Executive records. Consists of Provincial Court proceedings, correspondence between Lower and Upper houses of the General Assembly, lists of taxables from various hundreds (1733), petitions, trials of slaves, and documents relating to loyalists. Correspondents include governors, members of the General Assembly, Convention of Maryland, Council of Safety, John Adams, John Jay, and a foreign minister from Denmark (1784). Arranged numerically by inventory number. For 1775-1789 indexed by MARYLAND INDEXES Maryland State Papers, Index series [MSA S1484]. Some documents abstracted in Calendar of Maryland State Papers, Number 1, The Black Books, Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1943. Some documents for 1775-1789 listed in An Inventory of Maryland State Papers, Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1977. Some correspondence and proceedings transcribed in: Archives of Maryland, various volumes. Also available on microfilm for 1636-1785, [MSA SM3], 4 reels. Naturalization records indexed in MARYLAND INDEXES (Naturalizations, Provincial, Index) 1634-1776 [MSA S1414].