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 APPENDIXY OF

Containing a number of Letters from

OF VIR

AL

F 189 .A6R5 1841 66178

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, PRINTER.

DEDICATION.

TO THE

CITIZENS OF ANNAPOLIS,

THIS LITTLE VOLUME

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

BY

THE AUTHOR.