PG Tricentennial Prince George's County:
Over 300 years of History


FAMILIES & FAMOUS PEOPLE [INCLUDES GENEALOGIES]
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* Special Sources:
The Prince George's County Genealogical Society
History Division M-NCPPC, contains photos and information on Prince George's families.
* Adams, Katharine Beall. Maryland Heritage: A Family History. Hillsborough, NC: 1983, 421 pp., [Beall and allied families]. Available at FDML, PGCHS, PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Baker, Elizabeth Hopkins. Mullikins of Maryland. State College, PA: 1932, [205 pp.]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Baltz, Shirley Vlasak. A Chronicle of Belair, Bowie. Bowie Heritage Committee: 1984, [includes a history of the Belair estate and a genealogy of the Ogle family]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS, PGCGS. FAMILIES, TOWNS

* Beall, Fielder M. Beall and Bell Families, Colonial Families Descended From the Immigrants. Washington, D.C.: Charles H. Potter & Co. Available at MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MHSL. FAMILIES

* A Bibliography of Published Genealogical Source Records, Prince George's County, MD. PGCGS: 1975, Revised 1986, Call # 929.3P. [Research guides; gazetteers; cemetery, court, land, military, probate, and vital records. A list of typescript and mimeographed documents with their location is also given.] Available at PGCGS, PGCML. FAMILIES, DEMOGRAPHICS

* Borchers, Dennis Mott. Thomas Lamarr the Immigrant-300 Years of Descendants. Omaha: 1977, LC # 77-82890. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Bouchier, Jonathan. Reminisces of an American Loyalist, 1738-1789. [Autobiography of Rev. Jonathan Boucher, Rector of Annapolis in Maryland & Vicar of Epsom, Surrey, England], New York: Kennikat Press, Inc., 1925, LC # 67-27577. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Bowie, Effie Gwynn. Across the Years in Prince George's County. Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, 1947, Call # 929.1B. [904 pp.]. Repr. GPC: Baltimore, MD, 1975, [biographies & genealogies of the county's oldest families, often tracing their land holdings]. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Bowie, Walter Worthington. The Bowies and Their Kindred: A Genealogical & Biographical History. Louisiana: Polyanthos, Inc., 1971, LC # 74-172558. [Includes sections on Berry, Chew, Clagett, Contee, Eversfield, Marbury, Waring]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS; MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch. FAMILIES, TOWNS

* Brashear, Henry S. The Brashear-Brashears Family, 1449-1929. Privately printed: 1929, [326 pp.]. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Burch, Jane Augusta. The Last Path-Finding Pioneer (Edward Fitzgerald Beale): 1973, [unpublished paper]. Available at FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Burch, Jane Augusta. T. Raymond Burch Family Genealogy. [Unpublished paper], "From the Register of Maryland Heraldic Families from 1634- 1935," With Manorial Rights of the Landed Gentry: 1989. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Buswell, David H. A Brief History of Montpelier. 1962, [unpublished paper]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES, HOUSES, TOWNS

* The Calvert Mansion, "Riversdale," 1801-1850. M-NCPPC: 1950, Call # 975.251M, [43 pp., History of the mansion and the Calvert families who lived there]. Available at MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; PGCHS. FAMILIES, HOUSES, SITES, TOWNS

* Campbell, Helen Jones. The Case for Mrs. Surratt. New York: G.P. Putnam Sons, 1943, 272 pp. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. [Landover Hills] FAMILIES

* Clark, Edythe Maxey. William Pumphrey of Prince George's County, Maryland, and His Descendants. Anundsen Publishing Co.: 1992, [148 pp.]. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Clark, Edythe Maxey. William Webster of Prince George's County, Maryland. Anundsen Publishing Co.: 1993, [172 pp.]. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Clark, Elizabeth Clagett. The Clagetts of Keokuk. 1986, Call # 929.2C, [Clagett family, Keokuk farm]. Available at PGCML. FAMILIES

* Clemmer, R. Michael. Dr. Chatalain, Montpelier: 1978, [unpublished paper]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Cook, William Grover (b. 1910). Montpelier & the Snowden Family. Edited by Carol-Jean Webster, Laurel, MD: 1976, Call # CS71.S62, [356 pp., ill., coat of arms, index]. Available at PGCML, PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Cross, Sandra Ann. Cook Family: 1986, [unpublished paper]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES, TOWNS

* Cross, Sandra. Margaret Cook, Preservationist. [An Address Delivered to the Prince George's County Historical Society, 1990]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Darrow, George M. The Strawberry; History, Breeding & Physiology. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966, LC # 66-12155. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Dawson, Wayne E. History & Ancestry of Rev. John Foster, 1735-1800 -- His Life, His Family, His Ancestry: 1984, [unpublished paper]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS, PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Donnelly, Sister Mary Louise. Craycrofts of Maryland and Kentucky Kin. Privately printed: 1982, [386 pp.]. Available at FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* "Early Settlers of Maryland 1634-1684," Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin. Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 6-8, [a brief description of the six classes of Maryland colonists]. Available at MHSL, MGSL, MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch. FAMILIES, GENERAL HISTORY

* Earwaker, J.P. Christopher Lowndes of Bladensburg, "History of Sandback." "Lowndes Family," Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. II, No. 3, September 1907: 1979. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES, TOWNS

* Edmonston, Charles Ninian. My Own Edmonstons and a Few Others. San Francisco, CA: privately printed, 1971. [372 pp.]. Available at PGCGS, MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MHSL. FAMILIES, TOWNS

* Elias, Robert H. and Finch, Eugene D. Letters of Thomas Attwood Digges (1742-1821). Columbia, S.C.: Univ. of S. Carolina Press, 1982, ISBN 0-87249-412-8. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Everton, George B., Sr. The Handy Book For Genealogists. 7th ed. Logan, UT: The Everton Publishers, 1981. [378 pp., general Maryland info.] Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Excerpts From the Maryland Gazette, 1745-1785, Concerning Christopher Lowndes of Bostwick, Bladensburg, MD. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES, TOWNS Fennell, Luther W. The Snowdens of Montpelier 1670-1831. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES, TOWNS

* Geiger, Sister M. Virginia. Daniel Carroll II: One Man and His Descendants 1730-1978. College of Notre Dame, MD: 1979, LC # 79-63162. Available at the FDML, PGCHS, MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Gooden, Karen Lesla Williams. A Cross Borne: A Biography of Judge James Franklyn Bourne, Jr. 1993. [First black judge in Prince George's County]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. BLACK HISTORY, FAMILIES

* Green, Karen. The Maryland Gazette 1727-1807. Galveston: The Frontier Press, 1989. [Genealogical and historical abstracts]. Available at the History Division, M-NCPPC. FAMILIES, NEWSPAPERS

* Griffiths, George R. The Berrys of Maryland; an Old Prince George's County Family. Adams Press: 1977, Call # 929.2G. Available at PGCGS, PGSML. FAMILIES

* Guide to Genealogical Records in the National Archives, Washington, D.C. National Archives & Records Service: 1982, [304 pp.]. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Hallowell, Benjamin. Benjamin Hollowell: An Autobiography. Philadelphia: Friends' Book Assoc., 1883. [394 pp.] Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Heads of Families From the First Census of the U.S. Taken in the Year 1790: Maryland. U.S. Bureau of Census, GPO: 1907, Call # 317.52U. Available at PGCML, GPC Reprint 1977, PGCGS. DEMOGRAPHICS, FAMILIES

* Hodges, Kenneth F. The Hodges Family of "Omaha Hill," Prince George's County, Maryland: 1988, [unpublished paper]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Jacobus, Donald L. Index to Genealogical Periodicals. 3 V. (1932) 1969. [Covers period 1858-1952]. Available at MGSL, PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Jensen, Mary Elizabeth and Queen, Henry Jerningham. The Ancestors and Descendants of Charles Jerningham Queen, Prince George's County, MD, and His Wife, Lillian Agnes Clark. Syracuse, NY: Typescript, author, 1985, [343 pp.], and supplement. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES

* The John Carroll Papers, Vol 1-4, 1735-1815. Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, ISBN 0-268-01186-9. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. CHURCHES, FAMILIES

* Kellock, Katherine A. Colonial Piscataway in Maryland. Alice Ferguson Foundation: 1962, Call # 975.251K, [Piscataway, 1600-1775, Colonial Period; includes chart of early tracts laid out before April 23, 1696, and genealogy of some early Piscataway families.] Available at PGCML, AFF, PGCGS. FAMILIES, INDIANS, TOWNS, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS

* Kirkland, K.D. Colt, America's Premier Gunmakers. New York: Exeter Books, 1988, ISBN 0-671-0969-X. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. [Greenbelt] FAMILIES, TOWNS

* Lanham, William Joseph. The Lanham Family's 17th Century Origins from Maryland's Eastern Shore: 1984, [unpublished paper]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES, TOWNS

* Lucas, Olive. Prince George's County, Maryland 1800 Census. Baltimore, MD: Maryland Genealogical Society, 1969, [40 pp., heads of families and breakdowns by age groups]. Available at the MHSL, PGCHS, PGCGS, PGCML (Hyattsville Branch). DEMOGRAPHICS, FAMILIES

* Major, Nettie Leitch. "Rozer, Young, Carroll, Brent: Colonial Marylanders 'Lost' by the Formation of the District of Columbia." Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin. Vol. 19 (Fall 1978), pp. 293- 302. Available at PGCGS; MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MHSL; MSL. FAMILIES

* Martin, Ralph G. Cissy: The Extraordinary Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson, 1854-1989. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979, ISBN 0-671- 22557-X, [512 pp.] Available at FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Maryland Genealogies: A Consolidation of Articles From the Maryland Historical Magazine. Baltimore, MD: GPC, 1980, 2 v., [549, 548 pp.]. Available at PGCGS; MHSL; MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MSL. FAMILIES

* Maryland: Heads of Families 1790 Census. U.S. Bureau of Census - GPO, 1907, Reprinted Baltimore, MD: GPC, 1977, [189 pp.]. Available at the PGCGS, PGCHS, MHSL. DEMOGRAPHICS, FAMILIES

* Maryland's Historical & Cultural Museums Directory. Maryland Historical & Cultural Publications, Crownsville, MD, June 1993, ISBN: 1-878399-52-7, pp. 19-23, Prince George's County Museums. [Airmen Memorial Museum, Belair Mansion & Belair Stable Museum, Calvert Mansion (Riversdale), Chesapeake Beach Railway Museum, College Park Airport Museum, Darnall's Chance, Ft. Washington Park, Greenbelt Museum, Howard B. Owens Science Ctr, Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum, Laurel Historical Society, Marietta Mansion, Montpelier Mansion (M-NCPPC), NASA/Goddard Visitor Center & Museum, National Colonial Farm, Accokeek Foundation/Piscataway Park, Prince George's County Hall of Fame, Surratt House Museum & Visitor Center, W.H. Duvall Tool Museum, William Sydney Pitman Museum & African-American Historical Society]. ARCHITECTURE, AVIATION, BLACK HISTORY, FAMILIES, GENERAL HISTORY, HOUSES, MILITARY, MUSEUMS, SITES, TECHNOLOGY, TOWNS, TRANSPORTATION

* Meder, Gloria. Along the Potomac Shore in Prince George's County; a Local History from Tanta-Cove Garden Club. Tanta-Cove Garden Club: 1983, Call # 975.251M. [Bibliography, incl. bldgs., 100 pp., ill., a local history of Manors, families and churches]. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES, CHURCHES, GENERAL HISTORY

* Melville, Annabelle M. John Carroll of Baltimore: Founder of the American Catholic Hierarchy, 1735-1815. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955, LC # 55-7195, [338 pp.]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS; PGCGS. CHURCHES, FAMILIES

* Meyer, Mary Keysor. Genealogical Research in Maryland - A Guide. Baltimore, MD: MHS, Rev. 1983, [45 pp.] Available at MHSL. FAMILIES

* Neal, Colleen Stone. Lest We Forget - A Guide to Genealogical Research in the Nation's Capital. Annandale, VA: Annandale Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: 1982. [104 pp., Detailed info. on what, where, & how to find genealogical info. in major D.C. research centers]. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Newman, Harry Wright (1894). The Maryland Semmes & Kindred Families; a Genealogical History of Marmaduke Summe(s), Gent., and His Descendants, including the Allied Families of Greene, Simpson, Boarman, Matthews, Thompson, Middleton & Neale. MHS: 1965, Call # 929.2N, [341 pp.]. Available at MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch, MHSL, MSL. FAMILIES

* Newman, Harry Wright. Maureen Duvall of Middle Plantation: 1952. [A genealogical history of Maureen Duvall, Gent., of the Province of MD and his descendants with Histories of the Allied families of Tyler, Clarke, Poole, Hall & Merriken], Baltimore, MD, Port City Press. Available at PGCGS; MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MHSL; MSL. FAMILIES

* Newman, Harry Wright. The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate. Washington, D.C.: the author, 1961. [359 pp., covers biographies and early genealogy of the Adventurers on the "Ark" and the "Dove."], Available at PGCHS, MHSL. FAMILIES

* Newman, Harry Wright. To Maryland From Overseas. Baltimore, MD: GPC, 1985. [190 pp., A complete digest of the Jacobite Loyalists sold into white slavery in Maryland, and the British and Continental background of approx. 1400 Maryland settlers from 1634 to the early Federal period.] Available at MHSL, MSL, PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Otis, James (1848-1912). Calvert of Maryland: A Story of Lord Baltimore's Colony, 1606-1647. Riverdale, MD: PGCHS, 1991. (Reprint of NY: American Book Co., 1910), Call # 0, [166 pp., ill.] Available at PGCML. FAMILIES

* Parran, Alice Norris. Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families. Baltimore, MD: 1935, 1938, [Vol. 1, 408 pp.; Vol. II, 352 pp.]. Available at MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; PGCGS; PGCHS; MSL. FAMILIES

* Passano, Eleanor P. An Index of Source Records of Maryland. Baltimore, MD: 1940. [478 pp., lists all known 1940 references to Maryland records of genealogical, biographical and historical interest]. Available at PGCGS, MHSL, PGCHS, MSL. FAMILIES, DEMOGRAPHICS

* Pettengill, Samuel. My Story. Lebanon, N.H.: Whitman Press, Inc., 1979. ISBN # 0-9602392-1-9, LC # 78-78208, [Includes history of Clagett family]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Phipps, George Mitchell. John Mitchell of Mitchellville: 1965. [Unpublished paper] Available at the FDML, PGCHS; PGCGS. FAMILIES, TOWNS

* Prince George's County Genealogical Society Member Surname Index File: 1986. [Contains names of persons being researched by members of the society with locale, time period, and a code designation which identifies the researcher.] Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Ramsburgh, Edith Roberts. "Sir Dudley Digges, His English Ancestry & the Digges Lines in America." DAR Magazine, Vol. LVII, No. 3, March 1923, p. 125. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Richardson, Hester Dorsey. Side-Lights on Maryland History. Baltimore, MD: Williams and Wilkins, 1913. Reprint Baltimore, MD: Tidewater, 1967. [Vol. I, 500 pp., Vol. II, 564 pp., Includes Lords of the Manor, Maryland Colonial Militia, names of 1,000 settlers of Maryland and their earliest land surveys. Vol. II has much on early families.] Available at MHSL; PGCHS; MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MSL. FAMILIES, GENERAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS, MILITARY.

* Rogers, Ellen S. Genealogical Periodical Annual Index. 4 V., 1963- 1967. [Covers period 1962-1965.] Available at the MGS, PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Rowland, Ralph S., and Star W. Wilsons and Burchells and Related Families 1608-1976. Fairfax, VA: the authors, 1976, [356 pp., Includes P.G. County connected families Wilson, Piles, Hilleary, Sprigg, Mariate, Nuthall.] Available at MHSL. FAMILIES

* Russell, George E. Genealogical Periodical Annual Index. 4 V., 1967- 1973. [Covers period 1966-1969.] Available at the MGSL, PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Ryon, Tina M. The Ancestors and Descendants of William Smith Ryon. Anundsen Publishing Co.: 1989, [72 pp.]. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Sasscer, Frederick. Occasional Addresses: 1925. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES

* Schaun, George and Virginia. Maryland: Biographical Sketches. Lanham: Maryland Historical Press, 1984, ISBN 0-917882-15-6, [218 pp., Casebound, biographies of 60 prominent figures who helped shape the state of Maryland; from Queen Henrietta Maria to Clara Barton to Babe Ruth. Photographs and illustrations.] Available from publisher. FAMILIES

* Smith, Seymour Wemyss. John Hanson, Our First President. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932, [160 pp.]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES Society of the Pilgrims of St. Mary's, Maryland, Bicentennial Celebration 1776-1976, also Archbishop John Carroll, 1735-1815. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES, TOWNS

* Sullivan, Larry E., and Cox, Richard. A Guide to the Research Collections of the Maryland Historical Society. Baltimore, Maryland: MHS, 1981, [354 pp.]. [Listing of historical and genealogical manuscripts and oral history interviews.] Available at MHSL. FAMILIES, GENERAL HISTORY

* Towle, Laird C., et al. Genealogical Periodical Annual Index, Bowie, Maryland. Heritage Books, Volumes 13-29, [Covers years 1974-1990]. Available at the MGSL, PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Tyng, Charles Rockland. Record of the Life & Work of the Rev. Stephen Higginson Tyng, D.D. (1800-1885), and History of St. George's Church, NY to the Close of his Rectorship. Dutton: 1890, Call # BIOGRAPHY TYNG T. Available at PGCML. CHURCHES & RELIGION, FAMILIES

* Utley, George Burwell (b. 1876). Life & Times of Thomas John Clagett: First Bishop of Maryland & the First Bishop Consecrated in America. Donnelley: 1913, Call # BIOGRAPHY CLAGGETT U. Available at PGCML. CHURCHES & RELIGION, FAMILIES

* Walker, Samuel H. The Walkers of Toaping Castle, MD: 1883, Call # Biography Walker W, [The Walker family]. Available at PGCML, PGCGS. FAMILIES

* Weick, Fred & Hansen, James. From the Ground Up: The Autobiography of an Aeronautical Engineer. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Inst. Press, 1988, ISBN 0-87474-950-6. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. AVIATION, FAMILIES

* Weller, Bob. Prince George's Bounty; Oral History Portraits of People in our Nearby World as Collected by Journalism Students of Queen Anne School in Upper Marlboro, MD. Upper Marlboro, MD: Queen Anne School, 1984, Call # 975.251W. Available at PGCML. FAMILIES

* Wilson, Donald L. "The Bussey (Busey) Families of Maryland." PGCGS Bulletin, Vol. 10 #8 (April 1979), pp. 5-8; vol. 11 #9 (May 1980) pp. 97-100; Vol, 12 #2 (Oct. 1980), pp. 18-21; Vol. 12 #8 (April 1981) pp. 74-77. Available at PGCGS; PGCHS; MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch. FAMILIES

* Wilson, William E. "Maryland, Their Maryland." American Heritage Magazine, Vol. XVIII, No. 5, (Aug. 1967), pp. 8-17. [History of the Calvert's Charter for Maryland with beautiful color portraits of the six Lord Baltimores.]. Available at MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; PGCHS; MHSL. FAMILIES, GENERAL HISTORY

* Wood, Gregory A. The French Presence in Maryland 1524-1800. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1978. [238 pp., Extensive genealogical material drawn from many sources]. Available from PGCHS. FAMILIES, GENERAL HISTORY

* Yearbook of the American Clan Gregor Society 1909 Present. Washington, D.C.: [Magruder and allied families. Contains genealogical, cemetery and other info. and photos. Master index located in ACGS Library, Washington, Cathedral]. Available at PGCHS, MHSL. FAMILIES

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