Series C, 1748-1800.

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Series C, 1748-1800.

Executive records. Consists of correspondence, proclamations, depositions, proceedings, commissions, journals, and reports. Contains documents related to the executive branch, Maryland border with Pennsylvania, British debt and the Bank Stock Case, and military movements and supply. Correspondents include governors Robert Eden, Thomas Sim Lee, and Benjamin Ogle, Council of Safety, Committee of Correspondence, and George Washington. See also the Boundary Papers, North and East series [MSA S0988] and the Revolutionary Papers series [MSA S0997]. Some documents arranged chronologically.

2.5 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6764591

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Lee, Thomas Sim, 1745-1819

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Thomas Sim Lee (October 29, 1745 – November 9, 1819) was an American planter and statesman of Frederick County, Maryland. Although not a signatory to the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation or the US Constitution, he was an important participant in the process of their creation. Thomas Sim Lee was the second State Governor of Maryland, serving twice, from 1779 to 1783 and again from 1792 to 1794. Thomas Sim Lee also served as a delegate of Maryland in the Congress of the C...

Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...

Ogle, Benjamin, 1749-1809.

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Eden, Robert, 1741-1784

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Robert Eden was born on 2 September 1804. He was educated at Westminster School and studied at Christ Church, Oxford. He was ordained as a deacon and priest by the Bishop of Gloucester in 1828 and then he served in Weston-sub-Edge in Gloucestershire and at Messing and Peldon in Essex. He became Rector of Leigh, Essex, in 1837. It was while he was in Leigh that he accepted the offer of the Scottish Episcopalian Bishopric of Moray and Ross on the death of Bishop Low, and he was consecrated at St. ...