Land Office and Prerogative Court Records of Colonial Maryland. State of Maryland Publications of the Hall of Records Commission No. 4 - Paperback

by Elisabeth Hartsook (Author), Gust Skordas (Author)

About two-thirds of this work is devoted to a history of the land administered by colonial Maryland, with a detailed inventory of Patents, Warrants, Proprietary Leases, Rent Rolls, Debt Books, etc. The remainder consists of a study of the colonial Prerogative Court, which had control over probate matters.