Excerpt from Centennial Celebration of the Erection of Montgomery County, MD: Into a Separate Municipality, Held at Rockville, September 6, 1876 Few events have occurred in Maryland which combine so much pure and genuine hospitality, dignity, social intercouse, intellec tual instrution, and historical exhibits as were collected and brought together at the Montgomery county cente'nnial celebra tion on the 6th of Sept, 1876. Such events, so well calculated to harmonize and bring together a whole community, as it were, into one patriotic family of fraternal relation and brotherhood, deserve more than a passing notice. Under this conviction the publisher, as far as practicable, has brought to view the addresses, incidents, and exhibits on the joyous occasion; and ventures upon its publication in this unpretentious form, in the hope and ex pectation that it will be appeciated as not the least of the many interesting events called forth by the recurrence of the Centen nial year of our National Independence. It is to be regretted that all the interesting letters read on the occasion, could not be fur nished to the publisher, and a list of all the time-honored relics exhib ted; but this is owing to the fact that many of them were removed from the grounds on the day of celebration without furnishing the differect committees with a list of them. The addresses from the stand will follow each other in the order of their delivery, so far as can be ascertained, and a list of the exhibits Will appear in the latter pages of the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.