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 lmore helpful if it included an index to the volumes, especially since many of the issues do not include a Table of Contents (except for the first issue of the year).  Because it …

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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 England relied heavily on biblical names for their children, and most often named the oldest children of either gender for the …

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