"The main purpose of this work is to chronicle and categorize the life experiences of 519 persons who entered Maryland as indentured servants or, to a lesser extent, as convicts forcibly transported [between 1634-1777]. The text itself is composed of solidly researched sketches of Maryland servants and convicts and their descendants, including 84 that are traced to the third generation or beyond."--Amazon.com.

This volume contains short genealogies for early families in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Families include Acton, Barnes, Basil, Bateman, Battee, Beard, Bedingfield, Belt, Besson, Bickerdike, Bird, Boyd, Burle, Burrage, Carpenter, Chiffin, Clarke, Conant, Crandall, Crosby, Cross, Cullen, Davidson, Dawson, Disney, Drury, Edwards, Freeborne, French, Gadsby, Gongo, Griffith, Groce, Hearn, Holbrook, Homewood, Hooker, Hooper, Hopkins, Hopper, James, Johnson, Jones, Joyce, Knighton, Lamb, Lockwood, Marriott, Mead, Mewshaw, Musgrove, Nichols, Norman, Parsons, Pearce, Pennington, Phelps, Poole, Porter, Powell, Puddington, Reed, Robins, Rowles, Scrivener, Sewell, Simpson, Sisson, Stewart, Tucker, Tydings, Wade, Warner, Watkins, Watts, Westall, Woodward, Wright, and Wyvil.

"The families in this volume were found in many counties, but primarily Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties."--Page ix.

The work at hand is the only comprehensive history of Anson County, spanning over 225 years of the county's growth from a vast wilderness to a thriving industrial and agricultural community. The first third of the volume traces politics in the county. The middle portion covers Anson's social history, including education, religion, agriculture and industry, social and cultural life, etc. The final third of the book provides biographical sketches of scores of Anson "Men and Women of Note" and a number of source record collections of great import to genealogists.