Cecil County (Md.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Archival resources
Topic
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Thomas Family papers
Collection
0145-MDHC
Abstract
The Thomas Family papers include eleven letters and six documents from three generations of the Philip Thomas family of Cecil County, Maryland. All but one of the letters were received by Philip Thomas, Jr.; the additional documents consist of a bond, a bill of sale, a land indenture, two wills, and a military certificate. There are records that indicate the Thomas family enslaved up to 45 people. Major topics include family concerns, the Napoleonic wars, social life in the early nineteenth...
Dates:
1793-1816; Majority of material found within 1804-1810