Scope and Contents

The collection consists of materials related to the Carroll family that were assembled or created by Charles V.P. von Luttichau, a direct descendent of Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note

This collection contains the letters written by members of the Causten family over the period 1805-1820.

Scope and Contents The papers of R. Emmett Curran, a longtime history professor at Georgetown University, consist of historical research material concerning two major topics: the history of Georgetown University and the history of the Catholic Church in America. The Georgetown University portion of the collection includes typed biographical files documenting faculty who taught at the college from 1789 to 1920 and students who attended the college from 1789 to 1955. The Georetown University-related material...

Scope and contents note The Richard X. Evans Collection consists of family papers of or relating to the Smith, Mills, Dimitry, and Evans families. The bulk of the earliest material deals with the professional and private life of Robert Mills (1781-1855), who was State Engineer and Architect of South Carolina (1820-1830), Architect of Public Buildings of the United States (1836-1851), and designer of many houses and monuments, among them the Washington monuments of Baltimore and the District of Columbia. Alexander...

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, and newspaper clippings by and about the Smith, Mills, and Dimitry families. The bulk of the collection consists of correspodence.

Content Description

Collection consists of materials relating to the Brent, Carroll and Chilton families of Maryland and the District of Columbia, dating from late 17th to early 20th centuries, but primarily from the 19th century.

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Content Description Materials relating to the Broad Neck tract located at St . Clement's Manor, St. Mary's County. Includes boundary disputes, indentures, depositions. The property was originally granted to Thomas Gerard, whose daughter married the noted rebel leader of 1689, Kenelm Cheseldyne or Cheseldine [sp. var.]. The collection also includes a list of deaths in St . Mary's County from 1806-1844 as well as miscellaneous material. Copies of this collection are available at the Manuscripts Division of the...

Scope and Contents

The collection contains property leases, deeds, legal briefs, copies of wills, letters, family records, warrants, land surveys, charts, notes, and "fragments". The records primarily relate to property in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

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Content Description Articles, monographs and printed source material relating to history of Catholic families in Maryland, and Southern American history including American Civil War.Folder list1. Browning, Sister Mary Carmel, OSU. Think Big: A partial biography of Reverend Tong, SJ. (1970). Inscribed by the author to Smith. 2. Smith, Lancaster. “Impeaching a ‘National Expert’ in a Catastrophic Collision Case.” For the Defense, vol. 23, no. 6, June 1981. 3. St. Ferdinand’s...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, financial records, daybooks, ledgers, clippings and photographs pertaining to the Tilghman family and their plantation in Queen Anne's County, Maryland (The Hermitage). References to noted members of the family, including Colonel Richard Tilghman and Matthew Tilghman, occur among the records. Also contained in the papers is a journal kept by Stedman R. Tilghman, describing his travels through the West in 1843, including detailed accounts of American Indian culture and...