Anne Arundel Genealogical Society: Readings

A Semiannual Publication of the
Anne Arundel Genealogical Society
Anne Arundel County, Maryland


As a member of the AAGS you are entitled to a semiannual, 50-page plus magazine the Readings, which provides members with genealogical source material about Anne Arundel County families. Back issues of the Readings can be purchased: Back Issues (July 1998 through July 2010 $5.00 (nonmember price), $4.50 (member price) Current Issues (January 2010 through present) $7.00 (nonmember price), $6.30 (member price) plus postage. Maryland residents add 6% sales tax. (Order form)
January 2012 Volume 15, No. 1	Baldwin Family Bible The Colonial Dames of America form of application-Katherine Macsherry Brogden Baltimore Sun Newspaper-Mrs. Susan Jacob/John Chew Robert Lusby of AA Co., MD and his children-Donna Valley Russell A.A. Co. wills-1785-Robert Barnes Baltimore Sun newspaper-Dr. John H. Sellman Descendants of Gov. Daniel Martin of MD-Walter E. Arps, Jr. Wood/Carr Family Bible A.A. Co. Court, June 1722-Doug Hayman Duvall/Whittington/Wilson family Bible The Colonial Dames of America form of application-Anne G. Herbert Boone A.A. Co. Land Commissions 1781-1787-Mary Frazer The Draft in Maryland Baltimore Sun newspaper-Dr. James E. Williams, Sr. Tank Tracks on Venerable Soil-Myrtle D. Helfrich West River Circuit, M.E. Church Baptisms-Audrey M. Bagby & Leona Espegren
July 2011 Vol. 14 No. 2	Beal/Collier/Countiss/Everitt/Jenkins Family Bible The Draft in Maryland-List of Names Drawn in A.A. Co. Baltimore Sun Newspaper-St. John College The Colonial Dames of America Form of Application-Anna Gilmor Stewart Robert Lusby of A.A. Co. and His Children-Donna Valley Russell Baltimore Sun Newspaper-Drowning of Midshipman and Fire at Lomax House A.A. Co. Wills, 1784-1785, by Robert Barnes Baltimore Sun Newspaper-Old Man Richard Crandell Dunlap/Easter/McKinley/Jacobs Family Bible Baltimore Sun Newspaper-Leonard Mallonee A.A. Co. Land Commissions, 1780, by Mary Frazer Stinchcomb/Pumphrey/Brice Family Bible The Colonial Dames of America Form of Application-Sophia Norris Pitts LeGendre Fowler/Birkhead/Terry Family Bible Calvert Family Bible West River Circuit, M.E. Church Baptisms, by Audrey M. Bagby and Leona E. Espegren
January 2011 Vol. 14 No. 1	Transcript of the Weems Family Bible Ancestry of Mason Locke Weems Williams, Society of Colonial Wars-1905 The Hinton Orphans of A.A. Co., by Jo Ellen Trefny Pacheco Jenkins/Meek Family Bible A.A. Co. Wills-1784, by Robert Barnes Lee/Elliott/Cole/Thomas Family Bible Conway Family Bible A.A. Co. Land Commissions, 1775-1780, by Mary Frazer Announcement-Mr. & Mrs. B.S. Benson The Colonial Dames of America Form of Application, by Charlotte Morris Gill Hazlehurst Bible of Mary Jane Whitington Armiger A.A. Co. Court, June 1722 and Election of Delegates, by Doug Hayman Stinchcomb Family Bible The Tax Man Cometh-1828 Early Cromwell Graves Wood/Dowell/Hammar Family Bible West River Circuit M.E. Church Baptisms, by Audrey M. Bagby & Leona E. Espegren
July 2010 Volume 13 No. 2	Boone Family of Anne Arundel County Boone and Linstead Family Bibles Boone Family Bible Linstead/Linstid Family Bible Boone Letter The Davidge Family of Anne Arundel Co.-Donna Valley Russell Anne Arundel County Land Commissions 1772-1775-Mary Frazer Collinson/Beard/Carr Family Bible Record Anne Arundel County Wills, 1783-Robert Barnes Ancestors of Elizabeth Wilson Jackson The Yate Plummer Bible Bible of William Ward Anne Arundel County Court, March 1721-1722-Doug Hayman Hodges Family Bible Edward Brown/Camden Family Bible The Richard and Sarah White Affair West River Circuit Record of Baptisms-Audrey M. Bagby and Leona E. Espegren Corrections to Anne Arundel Readings, Vol. 13, No. 1
January 2010 Volume 13 No. 1	Chew Family Bible Descendants of [Col. Samuel] Chew and Ann Ayres Surviving Page of a Chew Letter In Chew Family 100 Years-West River Post Office Anne Arundel Co. Land Commissions 1769-1772-Mary Frazier Correction to Anne Arundel Readings, Vol. 12, No. 2 The Colonial Dames of America Form of Application-Mary Stevenson Brogden Anne Arundel Co. Wills 1782-1783-Robert Barnes Redmiles/Lowman Family Bible Chard/Calvert Family Bible Anne Arundel Co. Court, March 1721/1722-Doug Hayman Brashears Family Bible Marriage Certificate of Philip Thomas and Anne Chew Wedding Invitation-Cromwell and Anderson Warfield/Turner/Maynard/Howell Family Bible Woodwardville, Anne Arundel Co., MD-Myrtle D. Helfrich West River Circuit Record of Baptisms-Audrey M. Bagby & Leona E. Espegren
July 2009 Volume 12 No. 2	Gatward Family Bible Donaldson Family of Anne Arundel Co. Jacob/Davis Family Bible Anne Arundel Co. Wills, 1782-1783 Fairbank Family Bible Exerpts from Mamie Hancock's Diary Gray/Arnold Wedding Invitation Anne Arundel Co. Court Judgment Record, Nov. 1721 Misfiled Anne Arundel Co. Marriage Record Pedigree of Hon. George Matthews Sharp, Society of Colonial Wars-1905 Duvall/Merriken Family Bible Turner Family Bible West River Circuit Record of Marriages
January 2009 Volume 12, No. 1	Slemaker Family Record-1827 Sunderland/Armiger Genealogy Heirs of Elizabeth and Susan Shepherd Early Wright Graves Anne Arundel County Wills 1782 Lawsuits in Anne Arundel County Court, Nov. 1721 Colored Members of The West River Circuit Grimes Family Bible The Colonial Dames of America form Wayson Family Record Anne Arundel Estate Distributions 1874-1887 Johnson Family Bible Wedding Invitation (Biden/Linthicum) West River Circuit Record of Marriages (1858-1931)
July 2008 Volume 11 No. 2	Hammond Family records Head of Severn- a Fulling Mill The Colonial Dames of America, application for membership form Hammond Manor House Un-probated Wills of Anne Arundel Co., 1898-1916 Cole Family Bible Colored Members so the West River Circuit Corrections to Vol. 11, No. 1 Kelly/Smith Family Record Anne Arundel County Wills, 1781-1782 Lawsuits in Anne Arundel County Court, Nov. 1721 Anne Arundel County Court, Judgement record West River Circuit Record of Marriages Anne Arundel Estate Distribution, 1865-1874
January 2008 Volume 11 No. 1	Colored Members of the West River Circuit Parrish/Woodfield/Hallock Family Bible Orphan's Cases in Anne Arundel County Court, MD, 1719-1720 and 1720-1721 Farm Owners in the First District of Anne Arundel Co. The Stewart Family Group Sheet Smith and Cromwell Family of Anne Arundel County Mewshaw/Phelps Family Bible Rowles/Knauff/Gordon/Bennett Family Bibles Rent of Deale Land Once Cost Gott 12 Shillings Annually O'Hara Tombstone (son of AA Co. residents found in Kent Co.) West River Circuit record of Marriages, 1858-1931 Anne Arundel Estate Distribution 1855-1865
July 2007 Volume 10 No. 2	Methodist Episcopal Churches, West River Circuit West River Circuit Record of Marriages Benson Family Record Delinquent Tax List Stone Family Bible Colonial Dames of America Form of Application for Membership Donaldson/Suehle/Greenwell Family Bible Anne Arundel County Wills, 1780-1781 Anne Arundel Estate Distribution, 1847-1855 Grobaker/Linthicum Wedding Invitation Index
January 2007 Volume 10 No. 1	Record of the South River Club 1742-1926 Inn or Ordinary License Applications-1758 Anne Arundel County Wills 1777-1779 Corrections to Anne Arundel Readings, Vol. 9 No. 2 Manifold/Dowell/Nutwell/Crandall Family Bibles Redgrave/Kelly Wedding Invitation Anne Arundel Co. Estate Distribution 1838-1847 Franklin/Batson/Myers Family Bible More Burnt Property to be Paid for by Military Order Colonial Dames of America application form Drury/Owens/Pindell Family Chart Gilsan/Sellman/Chaney Family Bible Ward/Phelps Wedding Invitation St. Anne�s Parish Baptism Records 1874-1883
July 2006 Volume 9 No. 2	Anne Arundel Co. Wills, 1777-1779, by Bob Barnes Richard Linthicum family Bible Shipley family Bible Wilson/Carr family Bible Anne Arundel County Estate Distribution, 1838-1842, by Mary Frazer Anne Arundel County Almshouse Minute Book, 1820-1871, by Raymond Ringgold St. Anne�s Parish Baptism Records, The Missing Years, by Mary Frazer Historical Spelling-Greenberry/Greenbury The Colonial Dames of America form for Membership Application Edgewood, Anne Arundel County, Maryland Anderson ancestry of William Anderson- of Grassland Anne Arundel County Court, Judgment Record William F. Cummings family Bible St. Anne�s Parish baptism records
January 2006 Volume 9, No. 1	Did Elizabeth Parsons Marry John Norris? List of Licenses for Retailers at Horse Races, 1785 Hutchins Family Bible Bastardy Cases in Anne Arundel County Shipley/Tubbs Wedding Invitation Ring/Caples/Jenkins Family Bible Harmon Family Bible Orphans Cases in Anne Arundel County Court, Maryland The Colonial Dames of America Form of Application for Membership Anne Arundel County, Judgment Record-Hundreds Magruder and Ray Family Bibles Welsh/Wellham Wedding Invitation St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records
July 2005 Volume 8, No. 2	Rising Sun Inn-Home of the Baldwin Family Society of Colonial Wars-Application of James Etchberger Hancock The Colonial Dames of America Form of Application for Membership Correction, Welch-Hamilton Wedding Invitation Anne Arundel County Register and Wills Estate Docket Anne Arundel County Court, Judgment Record Identifying Susanna Jones Rawlings Hawkins/Griffith/Durner Family Bible Orphans Cases in Anne Arundel County Court Mary Davis's Bible Record St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records
January 2005 Volume 8, No. 1	Warfield Family Bible The Colonial Dames of America form of application for membership Anne Arundel County Court, Judgment Record Anne Arundel County Register of Wills Estate Docket 1890-1903 Charles Carroll of Carrollton-Found in Cooperstown, NY Orphans Cases in Anne Arundel County Court, MD Record of Hood and Owings Families Year of Light- "A.L." (after date on tombstone) Benson/Carter/Cromwell Family Bible Ward/Phelps wedding invitation St. Anne's parish baptism records
July 2004 Volume 7, No. 2	Harwood Family Bible Sellman-Hall Family Bible Welch-Hamilton Wedding Invitation Anne Arundel County Register of Will Docket 1890-1903 Annapolitan Buried in Ohio Record of Official Members of the Severn Circuit M.E. Church 1881-1900 William Jackson Family Bible Orphans Cases in Anne Arundel County Court, Maryland Two Bibles of the Winterson Family St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records
January 2004 Volume 7, No. 1	Touring Harwood Family History Land Records Orphans Cases in Anne Arundel County, Maryland Civil War Records Corrections Davidson Family Bible Severn Circuit M.E. Church, Record of Baptism The Gladden Family Bible St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records
July 2003 Volume 6, No. 2	Orphans Cases in Anne Arundel County, Maryland - continued Hawkins Family Record Hancock Family Notes Genealogy of the Hermann/Harman Family of W�rtteberg, Germany, and Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Part V Warfield Family Bible Anne Arundel County's Oldest Tombstone The Missing Grave of Major General John Hammond, Esq. Severn Circuit M.E. Church Record of Baptisms Higgins/Duvall Family Bible St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records - continued
January 2003 Volume 6, No. 1	Orphans in Anne Arundel County, Maryland 1705 - 1706 Eleanor Howard, Wife of John Dodson Blunt/Dorsey/Woodward/Maccubbin Family Bible Severn Circuit M.E. Marriage Records 1882 - 1906 Smith/Mewshaw Family Bible Genealogy of the Hermann/Harman Family of W�rtteberg, Germany, and Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Part IV Wedding Invitation of the Shipley Family St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records - continued
July 2002 Volume 5, No. 2	Churches of the Severn Methodist Episcopal Circuit Severn Circuit Methodist Episcopal Records 1881-1904 Genealogy of the Hermann/Harman Family of W�rtteberg, Germany, and Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Part III Baldwin Family Bible Pumphrey Family Bible Anne Arundel Countians Buried in Old St. Paul's Cemetery in Baltimore City Civil War Records-continued Hodges Family Bible St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records - continued
January 2002 Volume 5, No. 1	Two Harman Family Marriages- Photographs from the files of William Gray Harman Henry Sewell and Some of His Descendants Death Records of Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Merriken/Wells/Duvall Family Bible Genealogy of the Hermann/Harman Family of W�rtteberg, Germany, and Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Part II Dunbar and Cook Family Bibles Civil War Records-continued St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records - continued
July 2001 Volume 4, No. 2 (Xerox copy only)	William Gray Harman A photograph and short biography Genealogy of the Hermann/Harman Family of Württeberg, Germany, and Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Part I Birth Records of Anne Arundel County Circuit Court The Wells-Wood Alliance Bible Record of Another Wood Family of Anne Arundel County, Maryland Servants and Convicts in Anne Arundel County and What Happened to Them -continued Civil War Records-continued St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records -continued
January 2001 Volume 4, No. 1	Sparrow versus Gassaway Servants and Convicts in Anne Arundel County and What Happened To Them -continued Anderson Family Bible Franklin Account Book - Part II The Slaves and Servants of Oakland - Memoir Dr. Robert Franklin Family Cemetery Cromwell Family Bible Smith Family Bible Family Record of Mazie Smith Stoll Civil War Records - continued St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records
July 2000 Volume 3, No. 2	1878 Hopkins Map Servants and Convicts in Anne Arundel County and What Happened To Them - continued Rawling Family Bible Colonial Dames of America - Application Form of Ann Franklin Keyser Record from Abstracts of Land Records, Volume V From the Account Book of Robert Franklin of Anne Arundel County - Part I The Family of Edward and Sally Carter Records of Queen Anne's parish Records, 1682-1778 Beyond the Stone: The Soper Gravestone Civil War Records - continued St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records - continued
January 2000 Volume 3, No. 1	Servants and Convicts in Anne Arundel Co. and What Happened to them -- Another special submission by the noted author, Robert Barnes. The Young Peoples Mite Society of Emmanuel M.E. Church South -- Illustrating the value of the miscellaneous church record, transcribed by Ray Ringgold. Reminiscences -- A remembrance of 19th century life centering around the Magothy Meeting House and the district school, by an unknown author. Fieldstones as Gravemarkers: The Durner Family Cemetery -- Raymond Ringgold explains how fieldstones in a cemetery can reveal unexpected genealogical clues. Parker One-Room School Colts' Ball Civil War Records - continued Proctor Family Bible Fieldstones As Grave Markers, The Durner Family Cemetery Higgins/Hammond Family Bible Records of the Anne Arundel Circuit Methodist Protestant Church - continued Family Bible of James Benedick Stockett St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records - continued
July 1999 Volume 2, No. 2	Map of the Hundreds of Anne Arundel County 1783 -- Drawn by AAGS member George Horvath The Ogle Bible -- One of the old families of Anne Arundel County. Aspecial annotated submission by noted author, Robert Barnes. Civil War Records -- List of persons subject to military duty in Anne Arundel County, 1863 Anne Arundel Schools and Teachers -- A list of Anne Arundel County public school teachers in 1874. The Early Robossom/Robinson Family of Anne Arundel Co. -- Taken from the papers and charts of Ray Robosson and Laura Tydings Garcelon. Simmons Family Bible Anne Arundel Circuit Methodist Protestant Church, Marriages - continued Norman Family Bible Robinson Family Land Records Ahnentafel of Margaret Beulah Clark - continued Munroe Family Bible St. Anne's Parish Baptism Records - continued
January 1999 Volume 2, No. 1	Claytor's Store, Queen Anne, Ledger for 1818 -- Newly found ledgers lists names of people from both Prince George's and Anne Arundel Counties. Patapsco Hundred for the year 1783 -- Assessment of 1783 associates the names of persons with the names of tracts that they owned. The Kess Family of Anne Arundel County -- A genealogy of an African American Family. Ahnentafel of Margaret Beulah Clark -- Listing the names of many old Anne Arundel County families. List of Letters -- Letters remaining in the Post Office- Annapolis, 1815. Civil War Exemption Records - continued Anderson Family Bible Anne Arundel Circuit Methodist Protestant Church Robert E. L. Hopkins Family Bible St. Anne's Parish Marriage Records
July 1998 Volume 1, No. 2	Letters and Corrections St. Anne's Parish Burial Register -- Rickey Joyce Family Bible Civil War Exemption Records -- Bagby/Espegren Avery Family Bible Land Commissions -- Hayman All Hallows Marriages -- Reprint Births, Deaths, Divorces and Marriages From the Evening Capital Newspaper - Peake Hancock Family Bible Anne Arundel Circuit Methodist Protestant Church, Baptisms -- Bagby/Ringgold Anne Arundel Timelines -- Ringgold
January 1998 Volume 1, No. 1 (Xerox copy only)	Anne Arundel Convict Record 1771-1775 Civil War Exemption Records Land Commissions of Anne Arundel County 1716-1718 Robert Boone of Anne Arundel County, Maryland and His Descendants White/Cochran Family Bibles Anne Arundel Circuit Methodist Protestant Church 1830-1894 Leitch Family Bible W.G. Owings Family Bible Matthew/Holland Family Bible Robert F. Nowell Family Bible Atwell Family Bible Births, Deaths, Divorces and Marriages From the Evening Capital Newspaper

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