Fox Hunting and Social Life in Charles County, 1826 — a letter of Joseph P. Floyd to Francis Reed Wills, with background on fox hunting in Southern Maryland.

A Cavalryman in the War of 1812 — Joseph P. Floyd (uncle of Olivia Floyd and Francis Reed Wills) rides daringly to escape from the “British”.

Court cases for compensation for confiscations by Federal troops camped in the Chapel Point area during the Civil War. In one case of the Court of Claims (1884), the claimants were the Jesuits of St. Thomas Manor, seeking about $30,000 compensation for the thousands of fence rails, grain, hay, etc. (File at Georgetown Univ.). Among those were (1) Richard Hawkins (pages 46-59 of pdf; pages 29-42 of booklet), a carpenter who was enslaved at that time by the Jamesons but was residing on the Preference farms of Dr. Francis R. Wills adjacent to the Jesuits; (2) Francis Hughes Wills, son of Dr. Francis R. Wills, who lived at Preference (pages 59-70 of pdf; pages 42-53).  The second case is that of Dr. Wills himself (not yet posted).

Recollection of the early Mortons of Stafford Co. (page 1, page 2) by Mrs. Annie (Morton) Dix, daughter of James Morton of Stafford County, Va.   We have two pages of typewritten notes passed on by the late Nancy Moncure (Ralls) Southworth. It is is not clear who compiled the text we have, but the compiler properly comments that this text seems to have two parts: 1) most of the first page, in the voice of Mrs. Dix, “I only know as far back as my great-grandmother, who was Ursula Brightwell Morton.”  2) Starting at the bottom of the first page in the voice of James Morton, “My father, Richard Morton, came from Maryland”.   The two parts differ in a few details, but are basically complementary, the first part mostly about Morton descendants, and the second part about the Wallers.