Daughters of the American Revolution Elk Chapter (Elkton, Md.) transcripts of Cecil County wills
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of handwritten and typed transcripts of ninety-one 17th and 18th century wills from Cecil County, Maryland. The collection also includes a 20-page photocopied index that corresponds with many of the names of individuals found on wills. Though the photocopies were made circa 1980, the date span of their source material, the original wills, ranges from 1675-1720. The original arrangement of the collection has been preserved which orders the wills according to an unknown numbering system.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1980
Creator
Language of Materials
Materials entirely in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library, https://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?askspec
Extent
92 item
Abstract
Photocopies of handwritten and typed transcripts of ninety-one 17th and 18th century wills from Cecil County, Maryland. Though the photocopies were made circa 1980, the date span of the original wills ranges from 1675-1720. The collection also includes a 20-page photocopied index that corresponds with many of the names of individuals found on wills.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Emma Grace McCabe McCool, January 1980.
General
Box 71: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099
Processing Information
Processed and encoded by Dustin Frohlich, October 2017.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Finding aid for Daughters of the American Revolution Elk Chapter (Elkton, Md.) transcripts of Cecil County wills
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Date
- 2017 October
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository