Series Information
MARYLAND STATE PAPERS
(Series A)
1715-1847
S1004
Series Description
Executive papers. Consists primarily of orders, resolutions,
correspondence, minutes, proceedings, accounts, proclamations,
pardons, payments, applications, and recommendations.
Correspondents include governors, council members, secretaries of
state, Council of Safety, Commissioners to Preserve Confiscated
British Property, Intendant of the Revenue, Auditor General, and
Commissioner of Army Accounts among others. Documents arranged in
rough chronological order; sometimes by type of document. For
1775-1789 indexed by MARYLAND INDEXES Maryland State Papers,
Index series [MSA S1484]. Many documents for 1775-1789 calendared
in: An Inventory of Maryland State Papers, Annapolis: Hall of
Records Commission, 1977. Also available on microfilm for
1781-1794, [MSA SM174], 1 reel.