This volume contains 1783 tax assessment lists for Cecil, Talbot, Harford and Calvert Counties. "The lists, arranged by hundreds within each county, show the names of landowners, number of white persons in the household, the tracts of land owned by the individual and the number of acres in the tract. There are also lists of bachelors (with their securities) and paupers (anyone who owned less than 10 pounds worth of property." A surname index adds to the value of this work.

By an Act of the Legislature, 1777 Session, Chapter Twenty, all free males over eighteen were to take an Oath of Fidelity and Support to the State of Maryland, and inscribe their names, no later than 1 March 1778. Quaker, Mennonite, and "Tunker" males wer

This index was compiled using several sources: the index of wills at the Baltimore City Court House, a partial index to the wills compiled by the late Annie Walker Burns, the original Will Books at the Hall of Records in Annapolis, and the abstracts of Will Books, numbers 4 through 23, compiled by Mrs. Burns at the Maryland Historical Society. The advantages of this index over the court house index and Mrs. Burns's partial index are first, that the entries in this index are in alphabetical order; second, that every effort has been made to correct mistakes in spelling made by the compilers of the court house index; and third, this index contains wills not indexed at the court house. This work contains approximately 8000 entries, giving the name of the testator, the year the will was probated, and the book and page number on which the will can be found.

Maps by George J. Horvath Jr. Owners, tracts, acreage, number of free males and white inhabitants, bachelors, paupers, surname/tract index.