Religious and Civil Freedom Under Law: original sources at the Maryland State Archives
- Act Concerning Religion [known as the Act of Toleration] (April 21, 1649). GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Proceedings) 1637-1657 MSA S1071-4 (original) and
GENERAL ASSEMBLY, UPPER HOUSE (Proceedings) MSA S 977-1, ff. 354-359 (official recorded version). For an introduction and a transcription and illustrations (8mb) of the Act see: Gerald W. Johnson, The Maryland
Act of Toleration (Annapolis: Maryland Hall of Records, 1973). The original was on exhibit at the Library of Congress in Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, which continues as an electronic exhibit at http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01-2.html.
- See also: An Act Concerning Religion, April 21, 1649 An Interpretation and Tribute to the Citizen Legislators of Maryland. Archives of Maryland (Documents for the Classroom) MSA SC 2221-25.
- "The Lord Baltimore's Case concerning his Plantation in Mary-Land" - February 1649/50
- The Bush River Declaration - March 22, 1775
- First copy of the Declaration of Independence including the names of the signers,
printed by Mary Katherine Goddard, January 18, 1777.
- Washington Resigns his Commission, December 23, 1784
- Proclaiming Peace, January 14, 1784
- The United States Constitution - first printing in Maryland, September 22, 1787
- The Bill of Rights - signed by Thomas Jefferson (1791)
- Current Maryland Constitution
Documents for the Classroom - Captain Berry's Will Debauchery, Miscegenation, & Family Strife Among 18th Century Gentry transcribed and introduced by Carson Gibb, Ph.D. (c. 1784)
Letter from John Hewes to his father Edward discussing his sale of the
Baltimore newspaper Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser to William Gwynn, November 6, 1812
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