami Beach, Florida. ISBN: 1-886633-15-0. Abstracts of Deed Book IB#2
Anne Arundel County, Maryland Land Records 1719-1724, Miami Beach, Florida. ISBN: 1-886633-16-9. Abstracts of Deed Books CW#1 and RCW#2
Anne Arundel County, Maryland Land Records 1724-1728, Miami Beach, Florida. ISBN: 886633-17-7. Abstract of Deed Book SY#1
Anne Arundel County, Land Records, 1728-1730 This book has detailed abstracts of Anne Arundel Land Record Books RD#1 and TI#1. At one time, the cost was $10.00 postpaid from PO Box 403369, Miami Beach, FL 33140-1369.
Maryland Rent Rolls: Baltimore and Anne Aundel Counties, 1700-1707, 1705-1724 A Consolidation of articles from the Maryland Historical Magaine, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore MD 1976.

Wills and Probate

Before 1777

Wills and Probate procedings from 1635 to 1777 were recorded at the state level in Maryland with the Prerogative Court. After 1777, the Wills and Probate were filed with the Orphans Court of the Appropriate County. As a result most wills, inventories of estates, and administrative filings for estates prior to 1777 are existent and held by the Maryland State Archives at Annapolis. However, there are a few wills that are referred to in land records, but apparently were never filed or have been lost. Most of the publications of wills and probate records for the era prior to 1777 deal with the state of Maryland as a whole and are not by county.These records have been abstracted and published.

Extract of Wills (The following at extracts of wills listing all persons named, witnesses, tracts of land)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 1, 1635-1685, compiled and edited by Jane Cotton Baldwin, 1904, reprinted by Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 2, 1685-1702, compiled and edited by Jane Cotton Baldwin, 1906, reprinted by Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 3, 1703-1713, compiled and edited by Jane Cotton Baldwin, 1907, reprinted by Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 4, 1713-1720, compiled and edited by Jane Cotton Baldwin, 1914, reprinted by Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 5, 1720-1726, compiled and edited by Jane Cotton Baldwin, reprinted by Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 6, 1726-1732, compiled and edited by Jane Cotton Baldwin, reprinted by Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 7, 1732-1738, compiled and edited by Jane Cotton Baldwin, reprinted by Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 8, 1738-1743, compiled and edited by Jane Cotton Baldwin, reprinted by Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 9, 1744-1749, compiled and edited by F. Edward Wright, Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 10, 1747-1753, compiled and edited by F. Edward Wright, 1991, Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 11, 1753-1760, compiled and edited by F. Edward Wright, Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 12, 1759-1764, compiled and edited by F. Edward Wright, Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 13, 1764-1767, compiled and edited by F. Edward Wright, Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 14, 1767-1772, compiled and edited by F. Edward Wright, 1993, Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 15, 1772-1774, compiled and edited by F. Edward Wright, Family Line Publications. (in print)

The Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol 16, 1774-1777, compiled and edited by F. Edward Wright, Family Line Publications. (in print) This volume also contains corrections to early volumes.

There is also an index for Maryland Wills: Index of Maryland Colonial Wills 1635-1777, J. M. Magruder Jr, 1967 Genealogical Publishing.

Probate Records

The Probate Records include inventories of estates and adminstrative papers filed. Early inventories include extensive lists of debts owed the estate, chattel goods, persons making the survey, in later years the next-to- kin are identified. Adminstrative accounts identify the disposition of the estates assets, often a good source to find who a widow remarried as adminstrator/administrix. Astracts of these records are avaiable/being compiled.

Abstracts of Inventories and Accounts of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1674-1678 and 1699-1703, (Libers 1-5), Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr. 1992, Family Line Publications.

Abstracts of Inventories and Accounts of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1679-1686, (Libers 6, 7A, 7B, 8), Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr. 1992, Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories and Accounts of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1685-1701, (Libers 9, 10, 101c, 11A, 11B), Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr. 1992, Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories and Accounts of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1688-1698, (Libers 12, 13A, 13B, 14, 15), Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr. 1992, Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories and Accounts of the Perrogative Court of Maryland, 1697-1700 (Libers 16, 17, 18, 19 19-1/2A, 19-1/2B), Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr. 1992, Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories and Accounts of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1699-1704, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr, Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories and Accounts of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1699-1708 Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories and Accounts of the Perrogative Court of Maryland,1708-1711 (Libers 29, 30, 31, 32A, 32B), Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr. 1994, Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories and Accounts of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1711-1713, (Libers 32C, 33A, 33B, 34), Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr. 1992, Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories and Accounts of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1712-1716, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories and Accounts of the Perrogative Court of Maryland, 1715-1718 Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1718-1720, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Accounts of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1718-1724, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications.

Abstracts of Inventories of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1724-1727, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., 1991, Family Line Publications (Apparently is out-of-print).

Abstracts of Inventories of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1738-1744, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1744-1748, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1748-1751, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1751-1756, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1755-1760, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications.

Abstracts of Inventories of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1760-1763, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1763-1766, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1766-1769, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1769-1772, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of Inventories of the Perrogative Court of Maryland 1774-1777, Compiled by B. F. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of the Balance Books of the Perrogative Court of Maryland, Liber 1 1751-1755, Compiled by Debby Moxey, Family Line Publications

Abstracts of the Balance Books of the Perrogative Court of Maryland, Libers 2 & 3 1755-1763, Compiled by Vernon L. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of the Balance Books of the Perrogative Court of Maryland, Libers 4 & 5 1763-1770, Compiled by Vernon L. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications

Abstracts of the Balance Books of the Perrogative Court of Maryland, Libers 6 & 7 1770-1777, Compiled by Vernon L. Skinner Jr., Family Line Publications.

There is also a older set (1930s vintage of extracts and indexes that were prepared and published by A. W. Burns.

AFTER 1777

Wills and Probate preceeding were at the County level. Another set of documents of interest in this era were guardian bonds that were required when a minor became owner of property (often through inheritance). Indexes, abstracts, and copies (or original documents) a of these documents are in repositories such as the Maryland Historic Society and and Maryland State Archivesr.

Anne Arundel County Wills Index 1777-1918, By John M. Powell, 1985.

Heirs and Orphans: Anne Arundel County Distributions 1788-1838, by Walter E. Arps Jr., 1984.