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The extant Debt Books for the Western Shore counties are essentially annual, dating from 1753 to 1774. (The Debt Books for 1750 for five Western Shore counties, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Charles, Prince George's, and Frederick, are found in the Calvert Papers, located at the Maryland State Archives.) The extant Debt Books for the Eastern Shore counties are also essentially annual, dating from 1733 to 1775.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe great value of the Provincial Land Office Debt Books is that they enable the genealogist to track land ownership over various years in cases of intestate estates, land inherited by women, and land that is not specified in a will. They are now the basis of a series of record abstracts from Vernon L. Skinner, compiler of the 42-volume series covering the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume is the second of three covering St. Mary's County, an original county formed in 1637. Since St. Mary's is also a \"burned county\" (i.e., the courthouse burned and no probate or land records exist prior to 1777), its Debt Books take on added importance. The information in this series is presented in a tabular form as follows: liber and folio citation, with any pertinent date; name of the person paying the taxes; name of the tract of land and amount of acreage. Each volume in the series is indexed by the name of the land owner and his\/her track, and, on average, each volume identifies about 9,000 parcels of land.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVernon L. 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In 1785, for example, the first of many Catholic families from St. Mary's crossed the mountains to find land in Kentucky, while a few years later, driven by economic necessity, others migrated to Georgia, Missouri, Louisiana, and Texas. So great was the number of St. Mary's Catholics who moved to Kentucky, in fact, that a diocese was created for them in 1808.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese early families left a mighty progeny, and those of us today who seek ancestral connections will welcome the appearance of this book, for here are collected many of the earliest surviving records of the Catholic families of St. Mary's County, Maryland. The most significant portion of the work contains the marriages and baptisms from the Jesuit parishes of St. Francis Xavier and St. Inigoes, which, in the case of baptisms (1767-1794), give the names of children, parents, and godparents, and the date of baptism; and in the case of marriages (1767-1784), the names of the married partners and the date of marriage. Other records include congregation lists (1768-1769), rent rolls (various dates), births (various dates), subscribers to the Oath of Allegiance (1778), militia lists (1794), and voters' lists (1789-1790). Taken together, these records comprise an indispensable reference source and represent the most complete collection of such materials in print.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy J. 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The central file of colonial wills was calendared, and an all-name index to them was prepared by James Magruder (and ultimately published by Genealogical Publishing Co.). The county sets of colonial wills have also been indexed by the local Register of Wills offices, and in a number of cases those indexes refer to people not found in Magruder's index because some papers were lost during the transfer of the wills. Of even greater importance, none of the wills for the post-colonial period in Maryland have been worked on at all, with the exception of those for St. Mary's County, which were printed in alphabetical order in the periodical \u003cem\u003eChronicles of St. Mary's\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis work rectifies these shortcomings for the Maryland counties of St. Mary's and Somerset by providing a complete index to the wills recorded in those counties. The index to St. Mary's County wills, which is based on the one which appeared in the \u003cem\u003eChronicles of St. Mary's\u003c\/em\u003e between 1961 and 1968, is arranged alphabetically by the name of the testator and gives the date and source of the original will. The Somerset index is arranged chronologically and thereunder alphabetically. Thus, all testators whose surnames begin with A and who died between 1664 and 1667 are grouped together, followed by those whose surnames begin with A and died between 1667 and 1750, and so on. Altogether, about 5,000 wills for St. Mary's County and 7,500 wills for Somerset County, many of them dated prior to 1800, are indexed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Hume\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1970), 2003, paper, 277 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806346663\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9149\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41774319075446,"sku":"102-9149","price":38.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9149-1500px.png?v=1777310671"},{"product_id":"101-c0509","title":"Maryland Source Records, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eIncludes an index to the 1810 Montgomery County, Maryland census, some marriages of Calvert County, Maryland, some marriages of Washington County, Maryland, Maryland Born Men in the Virginia Militia, All Saint's Parish Records, Frederick Maryland, Pauupers in the 1783 Tax List of Baltimore County Maryland, and St. Mary's County, Maryland Oaths of Fidelity, 1778.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBettie Carothers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1975), 1987, 8.5\" x 11\", paper, 76 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781585495092\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-C0509\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41853397237878,"sku":"101-C0509","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-c0509-1500px.png?v=1776976254"}],"url":"https:\/\/heritagebooks.com\/collections\/maryland-st-marys-county\/census-records+military.oembed","provider":"Heritage Books, Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}