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• The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #13; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by James Wharton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Cruises, Mainly in the Bay of the Chesapeake (Bryn Mawr: The Franklin Press, 1909), by Robert Barrie and George Barrie (illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com)
• Documents Relative to the Susquehanna Canal Company (For the Extension of the Pennsylvania Canal to Tide Water on the Chesapeake) (Baltimore: Printed by Sands and Neilson, 1835), contrib. by Pennsylvania and Edward F. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maryland's Oysters: Research and Management (1981), by Victor S. Kennedy and Linda L. Breisch (PDF with commentary at UMD)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate: An Intimate and Objective History of the Province of Maryland to the Overthrow of Proprietary Rule in 1654, With Accounts of Lord Baltimore's Settlement at Avalon (Washington: The author, 1961), by Harry Wright Newman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pillars of Maryland (Richmond: Dietz Press, c1950), by Francis Sims McGrath (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Church of the Brethren in Maryland (Elgin, IL: Brethren Pub. House, c1936), by Jerry Maurice Henry (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Western Maryland: Being a History of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett Counties From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Including Biographical Sketches of Their Representative Men (2 volumes; Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1882), by J. Thomas Scharf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of Maryland (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1914), by George F. Bragg
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Message from the Governor of Maryland, Transmitting the Reports of the Joint Commissioners, and of Lt. Col. Graham, U. S. Engineers, in Relation to the Intersection of the Boundary Lines of the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, by Commission on Boundary Lines (page images at MOA)

• History of the Church of the Brethren in Maryland (Elgin, IL: Brethren Pub. House, c1936), by Jerry Maurice Henry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maryland Not a Roman Catholic Colony: Stated in Three Letters (Minneapolis: Johnson and Smith, printers, 1875), by Edward D. Neill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Rambles in the Path of the Steam-Horse, by Eli Bowen (page images at MOA)
• A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina (Boston: J. Norman, 1787), by Thomas Hutchins
  • PDF at ohiomemory.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• The Rootless (New York et al.: Vantage Press, c1957), by Waters E. Turpin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Maryland Dents: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Judge Thomas Dent and Captain John Dent Who Settled Early in the Province of Maryland (Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1963), by Harry Wright Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hollyday and Related Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland: Including the Truman, Vaughan, Covington, Lloyd, Robins, Chamberlaine, Hayward, Carmichael, Murray, Bennett, Earle, Chew, Hemsley, Tilghman, Goldsborough, and Other Families (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1962), by James Bordley, ed. by Walter B. Norris and Walter D. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cecil Family of Maryland: A Genealogy and History of Some Descendants of William Cecil, ca. 1665-1749, With Some Allied Ball Families (1963), by Walter V. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate: An Intimate and Objective History of the Province of Maryland to the Overthrow of Proprietary Rule in 1654, With Accounts of Lord Baltimore's Settlement at Avalon (Washington: The author, 1961), by Harry Wright Newman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Stones of Poynton Manor: A Genealogical History of Captain William Stone, Gent. and Merchant, Third Proprietary Governor of Maryland, With Sketches of His English Background and a Record of Some of His Descendants in the United States (Washington, DC: The author, 1937), by Harry Wright Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Ratcliff of Lancashire, England and Talbot County, Maryland and His Ancestors and Descendants, 1066-1988 (electronic edition, with supplements), by Clarence E. Ratcliff (PDF files with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Leading Events of Maryland History; With Topical Analyses, References, and Questions for Original Thought and Research (includes a history of Maryland counties by Bates; Baltimore: Cushing Co., 1903), by J. Montgomery Gambrill, contrib. by M. Bates Stephens
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland, 1686-1776 (Baltimore: Typothetae of Baltimore, 1922), by Lawrence C. Wroth
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1972), by J. A. Leo Lemay (PDF at Tennessee)

• Peggy Stewart at School (New York: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1918), by Gabrielle E. Jackson (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Maryland, My Maryland, and Other Poems, by James Ryder Randall (page images at MOA)

• The Antietam and Its Bridges: The Annals of an Historic Stream (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910), by Helen Ashe Hays, illust. by John C. Artz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chincoteague: A National Wildlife Refuge (Washington: G. P. O., 1947), by Rachel Carson, illust. by Shirley A. Briggs and Katherine L. Howe (PDF at unl.edu)

• Ferry Hill Plantation Journal, January 4, 1838 - January 15, 1839, by John Blackford, ed. by Fletcher M. Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Western Maryland Mine Drainage Survey, 1962-1965 (7 parts in 3 volumes), by Thomas C. Hopkins (PDF files at mdsoar.org)

• The Witness: Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Carroll County, Maryland (2004), ed. by Jesse Glass (PDF at archive-it.org)
• Notes on the Progress of the Colored People of Maryland Since the War (1890), by Jeffrey R. Brackett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1972), by J. A. Leo Lemay (PDF at Tennessee)

• Address of the Federal Republican Committee of Kent County to the Electors of the Same (ca. 1803), by Democratic Party (Md.) (page images at LOC)

• Documents Relative to the Susquehanna Canal Company (For the Extension of the Pennsylvania Canal to Tide Water on the Chesapeake) (Baltimore: Printed by Sands and Neilson, 1835), contrib. by Pennsylvania and Edward F. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maryland Not a Roman Catholic Colony: Stated in Three Letters (Minneapolis: Johnson and Smith, printers, 1875), by Edward D. Neill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware, and Georgia (Lancaster, MA: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, 1950), by Frederick Lewis Weis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (Boston: A. D. Phelps, 1849), by Josiah Henson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1858), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson ("Uncle Tom"), From 1789 to 1881 (revised and enlarged edition; London, ON: Schuyler, Smith, and Co., 1881), by Josiah Henson, ed. by John Lobb, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, S. Morley, Wendell Phillips, and John Greenleaf Whittier (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1876 (London: Christian Age Office, 1876), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, and S. Morley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by James McCune Smith (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Bondage and My Freedom (c1855), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by James McCune Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• Narrative of Events in the Life of William Green (Formerly a Slave): Written by Himself (Springfield, MA: L. M. Guernsey, 1853), by William Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Life and Labors of the Rev. G. W. Offley, A Colored Man, Local Preacher and Missionary (1859), by G. W. Offley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text

• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Hartford: Park Pub. Co., 1881), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Boston: De Wolfe and Fiske Co., c1892), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Bulletin (Maryland Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources) (partial serial archives)

• The Pennsylvania-German in the Settlement of Maryland (#25 in a series on Pennsylvania-German history; Lancaster, PA: Pennsylvania-German Society, 1914), by Daniel W. Nead, illust. by Julius Friedrich Sachse
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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