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Ed Papenfuse, Managing Editor

current transcription and editing projects:

I. Guides to Records in Baltimore County and Baltimore City created by the Works Progress Administration, including the imaging and transcription of a series of records inventoried by the WPA at the Baltimore City Archives relating to Baltimore and the War of 1812. 

a project in part funded by the Baltimore County Genealogical Society the goal of which is to make the indexing of the Baltimore County and City records by the Works Progress Administration in the late 1930s more readily accessible

II. Research relating to the history of Baltimore

A) Papenfuse: Atlases and Maps of Baltimore City and County, 1876-1915 & Block Maps in the Circuit Court Land Office as of April 2005

B) Cases relating to Baltimore City decided by the Court of Appeals or in Federal Court for which full documentation does not appear in LEXIS or WESTLAW

Cases decided by the Maryland Court of Appeals that relate to Baltimore City

Federal cases decided by Judges Taney and Giles, 1861-1863

C) Ground Rents in Baltimore City:  John Eager Howard's Estate

III. Records in other than Maryland repositories that relate to Maryland History, or relate to events that were followed closely in Maryland

Dispatches (despatches)  of British Consul Frederic Bernal from Baltimore, 1861-1866, from the British Archives (formerly the Public Record Office)

The Trial of John White Webster in his own words and contemporary newspaper accounts, 1850 (available after 11/2006)

Webster's trial notes from the Massachusetts Historical Society

newspaper accounts

a juror's notes and reading habits of Bostonians and Baltimoreans, ca. 1850

a letter from the Harvard University Library, December 21, 1849, missed by Professor Schama?
 

IV. Documentation for a lecture Mimetic Impulse (The Buying Habits of Revolutionary Annapolis, 1765-1777)

Maryland State Archives, CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers, Exhibits) Wallace Davidson & Johnson, Order Books, MSA S 528-27/28

see also the accompanying letter books edited and introduced by Professor Jacob Price at British History on Line

V. The Records of Colonial Maryland:
 

1) The Horsey Collection of Lee, Horsey, and Carroll Family Papers, msa_sc1848

2) The Kitty Knight Questers Conservation and Transcription Project of Kent County Court and Register of Wills Records:
 

KENT COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills), 1781-1790, MSA C 1107-9

3)  The Records of Colonial Maryland at the Maryland State Archives in 1947/1948

The Huntington Library Collection of Maryland State Archives Colonial Public Records Security Microfilm (available after 2008/12/19)

 

 

(last revised 2008/10/04)