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KENT COUNTY INVENTORY
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Land Records of Kent County, Maryland, by Irma S. Harper: Kent 1 Volume 1: First Kent 1648-1694 (including Index) Kent 1 Volume 2: Second Kent 1694-1706 (including Index) Kent 1 Volume 3: Third Kent 1707-1726 (including Index) Kent 2 Volume 4: Fourth Kent 1726-1737 (including Index) Kent 2 Volume 5: Fifth Kent 1738-1747 (including Index) Kent 2 Volume 6: Sixth Kent 1747-1754 (including Index) Kent 3 Volume 7: Seventh Kent 1754-1761 (including Index) Kent 3 Volume 8: Eighth Kent 1761-1765 (including Index)
Kent 4 Patents and Plats of the 1600’s, Kent County, Maryland, Volume One, (including Index), compiled by Irma S. Harper & Trish Surles
Kent 5-1 Kent County Census, 1800 (published Spring 1979 by Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin) Kent 5-2 1930 Census Index, Fifteenth Census of the United States, Kent County, Maryland, compiled by Trish Surles
Kent 6 Kent Rent Rolls: (including Index for each) 1) Land Office, Kent County, Maryland, 1658-1704, Volume #1: Fendall Creek, Norton Creek, Steelpoon Creek, and Sassafras River 2) Land Office, Kent County, Maryland, 1658-1704, Volume #2: Chester River, Langford’s Bay 3) Land Office, Kent County, Maryland, 1705-1732, Volume #3 4) Land Office, Kent County, Maryland, Additional Rent Rolls, 1736- 1790 All abstracted by Leslie & Neil Keddie
Kent 7 1783 Tax Roll for Kent County: Maryland State Archives, Maryland Indexes (Assessment of 1783, Index); 1783 Kent County, MSA S1437 (some sheets with Sixth Kent info)
Kent 8 Abstracts of Kent County, Maryland, Wills, Volume 1, 1777-1816
Kent 9 Abstracts of Kent County, Maryland, Wills, Volume 2, 1816-1867, by Christos Christou, Jr. & John Anthony Barnhouser
Kent 10 Index to Kent County, Maryland, Wills, 1642-1777, by Raymond B. Clark, Jr.
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Kent 11 Kent County, Maryland, Wills, Index by Name, Date and Reference Number, 1674-1860, by Patricia Joan Ozman Horsey
Kent 12 Maryland Wills: Howard Co. 1840-1950 & Kent Co. 1642-1960, edited by Joan Hume
Kent 13 Kent Marriages, 1796-1850: Section 1: Married in Maryland, Kent County, 1796-1850; Marriage Licenses recorded in Kent County, Maryland. Grooms, Brides, & Other Sources: Marriage abstracts included in local newspapers; List of Ministers in Kent County Marriage Licenses, 1796-1850; List of Geographical Areas Located within Kent County, Maryland, and outside Section 2: Marriage Abstracts 1850-1874, from the Kent News of Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, by Irma S. Harper; plus: Revised and Corrected Index for Marriage Abstracts from the Kent News of Chestertown, Maryland, 1850-1874 Compiled by Cynthia Schmidt and Irma Harper (Also in front cover of book is 4 pages of Kent Marriages: unsorted – from land record books)
Kent 14 Kent County Marriages & Obituaries from Newspapers, 1850-1881, with Contents by sections: 1) Marriage Announcements published in the Kent County News of Chestertown, Maryland, 1850-1874, by Irma S. Harper (plus Index) 2) Obituaries and Marriages from the Kent County, Maryland, Newspapers – The Transcript ~ Kent News, 1873-1875, by Trish Surles (including Index) 3) Obituaries and Marriages from the Kent County, Maryland, Newspapers - The Transcript ~ Kent News, 1876-1877, by Trish Surles (including Index) 4) Obituaries and Marriages from the Kent County, Maryland, Newspapers – The Transcript ~ Kent News, 1878-1879, by Trish Surles (including Index) 5) Obituaries and Marriages from the Kent County, Maryland, Newspapers – The Transcript ~ Kent News, 1880-1881, by Trish Surles (including Index)
Kent 14-1 Births & Deaths, Queen Anne’s, Kent & Caroline Counties, 1865-1884 (from County Circuit Court Records), by Trish Surles, 2002
Kent 15-1 Maryland Marriage Licenses, Kent County Marriage Licenses. Copied from the records at Chestertown, dating from 1796 to 1802, the earliest available. Names are spelled as in the records, by Albert Levin Richardson
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Kent 15-2 Kent County, Maryland, Marriage Licenses, 1796-1850, and Lists of Kent County Ministers, by Raymond B. Clark, Jr. and Sara Seth Clark, with an Introduction by Mrs. Frank Shramek
Kent 15-3 Marriages at Asbury Methodist Church, Millington, Maryland, May 26, 1875 to April 26, 1914 Kent 15-4 Married in Maryland, Licenses Recorded in Kent County, 1796-1850, compiled by Irma S. Harper and Cynthia V. Schmidt Kent 15-5 Marriage Announcements published in the Kent County News of Chestertown, Maryland, 1850-1874, by Irma S. Harper Kent 15-6 Journal of Rev. George Leary, Baptisms & Marriages, 1862-1882, Edesville, Kent Co., MD. Written by a young minister January 1878, transcribed by Joan Elburn Farley Kent 15-7 Genealogical Data Taken from Newspapers, Obituaries and Marriages, 1825-1827, Kent County, Maryland, compiled by Andrea L. Phillippe, with Index Kent 15-8 Genealogical Data Taken from Newspapers, Obituaries and Marriages, 1866-1869, Kent County, Maryland, compiled by Andrea L. Phillippe, with Index Kent 15-9 Genealogical Data Taken from Newspapers, Obituaries and Marriages, 1870-1872, Kent County, Maryland, compiled by Andrea L. Phillippe, with Index
Tombstoning in Kent County, Maryland, by USGS: Kent 16-1 Volume 1 (including Index) Kent 16-2 Volume 2 (including Index) Kent 16-3 Volume 3 (including Index) Kent 16-4 Volume 4 (including Index) Kent 16-5 Volume 5 (including Index)
Kent 17 THE BOYER-CACY FAMILY CEMETERY at “THE JONES FAMILY (moved to FARM” in Kent County, MD, compiled by USGS for the 30th Year F.H. 15) Celebration
Kent 18 Chester Cemetery Interment Records, Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, July 1912 – April 1950. (Records transcribed by Jane Garratt Whomsley)
Kent 19 Historic Graves, Private Burial Grounds and Cemeteries of Kent County, Maryland – Gone but not forgotten
Kent 20 Gravestones, Wall Plaques, Burials, Christ I.U. 1986: A Listing of the Gravestones Existing in the Christ Church I.U. Cemetery as of July, 1986.
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Presented to Christ IU by Robert Sparre and Mr. Francis Lamb on 9/14/1986 at Old Friends’ Day. Prepared by Mr. Francis Lamb
Kent 21 Historic Graves, Private Burial Grounds and Cemeteries of Kent County, Maryland, by Historical Society of Kent County
Kent 22 A History of Shrewsbury Parish Church, by Katherine Myrick DeProspo
Kent 23 A Tricentennial History of St. Paul’s Church, Kent, Chestertown, Maryland. Edited by Davy H. McCall
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Kent 24 Miscellaneous Articles from various sources, including “The Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin” for Kent County, MD: 1) A View of Chestertown from White House Farm: New Insights from Old Kent, by Robert J.H. Janson-LaPalme 2) Excerpts From Kent County Court Records, 1731-1735, by F. Edward Wright 3) Index to Convict Servants in Kent County, 1719-1769, by Robert Andrew Oszakiewski 4) Kent County 1800 Census 5) Kent County Criminal Records, 1723-1734 6) New Light on Kent County Families, by Robert Barnes 7) Records of Old Kent Chapter, by DAR 8) The Ricaud (Richaux-Ricand) Family, by Robert Barnes 9) William Holland Wilmer: A Newly Discovered Memoir, by David L. Holmes 10) Cicero in Chestertown: The Oratio Salutatoria at Washington College’s First Commencement, May 14, 1783, by Benjamin G. Kohl
Kent 25 Trumpington – A Legacy of Land on the Chesapeake Bay: Three Centuries of Family and Farming in Kent County, Maryland, by Jenifer Grindle Dolde
Kent 26 Historic Houses of Kent County, an Architectural History: 1642-1860; Michael Owen Bourne, Author; Eugene Hall Johnstone, Editor; published by The Historical Society of Kent County, Inc., Chestertown, Maryland 21620
Kent 27 Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland, by George A. Hanson (Notes illustrative of the most ancient records of Kent County, Maryland, and of the Parishes of St. Paul’s, Shrewsbury and IU and genealogical histories of
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old and distinguished families of Maryland, and their connections by marriage, etc. (1967)
Kent 28 Kent County, Maryland and Vicinity: List of Militia and Oaths of Allegiance, June 1775; compiled by Mrs. William G. Buckey; Indexed by Old Kent and London Bridge Chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution
Kent 29 Commissioned Slave Statistics, Kent County, Maryland, 1864; Includes Civil War Enlistments, by Trish Surles
Kent 30-1 Information about Kent County on Kent County Chamber of Commerce, Inc. letterhead Kent 30-2 Booklet: Daughters – War of 1812 – Meeting Friday, August 9th 2002 at Shrewsbury Church Cemetery. Includes photographs of tombstones and who buried there, and other information Kent 30-3 A Guide of Maryland State Archives Holdings of Kent County Records on Microform, 1989 Kent 30-4 Worton Gleanings – A History of Union M.E. Church and Development of the Area, Worton, Maryland, by Carolyn E. Cooper Kent 30-5 a) Booklet: Washington College, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, published by the College, Chestertown, Maryland b) Reid Hall c) Washington College Bulletin XI d) Washington College Bulletin XII e) Washington College Bulletin XIV f) Being Dead Kent 30-6 Kent County Guide, by Kent County Bicentennial Committee, Chestertown, Maryland, 1977 Kent 30-7 Kent County Guide, Third Edition, by Kent County Bicentennial Committee, Chestertown, Maryland, 1983 Kent 30-8 Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland; Notes illustrative of The Most Ancient Records of Kent County, Maryland, and of the Parishes of St. Paul’s Shrewsbury and I.U. and Genealogical Histories of Old and Distinguished Families of Maryland, and their Connections by Marriage, etc., with an Introduction by George A. Hanson, M.A. Kent 30-9 Discover, Kent County, Maryland, Spring/Summer 2001 Magazine, published by the Kent County News, Chestertown, MD Kent 30-10 Discover, Kent County, Maryland, Spring/Summer 2008 Magazine, published by the Kent County News, Chestertown, MD Kent 30-11 Chestertown 2006 Calendar of historic moments – celebrating 300 years – 1706 – 2006
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