Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Eliza May Stevens (1786-1834)
MSA SC 3520-2248
First Lady of Maryland, 1822-1826

Notes on Sources

1.  White, Frank F. Jr. The Governors of Maryland 1777-1970. (Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1970), 83;
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (St. Peter's Parish Records) Parish Register, 1721-1822, 1796-1868 [MSA SC 2640].

2.  SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Susan E. Harwood Collection), Stevens Family Papers, MdHR G2280 2-1 [MSA SC 2280].

3.  SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Susan E. Harwood Collection), Stevens Family Papers, MdHR G2280 2-1 [MSA SC 2280].

4.  [Source lists another wife for Samuel Stevens, a Celia Townes on September 5, 1807.  Daughters of the American Revolution, Carter Braxton Chapter.  Marriage Licenses of Talbot County, Maryland 1794-1810. (Baltimore, D.A.R., n.d.), 30.]
Buchholz, Heinrich Ewald. Governors of Maryland, 2nd ed. (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins co., 1908), 96;
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Susan E. Harwood Collection), Stevens Family Papers, MdHR 2280 2-1 [MSA SC 2280].

5.  White, Frank F. Governors of Maryland: 1777-1970. (Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1970), 61.

6.  SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Susan E. Harwood Collection), Stevens Family Papers, MdHR G2280 2-1 [MSA SC 2280].

7.  [Maryland Historical Society Files indicate that Eliza May Stevens died on December 6, 1834.  Source:  Eastern Shore Whig, no date.]
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Susan E. Harwood Collection), Stevens Family Papers, MdHR 2280 2-1 [MSA SC 2280];
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Ranum Collection), Stevens Family Papers [MSA SC 2878];
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Stevens Family Papers), Stevens Family Papers, Reel 1, p. 158 [MSA SC 1377].
Death notice. Easton Gazette, 13 December 1834.

8.  SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Susan E. Harwood Papers) Stevens Family Papers, MdHR G2280 2-1 [MSA SC 2280];
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (St. Peter's Parish Records) Parish Register, 1721-1822, 1796-1868 [MSA SC 2640].

9.  DuPont, Dolores L.  "Location of the Final Burial Site of Gov. Samuel Stevens, Jr."  Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin.  (Spring 1997), 209.


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