Black books, 1636-1785 1636, 1664, 1683, 1702/3-1722, 1725, 1729-1742, 1744-1782, 1784-1785.

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Black books, 1636-1785 1636, 1664, 1683, 1702/3-1722, 1725, 1729-1742, 1744-1782, 1784-1785.

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Executive records. Consists of Provincial Court proceedings, correspondence between Lower and Upper houses of the General Assembly, lists of taxables from various hundreds (1733), petitions, trials of slaves, and documents relating to "loyalists," ca. 1777. Correspondents include governors, menbers of the General Assembly, Convention of Maryland, Council of Safety, John Adams, John Jay, and a foreign minister from Denmark (1784). Arranged numerically by inventory number.

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Maryland State Archives

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