Miscellaneous Documents, 1713-1971 and undated

This series contains documents and written or printed matter that could not be associated with a family member. These include certificates of indentured servitude and other legal documents, genealogical research notes and other data, land records, newspaper clippings, published monographs, and a series of handwritten poems and other writings.

There are two certificates of indentured servitude.

Two folders of genealogical information are included within this series. The material includes general genealogical information on the Weems family and its various branches and genealogies of other prominent or related families in Anne Arundel County and Maryland.

Land records consist of several descriptions of land grants copied from books at the Maryland Hall of Records and an original land grant from Queen Anne dating to 1713. An undated map of Jamaica has been placed in this portion of the collection as well

This series also contains newspaper clippings related to the family. This material dates from 1773 to 1971, with the majority post-1900. Two newspaper issues are included under this heading: an undated nineteenth century facsimile of the August 20, 1773, issue of The Maryland and Baltimore Journal/The Advertiser and a copy of the October 15, 1836 issue of The Monument. An anomalous legal document placed in Series III is the will of John Mackall, a prominent figure in Calvert County in the nineteenth century. A single piece of correspondence between Mackall and Dr. Thomas Reynolds is included in Series I.

This series also contains two monographs, George Arents's Early Literature on Tobacco (New York: n. p., 1938) and Ford K. Brown's The Annapolitan Library at St. John's College (Annapolis: n. p. 1931 ?). Fully cataloged copies of these works may be located in the collection of the Marylandia and Rare Books Department of Hornbake Library (Arents: RARE SPCSTK SB273.A7; Brown: MD STACKS Z733.A6B7).

The final folder in the collection contains a series of poems and other writings not associated with any family member. Several of these items appear to have been copied from published sources.

Series III is arranged alphabetically by document type. Documents are arranged chronologically within folders where possible. The certificates of indentured servitude and two newspapers have been placed in oversize flat storage due to their size and condition.