Originally published in 1993, we have split the original work into two parts and added a supplement containing the 1775 census and two hundreds (subdivisions) of the 1776 census (which were inadvertently omitted from the initial publication) and corrections. This represents a collection of data covering the period: 1773 (when the county was formed) through 1790. Volumes 1 and 2 have been extracted from the following: tax lists of 1774, 1776 (missing two Hundreds now contained in the supplement), 1778, 1783; censuses of 1776 and 1790; Dr. Archer's ledgers; orphans' court proceedings; family...

These records were taken from the microfilm copies of the original records found in the Maryland State Archives Special Collections and from cemetery records maintained by the Harford County Historical Society. "While there is a gap in the registers from 1800 to 1834, the later records do contain some information for that time period, mainly birth dates and/or ages. To help fill this gap, I the author] decided to include all the data for the hundred year period from 1820 to 1920 that pertained to births, baptisms (including sponsors), marriages, confirmations, communicants (received and...

Henry Peden's three-volume series, Early Harford Countians contains over 30,000 entries about people living in Harford County between 1773 and 1790. This work covers the ensuing decade, thereby bringing the eighteenth century to completion. This book contains information gleaned from miscellaneous and obscure records (spanning the years 1791 through 1800). It includes genealogical information gleaned from tax lists, insolvent lists, store accounts, medical ledger entries, county court minutes, criminal court dockets, field survey books, Bible records, and cemetery records and inscriptions. In...