No comments about Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810 (#9406).

No comments about Montgomery County, Maryland, Families: A Collection of Genealogies of Early Families of Montgomery County, Maryland: Vol. 2.

No comments about Frederick County, Maryland Church and Cemetery Records, Volume 5.

No comments about Side-lights on Maryland History with Sketches of Early Maryland Families 2 vols..

No comments about History of Harford County, Maryland.

1 comments about The Very Quiet Baltimoreans: A Guide to the Historic Cemeteries and Burial Sites of Baltimore.

1. I feel that this book should be titled "Ms. Wilson's Take on Baltimore Cemeteries and Society."
   
   I question her need to reinforce the "Who's Who" of the cemeteries. This reads more as a social registry. The length of review for each cemetery is directly related to the number of famous people interred in a particular cemetery (at least those who measure up to Ms. Wilson standard of famous or prominent). Some of the smaller burial sites have WONDERFUL significance, but this is lost on Ms. Wilson due to the lack of prominent Baltimore family names.
   
   Her tone and some of her statements can be seen as just an injection of opinion and based very little on fact. Two cemeteries in the Baltimore enclave that I have recently researched turned up some examples of this. In reference to Most Holy Redeemer (one of the largest Catholic cemeteries in the city)and interment site of many influential Italian Families, Ms. Wilson states that "the cemetery, though attractive and well kept, is not otherwise remarkable." This is purely opinion with no factual basis. In her discussion of Jewish Cemeteries in the city, she briefly touched on B'nai Israel Congregation Cemetery. It only took her two paragraphs to discuss the burying ground for 32 congregations, one of these being the Lloyd Street Synagogue (a very important Baltimore institution). Out of the two paragraphs related to this burying ground, one is a commentary on Jewish custom:
   "One curious custom is seen here and elsewhere in Jewish cemeteries and that is the leaving of small stones on the markers. This is to indicate that the grave has been recently visited. As the stones can damage mowers, the caretakers find the custom infuriating."
   This seems completely out of place as part of the discussion of this particular site as well as a poorly worded comment on Jewish custom that could be taken by some as inflammatory or condescending. However, these are prime examples of the tone and commentary throughout the book. As I have only researched the small area of Gardenville, in Northeast Baltimore City, I can only speak to the way cemeteries in this areas were particularly addressed. I feel confident in saying that if this is the approach for this particular community, it is probably characteristic of her approach across tha board and in all communities.
   
   If you want a source that pays homage to the upper echelons of early Baltimore society and the "blue blood families" of a by-gone era, then this is the book for you. If you want a truly serious study of cemeteries and burials in Baltimore, you'll need to write one... it doesn't exist!
   
   All in all, "The Very Quiet Baltimoreans" had the potential to be a beautiful book. It could have been an exquisite "coffee table" book with glowing photos of beautiful, sprawling garden cemeteries, such as Louden Park, and quaint family plots, such as the Furley Family cemetery. It could have packed a powerful punch with detailed history and background on the various communities. These tight communities have created the culture of Baltimore city as many seemed eager to have thier dead buried close by, near their homes or houses of worship. Ms. Wilson failed in both areas and that is a tragedy.
   
   Her focus on "Society" made her lose sight of the greater significance of society.

No comments about Marriages and Deaths in the Newspapers of Frederick and Montgomery Counties, Maryland, 1820-1830.

No comments about Quaker records of Baltimore and Harford counties, Maryland, 1801-1825: Births, deaths, marriages, removals, and abstracts from the monthly minutes.

1 comments about The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate.

1. The Flowering Of The Maryland Palatinate describes the lives and times of the two hundred adventurers who participated in the original expedition to Maryland in 1634, describing in detail their part in the founding and settlement of the colony, and the development of colonial Maryland's distinctive manorial system. Consisting principally of biographical and genealogical sketches of these two hundred settlers drawn by genealogist Harry Wright Newman from contemporary court records, letters, and miscellaneous papers, The Flowering Of The Maryland Palatinate is not only a definitive history of thee early Marylanders, but has done for genealogical research the same kind of seminal and groudbreaking work for the passengers of the Ark and the Dove, that took a legion of genealogical researchers to perform regarding the passengers of the Mayflower. The Flowering Of The Maryland Palatinate is highly recommended for personal, professional, academic, genealogical center, and public library genealogical and colonial era reference collections.

2 comments about The Ark And the Dove Adventurers.

1. In November 1633 the 358-ton Ark and the 26-ton Dove sailed from the Isle of Wight in England, transporting some 125 colonists to settle the Proprietary Province of Maryland. This new work, The Ark and the Dove Adventurers, is the first comprehensive account of these original Maryland colonists, and it contains compiled genealogies of their descendants to the fifth generation when possible, much like the five-generation project of the Mayflower Society or the six generation project of the Order of First Families of Virginia. It is an authoritative and significant contribution to early Maryland history and genealogy and places Maryland "first families" on a par with the first families of Massachusetts and Virginia. Because there are no recorded passenger lists for the Ark and Dove, the compilers have mined alternative record sources in order to reconstruct the rosters of passengers and crew and establish the genealogical links and vital statistics that make up the heart of this book. These sources include the Maryland Land Patent Books; the minutes, proceedings, and records of the Maryland Prerogative Court, Chancery Court, Provincial Court, and the Assembly; the land, probate, court, tax, and other records of the original counties; the registers of the earliest churches; and Harry Wright Newman's The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate. Countless other sources are cited in footnotes. Edited by noted Maryland genealogists George Ely Russell, former editor of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, and Donna Valley Russell, both Fellows of the American Genealogical Society, the work is divided into three parts:
   
   Part One is devoted to Sir George Calvert (Lord Baltimore), the founder of Maryland, and his descendants.
   
   Part Two, which comprises the majority of this work, presents biographical accounts of passengers known to have had families, plus genealogies of descendants, extended to the fifth generation.
   James Baldridge
   Major Thomas Baldridge
   Anam Benum
   John Briscoe
   William Brown
   Leonard Calvert
   Thomas Cornwallis
   Ann Cox
   William Edwin
   Cuthbert Fenwick
   Captain Henry Fleete
   Richard Gerard
   Richard Gilbert
   Thomas Greene
   John Hallowes
   Nicholas Harvey
   Richard Lowe
   John Neville
   Richard Nevitt
   John Price
   Robert Smith
   Ann Smithson
   Robert Vaughan
   Robert Wiseman
   
   Part Three describes the passengers who are not known to have had descendants. Also included are some later arrivals previously and erroneously claimed as 1634 settlers, and some spurious or doubtful claims of descendants.
   
   In addition, the book contains a comprehensive Index, compiled by Jane Fletcher Fiske, FASG, naming approximately 6,000 individuals, with women listed under both maiden names and married names.
   
   About The Society of The Ark and The Dove
   In 1910 some descendants of the Maryland pioneers, headed by George Norbury MacKenzie, gathered in Baltimore and formed The Society of The Ark and The Dove ­øto perpetuate the memory of the first families of Maryland, and to provide opportunities for fellowship for all those who trace their descent from Lord Baltimore and from those who came on the Ark and the Dove in 1634 to settle the Proprietary Province of Maryland.­ The Society continues to encourage research in early Maryland history and promotes its goals through a variety of programs and publications.



2. If your family history research leads you to Maryland and some of the original European settlers, then this book is an excellent source book. The Ark and Dove were the first ships to Maryland; i.e. Maryland's Mayflower.
   The Ark and Dove Society (present day) provides the reader with a short history and then the genealogy of the original settlers. Source documentation is provided in the footnotes.