Maryland State Archives
Skills Assessment

Please choose one of the following documents to download.  After reviewing the document, please transcribe it and then compose a brief statement about its significance (i.e. How can it be used in the study of history?  What, if anything, does it convey about the people, the place, the time period?)  Please send your completed work with the rest of your application materials.  The information submitted will be used to assist the hiring committee in the selection and placement process.

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If you are unable to read these files or experience any difficulties at all, please contact Emily Oland Squires immediately at emilyo@mdsa.net or 410-260-6443.

OPTION #1 -

Mary Johnson, Somerset County, 1671 power of attorney and deed of gift.
SOMERSET COUNTY COURT (Judicial Record) MSA C 1774-3, ff. 159-162.

Whole document, ff. 559-162  (as a multi-layer tif file)

Whole document, ff. 559-162 (as a pdf file)

Individual Pages as pdf files:

f. 559
f. 560
f. 561
f. 562

OPTION #2 -

Petition from local residents regarding Samuel Green.
GOVERNOR (Miscellaneous Papers) 1857 MSA S 1274-56.

Whole document  (as a multi-layer tif)

Whole document  (as a multi-layer pdf) 

OPTION #3 -

Text of a joint resolution of the Maryland General Assembly.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY (Joint Resolutions). 1870.  MSA S 967-1870-8 MdHR 50,029.

Whole document  (as a mulit-layer tif)

Whole document  (as a mulit-layer pdf)

OPTION #4 -

Docket entry for petition of Donald G. Murray for a Writ of Mandamus.
BALTIMORE CITY COURT (Petition Docket) 18 April 1935. MSA T 549-10, GCL #13, 1930-1936, p. 284.

Whole document  (as a mulit-layer tif)

Whole document  (as a mulit-layer pdf)