Lith.of Ed. Weber & Co Balt? STATE HOUSE AT ANNAPOLIS IN 1789

COMPRISING

SUNDRY NOTICES OF THAT OLD CITY

FROM THE PERIOD OF

THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS IN ITS VICINITY IN THE

YEAR 1649, UNTIL THE WAR OF 1812:

TOGETHER WITH

VARIOUS INCIDENTS IN THE HISTORY OF MARYLAND,

DERIVED FROM

EARLY RECORDS, PUBLIC DOCUMENTS,

AND OTHER SOURCES :

WITH AN APPENDIX,

Containing a number of Letters from

GENERAL WASHINGTON, AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED PERSONS,

WHICI LETTERS HAVE NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED BEFORE.

BON

COMPILED AND EDITED BY
DAVID RIDGELY

Librarian of the State Library.

BALTIMORE:
PUBLISHED BY CUSHING & BROTHER.

* 1841.

ENTERED according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1840,

BY DAVID RIDGELY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maryland.

JOHN D. TOY, PRIXTER.

DEDICATION.

TO THE

CITIZENS OF ANNAPOLIS,

THIS LITTLE VOLUME

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

BY

THE AUTHOR.