Maryland Sidelights - Early Pioneers

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Sidelights On
Maryland History
With Sketches of
Early Maryland Families
Volumes I & II
By Hester Dorsey Richardson 1913
459 + 498 pages
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This landmark of Maryland genealogy consists of a large number of meticulously researched articles which were designed, in part, to counter the "scurrilous" claim that Maryland was settled largely by convicts and indentured servants. It is as a compilation of family histories and source records that the work shines, however, for it is the embodiment of the very best in genealogical orthodoxy.
Volume I contains seventy-five chapters, or articles, on a variety of subjects, among them articles on the passengers on the Ark and the Dove, the first Maryland settlers, muster rolls of colonial militia, original members of the Society of the Cincinnati in Maryland, the names of 1,000 early settlers in Maryland with their land surveys, Scotch exiles in Maryland, etc.
Volume II consists entirely of genealogical sketches which carry over 100 Maryland families back to the immigrant ancestor. Profusely illustrated with coats of arms, photographs, and rare portraits!
“Side-Lights on Maryland History are not intended to
take the place of a sustained historical work, presenting
a complete chronological history of the old Common-
wealth, but are rather the gleanings of the author from
the manuscript records of the State and the original Cal-
vert papers, many of which were imknown or not easily
accessible to the earlier students of Maryland history.
“The articles now collected under the same title as when
published serially in the Baltimore Sunday ''Sun" from
May 17, 1903, to December 25, 1904, were written princi-
pally from the data collected during many years devoted
to the daily study of the unindexed manuscript records of
the State, as a purely antiquarian fad, without any thought
of preparing the information gleaned for publication.
“Full of charming surprises, the records of Maryland
proved more fascinating than the most thrilling novel,
because teeming with the romance and adventure of a real
and glorious people.
“Finding this reading of the records at first hand
many facts of interest unnoted by earlier historians, and
learning through this intimate acquaintance with the early
settlers their high social, moral and educational status,
the writer felt it her duty to bring to light truths which
would forever silence many calumnies under which Mary-
land has suffered from some of her old historians; for
while the latter have claimed convict and plebian classes
as Maryland settlers, the author's researches have taught
her that Maryland, the Palatinate of the Lords Baltimore,
in which they possessed royal rights and privileges, was
not one of ''Their Majesties' Plantations'' to which con-
victs were transported by royal mandate, and established
beyond question that Maryland was not a penal colony,
but was settled by "gentlemen adventurers" in very
large numbers. Instead of convicts there were ladies
of high degree and courtiers from the English capital;
instead of a penal colony, she found that the Lords Bal-
timore had a little kingdom ''beyond seas" to which the
"Conditions of Plantations," offered by the Proprietary,
attracted many land-hungry young Englishmen of good
blood and adventurous spirit — the spirit of the pioneer —
while the religious liberty proclaimed to all men gathered
here from all parts of the world the persecuted for "con-
science' sake."
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