50 TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT

The records of Augustine and Trinity Parishes had been previously
microfilmed. Last year we were informed by the Reverend Herbert
Leswing, Jr., Rector of both parishes that the vestries had decided to
deposit the original volumes listed below.

Our first substantial acquisition of Methodist records occurred
last year when, through the cooperation of the Reverend Edwin Schell,
President of the Methodist Historical Society of the Baltimore Con-
ference, we were permitted to microfilm the volumes listed below.
They date back to 1799 and the Reverend Mr. Schell informs us that
he knows of none earlier.

Several interesting manuscript items came to us from private
sources. A volume containing the Proceedings of the Town Com-
missioners of Centreville for the years 1797-1876 was deposited by Mr.
John Emory. The acquisition of a microfilm copy of the succeeding
volume dating from 1876 to 1914 was reported in our Twenty-Second
Annual Report.

Dr. Caleb Dorsey's map depicting the boundary lines of the
original grants of land on the south side of the Severn River is a fine
piece of research. It complements very nicely a similar study of the
grants on the northern bank of the Severn prepared by James Moss
some years ago.

Through the courtesy of Mr. William Tell Claude, we were per-
mitted to microfilm a small parchment-covered book of accounts kept
by James Brice, Treasurer of the Corporation of Annapolis. These
accounts cover the period 1784-1802 and among them are a number of
entries relating to the construction of a sixty by forty foot market
house on the Dock begun in 1785.

A letter written by Governor John Hoskins Stone to President
Washington in 1795 was presented to the State by Mr. Eben O. Finney.
Governor McKeldin accepted it in behalf of the State and placed it in
our custody. Written at a time when Washington was being bitterly
criticized, the letter transmitted a timely declaration of "unabated
reliance on the integrity, judgment and patriotism of the President
of the United States" that had been adopted by the General Assembly
of Maryland on November 25, 1795.

With the anniversary of the Civil War approaching, a letter
presented by Mrs. E. S. Stock, Jr., assumes unusual interest. It was
written by A. F. Haynes, a prisoner in the Federal prison on Johnson's
Island in Ohio, to his aunt in 1864.