Researching the book, I was surprised by how many records have been kept from the colonial period in Maryland. Many of these were collected and are now stored at the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis. Since my two previous posts deal with the Beall family of Rockville and the courthouses there, this photograph of the Montgomery County Court's Minute Book from 1779 shows what kinds of records are in the archives. Inside is the neat penmanship of the court's first clerk, Brooke Beall, who owned Yarrow Mamout.
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