Tobacco industry -- Maryland -- 18th century -- Archival resources.
Topic
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Robert Fergusson and Alexander Hamilton papers
Collection
0185-MDHC
Abstract
Robert Fergusson and Alexander Hamilton were buying agents for Scottish trading firms during the latter half of the eighteenth century. Both Fergusson and Hamilton were born in Scotland, but came to Maryland as young men and established themselves both as agents and as men of property. Fergusson owned Nanjemoy, an estate in Charles County, though he lived in Georgetown and later at "Mulberry Grove," also in Charles County, near Port Tobacco. Hamilton maintained a sizeable estate in Prince...
Dates:
1761-1827; Majority of material found within 1780-1800