2010 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, narrative 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?  Why would this be considered a permanent record?)  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.

Links to documents:

OPTION #1 -
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) Jerningham Drury, 1826, pages 292-3, MSA C 153-8, MdHR 13,808-2.
 

OPTION #2 -
MARYLAND STATE PAPERS (Red Books) An Inventory of Houshold [sic] Furniture the Property of Sir Robert Eden, Baronet, left in the possession of His Excellency Thomas Sim Lee Esq. MSA S 989 MdHR 4557 Book 1, Item 7.

OPTION #3 -
GOVERNOR (Miscellaneous Papers) Hicks to Butler, April 23, 1861, MSA S 1274-6636-58-10-6.