Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Carbery Family Collection constitutes an extensive collection of materials about a number of related families which were prominent in the history of the state of Maryland. The following families are represented: Boyle, Brown, Carbery, Key, McSherry, Scott, Shriver, and Taney, among others. Many types of documents are preserved, including correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and genealogical charts. The documents derive mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Carbery...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Series 3 contains correspondence, mostly to Robert Fergusson, a tobacco merchant in Port Tobacco, Maryland. Correspondents include merchant James Brown, Maryland tobacco merchant Alexander Hamilton, Dumfries [Virginia] merchant George Gray, Virginia merchant Alexander Henderson, and others. Discussion of business matters. A few of the letters were sent from Scotland. Documents date 1717-1810. Arranged chronologically in forty-seven (47) folders.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Nidiffer Collection consists of 741 documents, about 600 of which are deeds, all concerning transactions in Washington City and County and Georgetown, all in the District of Columbia between 1817 and 1886. The documents are arranged chronologically one to a folder in 8 boxes.* * * * * * *The Nidiffer Collection contains an interesting documentary account of personal and family business transactions in the District of Columbia in the nineteenth century. About 600...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Seumas MacManus Family Collection contains letters and manuscripts by and about Seumas MacManus (1869-1960), a prominent Irish author of folktales who lectured extensively throughout the United States and published widely. These materials document fascinating aspects of MacManus' writing career, and they provide primary source materials about his family.The collection includes a small number of letters from notables to Seumas MacManus, including Theodore Dreiser, Maud Gonne,...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Seumas MacManus Family Collection contains letters and manuscripts by and about Seumas MacManus (1869-1960), a prominent Irish author of folktales who lectured extensively throughout the United States and published widely. These materials document fascinating aspects of MacManus' writing career, and they provide primary source materials about his family.The collection includes a small number of letters from notables to Seumas MacManus, including Theodore Dreiser, Maud Gonne,...

Scope and Contents Letterbooks: Copy book of letters sent. 1833-1836, 1839-1843: letters concern the sale of land, standards set for hired help, relations with tenants, interest payments; and attempts to secure payments from Jesse Batey and Henry Johnson, who purchased enslaved people from the Province in 1838. Includes a transcript of a letter written by John McElroy on Eliza who was withheld from the sale and others who ran away before it was completed. A letter dated October 16, 1834 written to John McElroy...