The Early Settlers of Maryland

Date: 1633 to 1680
Location: Maryland, United States
Surname/tag: maryland

Contents 1 The Early Settlers of Maryland 1.1 Citing this source 1.2 Available online at these locations: 1.3 Table of Contents (1968 publication) 1.4 Errata

Other: Maryland Sources

The Early Settlers of Maryland

"The Early Settlers of Maryland," now "The New Early Settlers of Maryland," is the publication of a comprehensive index to scholarly transcriptions of Maryland records that document the arrivals of settlers who transported themselves to Maryland.

An index to names of immigrants compiled from records of land patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland.

• First version by Gust Skordas (1912-2000)
• by Maryland Hall of Records Commission; John M. Brewer, List of Early Maryland Settlers (1634-1682); Arthur Trader (1881-)
• published by The Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1968
• 525 pages

There have been three publications associated with this title:

• Skordas, Gust. The Early Settlers of Maryland; an index to names of immigrants compiled from records of land patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968.
• Gibb, Dr. Carson. A supplement to "The early settlers of Maryland" : comprising 8680 entries correcting omissions and errors in Gust Skordas, The early settlers of Maryland". Annapolis, Maryland: Maryland State Archives, c1997.
• Gibb, Dr. Carson. The New Early Settlers of Maryland. 2005.

This compilation includes all 34,326 entries from Gust Skordas' Early Settlers of Maryland and Carson Gibb's Supplement to the Early Settlers of Maryland and supersedes both of those volumes.

For information about the series, see these webpages from Maryland State Archives:

• Introduction to New Early Settlers of Maryland
• Foreword to Supplement to Early Settlers, by Christopher N. Allan, Deputy State Archivist, 1998

Ancestry.com has:

• Coldham, Peter Wilson. Settlers of Maryland, 1679-1783. Consolidated Edition. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2002.

This may be a combination of the 1968 publication and the supplement, prior to the release of The New Early Settlers of Maryland.

Citing this source

Where possible, use and cite The New Early Settlers of Maryland, as the most authoritative publication in this series.

Citation in Wikicode format:

• Gibb, Dr. Carson. ''[[Space:The Early Settlers of Maryland-1|The New Early Settlers of Maryland]]''. Maryland State Archives, 2005.

Citing the 1968 edition:

• <span id='Skordas'></span>Skordas, Gust. ''[[Space:The Early Settlers of Maryland|The Early Settlers of Maryland]]'' (Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1968) [ Page ].

• WikiTree Profiles that use this source page.

Available online at these locations:

• http://earlysettlers.msa.maryland.gov/ - Searchable database of entries in The New Early Settlers of Maryland, from Maryland State Archives
• https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/maryland-index-of-new-early-settlers-of-maryland-query-by-dr-carson-gibb ($subscription) - Searchable database of entries in The New Early Settlers of Maryland, from FindMyPast
• https://archive.org/details/earlysettlersofm00skor/ - 1968 book, available for free short-term borrowing
• https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/691316 - Supplement issued c. 1997
• https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/49058/ ($subscription) - the 2002 publication

Table of Contents (1968 publication)

• Foreword
• Introduction

• History of The Records
• Description of The Records
• Using The Index

• Index, Page 1

Errata

• When errors in this publication are found, please list the problem(s) here, and include a link to a source that describes the problem.