[625] The journal of Col. James Burd, while building Fort Augusta, at Shamokin, 1756-57, is in the Penna. Archives, 2d ser., ii. p. 743. Loudon caused Fort Loudon to be built on the Tennessee in 1756. There is a MS. plan of it in the De Brahm MS. in Harvard College library.
[626] John Echols’s journal about “a march that Capt. Robert Wade took to the New River” in search of Indians, Aug.-Oct., 1758, is in Palmer’s Calendar, p. 254; and papers on the expedition against the Shawnee Indians in 1756 are in Maxwell’s Virginia Register, vol. v. pp. 20, 61.
[627] Vol. III. p. 555.
[628] Archives of Maryland. Proceedings and acts of the general assembly, January, 1617-38-September, 1664. Published by authority of the State, under the direction of the Maryland Historical Society. William Hand Browne, editor. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society. 1883. Two other volumes have since been published.
[629] Archives of Maryland: Calendar and Report by the Publication Committee of the Maryland Hist. Society, 1883.
[630] This Calendar shows that the Proprietary records, with few gaps, exist from 1637 to 1658; the council proceedings from 1636 to 1671, with some breaks; the assembly proceedings from 1637 to 1658 (included in the published volume, with continuation from the Public Record Office in London to 1664); the Upper House Journals from 1659 to 1774; the Senate Journals, 1780-83; the Lower House Journals, 1666 to 1774; the Revolutionary journals, 1775-1780; the Laws from 1638 to 1710 (those to 1664 are continued in the published volume, and the commissioners say that the full text probably exists of these from 1692 to 1774; and while Bacon in his edition of the Laws had given only six of the 300 laws, and none before 1664 in full, the commissioners in the printed volume have supplied the full text of the others from the Public Record Office); the Court Records, 1658-1752; Letters, 1753-1771; Council of Safety Correspondence, 1775-77; Council Correspondence, 1777-93; Commission books, 1726-1798; Commission on the Public Records, 1724-1729; Minutes of the Board of Revenue, 1768-1775; the David Ridgely copies of important papers (1682-1785), made in 1838; and Ethan Allen’s Calendar of Maryland State Papers, 1636-1776, made in 1858. (See Vol. III. p. 556.)
The laws of Maryland, 1692-1718, were printed in Philadelphia by Bradford. (Hildeburn’s Penna. Publications, no. 150.) The charter of Maryland, with the debates of the assembly in 1722-24, was printed in Philadelphia in 1725. (Ibid. no. 255.)
[631] Vol. III. p. 559.
[632] Ch. v. Bancroft (History of the United States, orig. ed., ii. 244) says: “The chapters of Chalmers on Maryland are the most accurate of them all.”
[633] One of the American Commonwealths, edited by Mr. Horace E. Scudder.