Galloway-Maxcy-Markoe Families Papers

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Galloway-Maxcy-Markoe Families Papers

1654-1888

Correspondence, business records, financial records, legal documents, speeches, reports, essays, memoranda, and other papers of members of the Galloway, Maxcy (Maxey), and Markoe families relating to economic conditions in Maryland and foreign affairs and political events in the 1840s and 1850s.

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Markoe, Francis, 1801-1871

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Hoffman, David, 1784-1854

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Tasker, Benjamin, 1720-1760

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Cheston family

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Kent, James, 1763-1847

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These maps were compiled over a period of years by Chancellor Kent, a well-known American jurist who was a dominant state supreme court judge in New York throughout the Federalist era. The extensive manuscript annotations are in his hand. These notes are often dated, some as early as the 1820s and others as late as 1840. It is unclear what prompted Kent to assemble this volume, but a possible reason was his interest in missionary activities, often referred to in the notes, which display an intim...

Story, Joseph, 1779-1845

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Cass, Lewis, 1808-1878

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Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850

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Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864

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Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Albert, J. J.

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Chew family

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Markoe family.

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Galloway, John, -1810

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Cheston family

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Howard family

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