Sources Used to Create this Book

The following primary and secondary sources were consulted in the development of Children's Lives at Colonial London Town: The Stories of Three Families. Links to web materials were accurate at the time of publication.

Books

Allison, Robert J. The American Revolution: A Concise History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Baumgarten, Linda. What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2002.

Blecki, Catherine La Courreye and Karin A. Wulf. Milcah Martha Moore's Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

Doak, Robin. Voices from Colonial America: Maryland 1634-1776. National Geographic Voices from Colonial America, James D. Rice, Ph.D., consultant. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2007.

Earle, Alice Morse. Child Life in Colonial Days. American Classics. Introduction by Jack Larkin. Stockbridge, Massachusetts: Berkshire House Publishers, 1993.

Ekirch, A. Roger. Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts Transported to the Colonies, 1718-1775. London: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Gunderson, Joan R.. To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Hawke, David Freeman. Everyday Life in Early America. The Everyday Life in America Series, ed. Richard Balkin. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.

Historic London Town and Gardens. Growing Up During the Eighteenth Century. Edgewater, Maryland: London Town, 2009.

Kerns, Mechelle. “London Town: The Life of a Colonial Town.” thesis. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1999.

Kerns, Mechelle and Mollie Ridout. Dr. Richard Hill of London Town. Edgewater, Maryland: London Town Foundation, Inc., 1996.

Lukes, Bonnie L.. Colonial America. World History Series. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2000.

Morgan, Phillip D.. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Reaney J. Kelly. Quakers in the Founding of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1963.

Rollo, Vera Foster. The Black Experience in Maryland. Lanham: Maryland Historical Press, 1984.

Russell, Donna V. Historic London Town, Maryland. Edgewater, Maryland: London Town Foundation, Inc., 2006.

Schaun, George and Virginia. Everyday Life in Colonial Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia, 16th ed. Lanham, Maryland: Maryland Historical Press, 1996.

Shomette, Donald. London Town: A Brief History. Londontown, Maryland: London Town Publik House Commission, Inc., 1978.

Sonneborn, Liz. A Primary Source History of the Colony of Maryland. Primary Sources of the Thirteen Colonies and the Lost Colony. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2006.

Steins, Richard. Colonial America. The Making of America. New York: Raintree Steck–Vaughn Publishers, 2000.

Taylor, Alan. American Colonies: The Settling of North America. The Penguin History of the United States, ed. Eric Foner. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.

Williams, Jean Kinney. The Maryland Colony. Our Thirteen Colonies. Chanhassen, Minnesota: The Child's World, 2004.

Wright, F. Edward. Anne Arundel County Church Records of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Westminster, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1994.

Yentsch, Anne E.. A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves: A Study in Historical Archaeology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Primary Sources

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURT (Judgment Records) MSA C9-1, MdHR861.

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURT (Land Records) Liber BB2, f. 405, 11 December 1760 MSA C97-24.

Letters of Doctor Richard Hill and his Children: Or, The History of a Family, as Told By Themselves.
Collected and arranged by John Jay Smith. Philadelphia: privately printed, 1854. Accessed April 2012. Available from http://archive.org/stream/lettersofdoctorr00smit#page/n11/mode/2up.

Maryland State Archives. Maryland Gazette.
Digital images available at the Archives of Maryland Online for the years 1728-1839. http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/mdgazette.html.

Morton, Thomas G. and Frank Woodbury. The History of the Pennsylvania Hospital: 1751-1895. Philadelphia: Times Printing House, 1895.

Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, January 1657/8 - September 1664. Reproduced in William Hand Browne, Edward C. Papenfuse, et. al. eds., Archives of Maryland, 215+ volumes, (Baltimore and Annapolis, Md., 1883-), Volume: Page/Pages Cited (hereinafter cited as Archives of Maryland). This series is ongoing and available on line at http://archivesofmaryland.net/ where volumes, collectively or individually, can be searched electronically.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (All Hallow's Protestant Episcopal Church, All Hallow's Parish Collection) Parish Register 1669-1721, MSA SC 2458 SCM 221-1.

Additional Websites

Historic London Town. http://www.historiclondontown.org

Historic London Town and Gardens - Education and Interpretation Manual. February 2007. Accessed April 2012. Available from http://www.historiclondontown.org/files/Ed&InterpManual-HistoricArea-web.pdf.

Maryland State Archives http://www.msa.md.gov

Ware, Donna. “William Brown House.” History and Archaeology. Historic London Town and Gardens. Accessed April 2012. Available from http://www.historiclondontown.org/index.php/history-archaeology/william-brown-house

Teaching American History in Maryland: Documents for the Classroom. Maryland State Archives. http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/

 

Teaching American History: Lesson Plans. UMBC Center for History Education. http://www.umbc.edu/che/tahlessons/

 

Teaching American History: History Labs. UMBC Center for History Education. http://www.umbc.edu/che/historylabs/

 

This project was developed through a Teaching American History Grant partnership between Anne Arundel County Public Schools, the Center for History Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and Historic London Town and Gardens.