Index to Maryland Historical Magazine Articles
A large number of the early issues of the Maryland Historical Magazine are freely available online but the website would be much more helpful if it included an index to the volumes, especially since...
Monthly Archive: September 2024
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
The title says it all – lots of great info can be found in Penn State’s history magazine. Their archived editions are online and can be viewed easily.
Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network
The GeoHistory site makes available a large inventory of historic maps and property information of the Philadelphia region and the surrounding counties. What a treasure of a resource!
Chester County Land Records
This interactive viewer for Chester County land records make it easy to learn more about specific properties .
Explore New Castle Land Parcels
I just found out about this marvelous resource – Explore New Castle County. It’s an interactive land parcel map that allows you to find detailed information about property in New Castle county, Delaware. Since a...
Quaker Naming Patterns for Children
Of the four migrating groups from England discussed by David Hackett Fischer in his book, Albion’s Seed, the Quakers show the most distinctive pattern in the naming of their children. The Puritans in New...
Illegitimate Births, 1759-1834
New Castle County, Delaware, Court Records Docket containing records of illegitimate births 1759-1834 compiled by Rita Schive Mowrer, C.G.R.S. Child’s Mother Male Charged Birth Information Peggy Pierce, of Christiana Hd., single woman Robert Anderson...
First Settlers of the Manor of Maske
[Among the “reservations” set aside by the Penns was the “Manor of Maske”, embracing the territory now occupied by the borough of Gettysburg, township of Cumberland, and parts of several adjacent districts in Adams...
Physicians in Southern Lancaster County
Thomas Whiteside 1750 Little Britain David Ramsay 1770 Drumore Twp. Birthplace Henry Noll 1780 Bart John Cuthberton 1790 Bart George Hamilton 1807 Bart Vincent King 1807 Little Britain Robert Long 1820 Liberty Square Kiegy 1823 Bart...
1873 Witmer Atlas: East Coventry: Business Listings
East Coventry Township Baugh Jno., Farmer, Dairyman and Grazier, formerly Back Director at Pottstown, Seltzer’s Store P.O. Brower Ic U., Farmer and Teacher, Seltzer’s Store P.O. Brownback Jesse, Retired Farmer, Vincent P.O. Brownback Peter,...