Prince George's County: 
Special Sources:
Adams, Katharine Beall. Maryland Heritage: A Family History.
Hillsborough, NC: 1983, 421 pp., [Beall and allied families].
Available at FDML, PGCHS, PGCGS. FAMILIES
Baker, Elizabeth Hopkins. Mullikins of Maryland. State College, PA:
1932, [205 pp.]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES
Baltz, Shirley Vlasak. A Chronicle of Belair, Bowie. Bowie Heritage
Committee: 1984, [includes a history of the Belair estate and a
genealogy of the Ogle family]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS, PGCGS.
FAMILIES, TOWNS
Beall, Fielder M. Beall and Bell Families, Colonial Families
Descended From the Immigrants. Washington, D.C.: Charles H. Potter &
Co. Available at MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MHSL. FAMILIES
A Bibliography of Published Genealogical Source Records, Prince
George's County, MD. PGCGS: 1975, Revised 1986, Call # 929.3P.
[Research guides; gazetteers; cemetery, court, land, military,
probate, and vital records. A list of typescript and mimeographed
documents with their location is also given.] Available at PGCGS,
PGCML. FAMILIES, DEMOGRAPHICS
Borchers, Dennis Mott. Thomas Lamarr the Immigrant-300 Years of
Descendants. Omaha: 1977, LC # 77-82890. Available at the FDML,
PGCHS. FAMILIES
Bouchier, Jonathan. Reminisces of an American Loyalist, 1738-1789.
[Autobiography of Rev. Jonathan Boucher, Rector of Annapolis in
Maryland & Vicar of Epsom, Surrey, England], New York: Kennikat Press,
Inc., 1925, LC # 67-27577. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES
Bowie, Effie Gwynn. Across the Years in Prince George's County.
Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, 1947, Call # 929.1B. [904 pp.].
Repr. GPC: Baltimore, MD, 1975, [biographies & genealogies of the
county's oldest families, often tracing their land holdings].
Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES
Bowie, Walter Worthington. The Bowies and Their Kindred: A
Genealogical & Biographical History. Louisiana: Polyanthos, Inc.,
1971, LC # 74-172558. [Includes sections on Berry, Chew, Clagett,
Contee, Eversfield, Marbury, Waring]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS;
MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch. FAMILIES, TOWNS
Brashear, Henry S. The Brashear-Brashears Family, 1449-1929.
Privately printed: 1929, [326 pp.]. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES
Burch, Jane Augusta. The Last Path-Finding Pioneer (Edward Fitzgerald
Beale): 1973, [unpublished paper]. Available at FDML, PGCHS.
FAMILIES
Burch, Jane Augusta. T. Raymond Burch Family Genealogy. [Unpublished
paper], "From the Register of Maryland Heraldic Families from 1634-
1935," With Manorial Rights of the Landed Gentry: 1989. Available at
the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES
Buswell, David H. A Brief History of Montpelier. 1962, [unpublished
paper]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES, HOUSES, TOWNS
The Calvert Mansion, "Riversdale," 1801-1850. M-NCPPC: 1950, Call #
975.251M, [43 pp., History of the mansion and the Calvert families who
lived there]. Available at MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; PGCHS.
FAMILIES, HOUSES, SITES, TOWNS
Campbell, Helen Jones. The Case for Mrs. Surratt. New York: G.P.
Putnam Sons, 1943, 272 pp. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. [Landover
Hills] FAMILIES
Clark, Edythe Maxey. William Pumphrey of Prince George's County,
Maryland, and His Descendants. Anundsen Publishing Co.: 1992, [148
pp.]. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES
Clark, Edythe Maxey. William Webster of Prince George's County,
Maryland. Anundsen Publishing Co.: 1993, [172 pp.]. Available at
PGCGS. FAMILIES
Clark, Elizabeth Clagett. The Clagetts of Keokuk. 1986, Call #
929.2C, [Clagett family, Keokuk farm]. Available at PGCML. FAMILIES
Clemmer, R. Michael. Dr. Chatalain, Montpelier: 1978, [unpublished
paper]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES
Cook, William Grover (b. 1910). Montpelier & the Snowden Family.
Edited by Carol-Jean Webster, Laurel, MD: 1976, Call # CS71.S62, [356
pp., ill., coat of arms, index]. Available at PGCML, PGCGS. FAMILIES
Cross, Sandra Ann. Cook Family: 1986, [unpublished paper]. Available
at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES, TOWNS
Cross, Sandra. Margaret Cook, Preservationist. [An Address Delivered
to the Prince George's County Historical Society, 1990]. Available at
the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES
Darrow, George M. The Strawberry; History, Breeding & Physiology.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966, LC # 66-12155. Available
at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES
Dawson, Wayne E. History & Ancestry of Rev. John Foster, 1735-1800 --
His Life, His Family, His Ancestry: 1984, [unpublished paper].
Available at the FDML, PGCHS, PGCGS. FAMILIES
Donnelly, Sister Mary Louise. Craycrofts of Maryland and Kentucky
Kin. Privately printed: 1982, [386 pp.]. Available at FDML, PGCHS.
FAMILIES
"Early Settlers of Maryland 1634-1684," Maryland Genealogical Society
Bulletin. Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 6-8, [a brief description of the six
classes of Maryland colonists]. Available at MHSL, MGSL, MD Room,
PGCML, Hyattsville Branch. FAMILIES, GENERAL HISTORY
Earwaker, J.P. Christopher Lowndes of Bladensburg, "History of
Sandback." "Lowndes Family," Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. II,
No. 3, September 1907: 1979. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES,
TOWNS
Edmonston, Charles Ninian. My Own Edmonstons and a Few Others. San
Francisco, CA: privately printed, 1971. [372 pp.]. Available at
PGCGS, MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MHSL. FAMILIES, TOWNS
Elias, Robert H. and Finch, Eugene D. Letters of Thomas Attwood
Digges (1742-1821). Columbia, S.C.: Univ. of S. Carolina Press,
1982, ISBN 0-87249-412-8. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES
Everton, George B., Sr. The Handy Book For Genealogists. 7th ed.
Logan, UT: The Everton Publishers, 1981. [378 pp., general Maryland
info.] Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES
Excerpts From the Maryland Gazette, 1745-1785, Concerning Christopher
Lowndes of Bostwick, Bladensburg, MD. Available at the FDML, PGCHS.
FAMILIES, TOWNS
Fennell, Luther W. The Snowdens of Montpelier 1670-1831. Available
at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES, TOWNS
Geiger, Sister M. Virginia. Daniel Carroll II: One Man and His
Descendants 1730-1978. College of Notre Dame, MD: 1979, LC # 79-63162.
Available at the FDML, PGCHS, MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch;
PGCGS. FAMILIES
Gooden, Karen Lesla Williams. A Cross Borne: A Biography of Judge
James Franklyn Bourne, Jr. 1993. [First black judge in Prince
George's County]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. BLACK HISTORY,
FAMILIES
Green, Karen. The Maryland Gazette 1727-1807. Galveston: The
Frontier Press, 1989. [Genealogical and historical abstracts].
Available at the History Division, M-NCPPC. FAMILIES, NEWSPAPERS
Griffiths, George R. The Berrys of Maryland; an Old Prince George's
County Family. Adams Press: 1977, Call # 929.2G. Available at PGCGS,
PGSML. FAMILIES
Guide to Genealogical Records in the National Archives, Washington,
D.C. National Archives & Records Service: 1982, [304 pp.].
Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES
Hallowell, Benjamin. Benjamin Hollowell: An Autobiography.
Philadelphia: Friends' Book Assoc., 1883. [394 pp.] Available at the
FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES
Heads of Families From the First Census of the U.S. Taken in the Year
1790: Maryland. U.S. Bureau of Census, GPO: 1907, Call # 317.52U.
Available at PGCML, GPC Reprint 1977, PGCGS. DEMOGRAPHICS, FAMILIES
Hodges, Kenneth F. The Hodges Family of "Omaha Hill," Prince George's
County, Maryland: 1988, [unpublished paper]. Available at the FDML,
PGCHS. FAMILIES
Jacobus, Donald L. Index to Genealogical Periodicals. 3 V. (1932)
1969. [Covers period 1858-1952]. Available at MGSL, PGCGS. FAMILIES
Jensen, Mary Elizabeth and Queen, Henry Jerningham. The Ancestors and
Descendants of Charles Jerningham Queen, Prince George's County, MD,
and His Wife, Lillian Agnes Clark. Syracuse, NY: Typescript, author,
1985, [343 pp.], and supplement. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES
The John Carroll Papers, Vol 1-4, 1735-1815. Indiana: University of
Notre Dame Press, ISBN 0-268-01186-9. Available at the FDML, PGCHS.
CHURCHES, FAMILIES
Kellock, Katherine A. Colonial Piscataway in Maryland. Alice
Ferguson Foundation: 1962, Call # 975.251K, [Piscataway, 1600-1775,
Colonial Period; includes chart of early tracts laid out before April
23, 1696, and genealogy of some early Piscataway families.] Available
at PGCML, AFF, PGCGS. FAMILIES, INDIANS, TOWNS, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS
Kirkland, K.D. Colt, America's Premier Gunmakers. New York: Exeter
Books, 1988, ISBN 0-671-0969-X. Available at the FDML, PGCHS.
[Greenbelt] FAMILIES, TOWNS
Lanham, William Joseph. The Lanham Family's 17th Century Origins from
Maryland's Eastern Shore: 1984, [unpublished paper]. Available at
the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES, TOWNS
Lucas, Olive. Prince George's County, Maryland 1800 Census.
Baltimore, MD: Maryland Genealogical Society, 1969, [40 pp., heads of
families and breakdowns by age groups]. Available at the MHSL, PGCHS,
PGCGS, PGCML (Hyattsville Branch). DEMOGRAPHICS, FAMILIES
Major, Nettie Leitch. "Rozer, Young, Carroll, Brent: Colonial
Marylanders 'Lost' by the Formation of the District of Columbia."
Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin. Vol. 19 (Fall 1978), pp. 293-
302. Available at PGCGS; MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MHSL;
MSL. FAMILIES
Martin, Ralph G. Cissy: The Extraordinary Life of Eleanor Medill
Patterson, 1854-1989. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979, ISBN 0-671-
22557-X, [512 pp.] Available at FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES
Maryland Genealogies: A Consolidation of Articles From the Maryland
Historical Magazine. Baltimore, MD: GPC, 1980, 2 v., [549, 548 pp.].
Available at PGCGS; MHSL; MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MSL.
FAMILIES
Maryland: Heads of Families 1790 Census. U.S. Bureau of Census -
GPO, 1907, Reprinted Baltimore, MD: GPC, 1977, [189 pp.]. Available
at the PGCGS, PGCHS, MHSL. DEMOGRAPHICS, FAMILIES
Maryland's Historical & Cultural Museums Directory. Maryland
Historical & Cultural Publications, Crownsville, MD, June 1993, ISBN:
1-878399-52-7, pp. 19-23, Prince George's County Museums. [Airmen
Memorial Museum, Belair Mansion & Belair Stable Museum, Calvert
Mansion (Riversdale), Chesapeake Beach Railway Museum, College Park
Airport Museum, Darnall's Chance, Ft. Washington Park, Greenbelt
Museum, Howard B. Owens Science Ctr, Jefferson Patterson Park &
Museum, Laurel Historical Society, Marietta Mansion, Montpelier
Mansion (M-NCPPC), NASA/Goddard Visitor Center & Museum, National
Colonial Farm, Accokeek Foundation/Piscataway Park, Prince George's
County Hall of Fame, Surratt House Museum & Visitor Center, W.H.
Duvall Tool Museum, William Sydney Pitman Museum & African-American
Historical Society]. ARCHITECTURE, AVIATION, BLACK HISTORY, FAMILIES,
GENERAL HISTORY, HOUSES, MILITARY, MUSEUMS, SITES, TECHNOLOGY, TOWNS,
TRANSPORTATION
Meder, Gloria. Along the Potomac Shore in Prince George's County; a
Local History from Tanta-Cove Garden Club. Tanta-Cove Garden Club:
1983, Call # 975.251M. [Bibliography, incl. bldgs., 100 pp., ill., a
local history of Manors, families and churches]. Available at PGCGS.
FAMILIES, CHURCHES, GENERAL HISTORY
Melville, Annabelle M. John Carroll of Baltimore: Founder of the
American Catholic Hierarchy, 1735-1815. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1955, LC # 55-7195, [338 pp.]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS;
PGCGS. CHURCHES, FAMILIES
Meyer, Mary Keysor. Genealogical Research in Maryland - A Guide.
Baltimore, MD: MHS, Rev. 1983, [45 pp.] Available at MHSL.
FAMILIES
Neal, Colleen Stone. Lest We Forget - A Guide to Genealogical
Research in the Nation's Capital. Annandale, VA: Annandale Stake of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: 1982. [104 pp.,
Detailed info. on what, where, & how to find genealogical info. in
major D.C. research centers]. Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES
Newman, Harry Wright (1894). The Maryland Semmes & Kindred Families;
a Genealogical History of Marmaduke Summe(s), Gent., and His
Descendants, including the Allied Families of Greene, Simpson,
Boarman, Matthews, Thompson, Middleton & Neale. MHS: 1965, Call #
929.2N, [341 pp.]. Available at MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch,
MHSL, MSL. FAMILIES
Newman, Harry Wright. Maureen Duvall of Middle Plantation: 1952. [A
genealogical history of Maureen Duvall, Gent., of the Province of MD
and his descendants with Histories of the Allied families of Tyler,
Clarke, Poole, Hall & Merriken], Baltimore, MD, Port City Press.
Available at PGCGS; MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; MHSL; MSL.
FAMILIES
Newman, Harry Wright. The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate.
Washington, D.C.: the author, 1961. [359 pp., covers biographies and
early genealogy of the Adventurers on the "Ark" and the "Dove."],
Available at PGCHS, MHSL. FAMILIES
Newman, Harry Wright. To Maryland From Overseas. Baltimore, MD:
GPC, 1985. [190 pp., A complete digest of the Jacobite Loyalists sold
into white slavery in Maryland, and the British and Continental
background of approx. 1400 Maryland settlers from 1634 to the early
Federal period.] Available at MHSL, MSL, PGCGS. FAMILIES
Otis, James (1848-1912). Calvert of Maryland: A Story of Lord
Baltimore's Colony, 1606-1647. Riverdale, MD: PGCHS, 1991. (Reprint
of NY: American Book Co., 1910), Call # 0, [166 pp., ill.] Available
at PGCML. FAMILIES
Parran, Alice Norris. Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families.
Baltimore, MD: 1935, 1938, [Vol. 1, 408 pp.; Vol. II, 352 pp.].
Available at MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch; PGCGS; PGCHS; MSL.
FAMILIES
Passano, Eleanor P. An Index of Source Records of Maryland.
Baltimore, MD: 1940. [478 pp., lists all known 1940 references to
Maryland records of genealogical, biographical and historical
interest]. Available at PGCGS, MHSL, PGCHS, MSL. FAMILIES,
DEMOGRAPHICS
Pettengill, Samuel. My Story. Lebanon, N.H.: Whitman Press, Inc.,
1979. ISBN # 0-9602392-1-9, LC # 78-78208, [Includes history of
Clagett family]. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES
Phipps, George Mitchell. John Mitchell of Mitchellville: 1965.
[Unpublished paper] Available at the FDML, PGCHS; PGCGS. FAMILIES,
TOWNS
Prince George's County Genealogical Society Member Surname Index File:
1986. [Contains names of persons being researched by members of the
society with locale, time period, and a code designation which
identifies the researcher.] Available at PGCGS. FAMILIES
Ramsburgh, Edith Roberts. "Sir Dudley Digges, His English Ancestry &
the Digges Lines in America." DAR Magazine, Vol. LVII, No. 3, March
1923, p. 125. Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES
Richardson, Hester Dorsey. Side-Lights on Maryland History.
Baltimore, MD: Williams and Wilkins, 1913. Reprint Baltimore, MD:
Tidewater, 1967. [Vol. I, 500 pp., Vol. II, 564 pp., Includes Lords of
the Manor, Maryland Colonial Militia, names of 1,000 settlers of
Maryland and their earliest land surveys. Vol. II has much on early
families.] Available at MHSL; PGCHS; MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville
Branch; MSL. FAMILIES, GENERAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & MAPS, MILITARY.
Rogers, Ellen S. Genealogical Periodical Annual Index. 4 V., 1963-
1967. [Covers period 1962-1965.] Available at the MGS, PGCGS.
FAMILIES
Rowland, Ralph S., and Star W. Wilsons and Burchells and Related
Families 1608-1976. Fairfax, VA: the authors, 1976, [356 pp.,
Includes P.G. County connected families Wilson, Piles, Hilleary,
Sprigg, Mariate, Nuthall.] Available at MHSL. FAMILIES
Russell, George E. Genealogical Periodical Annual Index. 4 V., 1967-
1973. [Covers period 1966-1969.] Available at the MGSL, PGCGS.
FAMILIES
Ryon, Tina M. The Ancestors and Descendants of William Smith Ryon.
Anundsen Publishing Co.: 1989, [72 pp.]. Available at PGCGS.
FAMILIES
Sasscer, Frederick. Occasional Addresses: 1925. Available at the
FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES
Schaun, George and Virginia. Maryland: Biographical Sketches.
Lanham: Maryland Historical Press, 1984, ISBN 0-917882-15-6, [218
pp., Casebound, biographies of 60 prominent figures who helped shape
the state of Maryland; from Queen Henrietta Maria to Clara Barton to
Babe Ruth. Photographs and illustrations.] Available from publisher.
FAMILIES
Smith, Seymour Wemyss. John Hanson, Our First President. New York:
Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932, [160 pp.]. Available at the FDML,
PGCHS. FAMILIES
Society of the Pilgrims of St. Mary's, Maryland, Bicentennial
Celebration 1776-1976, also Archbishop John Carroll, 1735-1815.
Available at the FDML, PGCHS. FAMILIES, TOWNS
Sullivan, Larry E., and Cox, Richard. A Guide to the Research
Collections of the Maryland Historical Society. Baltimore, Maryland:
MHS, 1981, [354 pp.]. [Listing of historical and genealogical
manuscripts and oral history interviews.] Available at MHSL.
FAMILIES, GENERAL HISTORY
Towle, Laird C., et al. Genealogical Periodical Annual Index, Bowie,
Maryland. Heritage Books, Volumes 13-29, [Covers years 1974-1990].
Available at the MGSL, PGCGS. FAMILIES
Tyng, Charles Rockland. Record of the Life & Work of the Rev. Stephen
Higginson Tyng, D.D. (1800-1885), and History of St. George's Church,
NY to the Close of his Rectorship. Dutton: 1890, Call # BIOGRAPHY
TYNG T. Available at PGCML. CHURCHES & RELIGION, FAMILIES
Utley, George Burwell (b. 1876). Life & Times of Thomas John Clagett:
First Bishop of Maryland & the First Bishop Consecrated in America.
Donnelley: 1913, Call # BIOGRAPHY CLAGGETT U. Available at PGCML.
CHURCHES & RELIGION, FAMILIES
Walker, Samuel H. The Walkers of Toaping Castle, MD: 1883, Call #
Biography Walker W, [The Walker family]. Available at PGCML, PGCGS.
FAMILIES
Weick, Fred & Hansen, James. From the Ground Up: The Autobiography
of an Aeronautical Engineer. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Inst.
Press, 1988, ISBN 0-87474-950-6. Available at the FDML, PGCHS.
AVIATION, FAMILIES
Weller, Bob. Prince George's Bounty; Oral History Portraits of People
in our Nearby World as Collected by Journalism Students of Queen Anne
School in Upper Marlboro, MD. Upper Marlboro, MD: Queen Anne
School, 1984, Call # 975.251W. Available at PGCML. FAMILIES
Wilson, Donald L. "The Bussey (Busey) Families of Maryland." PGCGS
Bulletin, Vol. 10 #8 (April 1979), pp. 5-8; vol. 11 #9 (May 1980) pp.
97-100; Vol, 12 #2 (Oct. 1980), pp. 18-21; Vol. 12 #8 (April 1981) pp.
74-77. Available at PGCGS; PGCHS; MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville Branch.
FAMILIES
Wilson, William E. "Maryland, Their Maryland." American Heritage
Magazine, Vol. XVIII, No. 5, (Aug. 1967), pp. 8-17. [History of the
Calvert's Charter for Maryland with beautiful color portraits of the
six Lord Baltimores.]. Available at MD Room, PGCML, Hyattsville
Branch; PGCHS; MHSL. FAMILIES, GENERAL HISTORY
Wood, Gregory A. The French Presence in Maryland 1524-1800.
Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1978. [238 pp., Extensive genealogical
material drawn from many sources]. Available from PGCHS. FAMILIES,
GENERAL HISTORY
Yearbook of the American Clan Gregor Society 1909 Present.
Washington, D.C.: [Magruder and allied families. Contains
genealogical, cemetery and other info. and photos. Master index
located in ACGS Library, Washington, Cathedral]. Available at PGCHS,
MHSL. FAMILIES
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