In 1995/96, the land records for Maryland for the years 1679-1783 were abstracted and published. Coldlham has integrated those records with Gust Skordas' chronicle of the genealogical and demographic fortunes of immigrants to the territory from 1633 to 1680. The entries include family name, county, name of tract, acreage, and original source references. The listing is alphabetical by family name; names of tracts are indexed. c. Book News Inc.

"Settlers of Maryland 1679-1700" extends Gust Skordas's renowned "Early Settlers of Maryland" through the last quarter of the 17th century, identifying several thousand immigrants and their colorfully named tracts. Based on the same series of records as Skordas--Land Office books on file at the Hall of Records in Annapolis--the entries in this work are arranged by family name, county, name of tract granted, acreage, date, and reference to original source(s). Tract names often suggest English places familiar to the settler--perhaps places of origin or residence--and they are so many and so various that an index of tract names has been appended to the book.

This is the last volume in Mr. Coldham's important series of indexes to land grants issued in Maryland during the colonial period. It contains an alphabetical list (by grantee name) of the 4,500 grants issued in Maryland from l766 to the end of the Revolutionary War. Based exclusively on documents found at the Hall of Records in Annapolis, it provides a unique record of virtually every land grant made in Maryland during the twilight period of British colonial rule. Entries are arranged by family name, county, name of tract, acreage, date, and reference to original source(s). Altogether, several thousand landowners are named along with their numerous and vast tracts of land.