The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "Changing Life Styles in Colonial St. Mary's County." Working Papers from the Regional Economic History Research Center 1 (no. 3, 1978): 73-118.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "Inventories and the Analysis of Wealth and Consumption Patterns in St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1658-1777." Historical Methods 13 (Spring 1980): 81-104.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake." William and Mary Quarterly 45 (January 1988): 135-59.
Notes: Carr and Walsh make detailed use of probate records from seventeenth and eighteenth century Maryland to argue that the period in Chesapeake area history represented a shift from an early emphasis upon material necessities to an improved standard of living marked by "gentility." The authors contend that this change reached across class lines and helped to fuel, rather than check, the productive economy of the colony. The article includes extensive tables and graphs of evidence regarding consumer items for several Maryland and Virginia counties.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Costello, M. Starr. "The Role of Wealth in Widowhood and Remarriage Patterns in Seventeenth Century Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 28 (July 1980): 197-216.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
"A Dialect Study of St. Mary's County, Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 30 (November 1982): 497-504; (December 1982): 507-15.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, St. Mary's County
Dyson, Roy. "St. Mary's County and Maryland's 350th Anniversary." Chronicles of St. Mary's 32 (February 1984): 125-128.
Fausz, J. Frederick. "Present at the 'Creation': The Chesapeake World that Greeted the Maryland Colonists." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 7-20.
Notes: Fausz examines relations between Europeans (especially the English of Maryland and Virginia) and Native Americans of the Chesapeake region in the decade immediately preceding the settlement of the Maryland colony at St. Mary's in 1634. He argues that the interaction between Englishmen and Native Americans provided the basis for tobacco cultivation and the beaver fur trade. Both paved the way for successful adaption of the early English settlers to new American conditions.
Categories: County and Local History, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Gibb, James G., and Julia A. King. "Gender, Activity Areas, and Homelots in the 17th-Century Chesapeake Region." Historical Archaeology 25 (1991): 109-131.
Notes: Using archaeological records and spatial analysis from three Southern Maryland tobacco plantation sites, the authors provide an ethnographic look at life for seventeenth-century Maryland colonists in terms of gender and class roles. The article provides a brief overview of the economics of the Chesapeake region, the structure of living arrangements, and the gendered nature of tasks. The evidence suggests how gendered and class-based activities contributed to both household production and accrued wealth. The authors conclude that comparisons between the three sites provide the basis for understanding how household wealth was a direct corollary of the ability to secure a large work force and to develop a high degree of specialization.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Guazzo, Eugene. "Hunting the Fox in Saint Mary's." Chronicles of St. Mary's 28 (May 1980): 177-86.
Guyther, J. Roy. "Moonshine in St. Mary's." Chronicles of St. Mary's 39 (Fall 1991): 49-52.
Guyther, Joseph Roy. "Riddle of the Amish Culture." Chronicles of St. Mary's 45 (Fall 1997): 242-46.
Hammett, Regina Combs. "New York City Orphans in St. Mary's County, Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 38 (Winter 1990): 369-70.
Hammett, Regina Combs. "The Bootleg Industry." Chronicles of St. Mary's 39 (Fall 1991): 52-57.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Horn, James. Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Notes: Horn examines Chesapeake society in the period 1607 to 1690 to determine the degree to which English attitudes and values persisted in the adaptation to New World conditions. He provides a comparison of the English societies from which the settlers had come (Gloucestershire and Kent as representative regions of England) to those they established in the Chesapeake region (Lower Norfolk and Lancaster Counties in Virginia serve as case studies, supplemented by considerable evidence drawn from St. Mary's County, Maryland) in terms of family, work, standard of living, social order, and religion. Horn concludes that "Maryland and Virginia society is incomprehensible without an awareness of English social development in the seventeenth century" (p. 437).
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Hoxie, John W. "Foxhunting at Belvidere Farm." Chronicles of St. Mary's 28 (June 1980): 189-96.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, St. Mary's County
Hurry, Silas D. "The 17th Century Tidewater, A Tentative Dietary Analysis." Chronicles of St. Mary's 26 (April 1978): 367-73.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Keeler, Robert Winston. The Homelot on the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake Tidewater Frontier. Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon, 1978.
Notes: St. John's in St. Mary's City.
Linton, Jane R. "All Saints Parish, Oakley, Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Summer 1995): 38-40.
Poole, Martha Sprigg. "Tudor Hall and Those Who Lived There." Chronicles of St. Mary's 37 (Winter 1989): 258-70.
Sharon, Michael B. "A Social Profile of the Land Owners of 1660." Chronicles of St. Mary's 29 (July 1981): 333-44; (August 1981): 347-51.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Fenwick, Charles E. "The Whiskey Ferry: Shedding Light on a Shady Subject." Chronicles of St. Mary's 45 (Winter 1997): 263-64.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, St. Mary's County
Stone, Garry W. "History of Mattapany Road (Path)." Chronicles of St. Mary's 37 (Fall 1989): 247-49.
Burwell, Gale, trans. "Diary of Rose Stettinius Gray." Chronicles of St. Mary's 41 (Fall 1993): 229-48.
Fresco, Margaret King Myers. "Caroline R. Martin, M.D. (1874-1958)." Chronicles of St. Mary's 38 (Spring 1990): 300-3.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Women, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Hammett, Regina Combs. "A Tribute...Loretta Combs Wise." Chronicles of St. Mary's 45 (Fall 1997): 254-55.