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
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 ...