A List of Sources for Genealogical Information About Cecil County and its Early Families

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George Johnston, History of Cecil County (Elkton: Published by author, 1881.)

June D. Brown, compiler, Abstracts of Cecil County, Maryland Land Records 1673-1751 (Westminster, Maryland : Willow Bend Books, 1999)

June D. Brown, compiler, Abstracts of Cecil County, Maryland Land Records, 1734-1753 (Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2001)

Hope H. Barroll, compiler, Barroll Family History in Great Britain and America (1554-1910) (Family Tree Maker Online: GenealogyLibrary.com Book:,)

Plantation Life at RoseHill, the diaries of Martha Ogle Forman, Del Hist Soc., 1976.

Historical Research Comm. of the Delaware Society of the Colonial Damesof America, Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle Co., 1682-1800 (Wilmington, DE May 1910)

Copied by The Captain Jeremiah Baker Chapter DAR, compiler, Cecil County Maryland Marriage Licenses 1777-1840 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976)

Leslie & Neil Keddie, The Family Tree Bookshop, compiler, Cecil County Wills 1675-1734 MSA CM 363 No. 1 AA (folio 1--300) www.familytreebookshop.com: Waldo (Woof!) Books, 2005)

Abstracted by Leslie & Neil Keddie; The Family Tree Bookshop, compiler, Cecil County Wills 1734-1753 MSA CM 363 Liber AA Folio 301-428 Liber BB Folio 1-127 (www.familytreebookshop.com: Waldo (Woof!) Books, 2006)

Leslie & Neil Keddie, compiler, Cecil County Wills 1753-1772 MSA CM 363 Liber BB Folio 128-360 (Salisbury, Maryland: The Family Tree Bookshop; Waldo (Woof!) Books, 2006)

Henry C. Peden, Jr., compiler, Collection of Maryland Church Records (Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Heritage Books, 2000)

Henry C. Peden, Jr. & F. Edward Wright, Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland Vol 6 (Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 1999)

Henry C. Peden Jr., M.A., compiler, Colonial Maryland Soldiers and Sailors 1634-1734 (Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2001)

Ernestine Parke Moss, compiler, CORNELIUS COMEGYS of KENT COUNTY, MARYLAND (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~comegys/history/mosss.html: Cornelius Family History Page at Rootsweb, 1982)

Henry C. Peden, Jr., Early Anglican Church Records of Cecil County, Maryland (Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 1990.)

Delaware Diamonds, Ruth Stonesifer online [http://rstonesifer.com/genealogy/], accessed 4/2/2006

Mary Elinor Lazenby, Herman Husband, A Story of His Life (Old Neighborhoods Press, Washington, D.C., 1940)

Dorothy Bettina Harris Baird, compiler, Index for Cecil County, Maryland Wills and Administrations 1674-1953 (Cecil County, Maryland: Genealogical Society of Cecil County, Inc., 1994)

Abstracted by Leslie and Neil Keddie, compiler, Land Office Cecil County Rent Rolls 1733-1759 (: The Family Tree Bookshop, www.familytreebookshop.com,)

Abstracted by Leslie & Neil Keddie, compiler, Land Office Debt Book Cecil County, Maryland 1738-1759 (The Family Tree Bookshop; www.fammilytreebookshop.com: Waldo (Woof!) Books, 2002)

Genealogical Society of Cecil County, compiler, Land Patents of Cecil County, Maryland (Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2002)