Name/Title
Janson-La Palme Collection--St. Mary's Inventories--1832-1864Entry/Object ID
2012.007.0053Scope and Content
20 sheets ; 14" x 25 1/2" in a 16 1/2" x 26 7/8" folder
Bayly Janson-La Palme worked with Lois Green Carr on economic data about colonial Maryland. Ms. Janson-La Palme then did her own work on economic data about Saint Mary's County from 1790-1870. She relied on census data, assessment records, estate inventories, etc. Her dissertation was based on this material, although the analysis in the dissertation only went up through 1840. The voluminous handwritten data was later transcribed onto 5 1/4" floppy disks using PC WRITE. That data was run on the mainframe computer at the University of Maryland. The disks, spread sheets, and other printouts are at the Hall of Records of the Maryland Archives.
This group of sheets was labeled as "St. Mary's Inventories."
Numbered columns from left to right: Year [of inventory], Month, [Name of Decedent], Ad[ministrator]/Ex[ecutor], [Monetary value of the estate], Livestock (further subdivided into 17 categories), Poultry (further subdivided into 5 categories), Slaves (further subdivided into 6 categories), Transport (further subdivided into 7 categories), Plantation (further subdivided into 7 categories), Tools (further subdivided into 7 categories), Weaving (further subdivided into 6 categories), Crops (further subdivided into 24 categories), Personal [Effects] (further subdivided into 14 categories), House [Effects] (further subdivided into 5 categories), Profession, Per Cent of Inventory (further subdivided into 8 categories),
The numbered rows contained all the data entered into the columns for each decedent.
Inventories for 1832-1835 contained information on 111 decedents.
The entries for 1835-1840 covered 114 decedents. 1840- covered 114 decedents. 1845-1851 covered 126 decedents.
The 1851-1855 group covered 123 decedents. An 1855-1859 group covered 79 decedents. An 1859-1865 group covered 122 decedents.Collection
Janson-La Palme CollectionArchive Items Details
Date(s) of Creation
1832 - 1864Location
Container
Janson-La Palme Collection Map Drawer 5Drawer
Drawer 5Cabinet
Map CaseRoom
BasementBuilding
Tudor HallRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Janson-La Palme, Bayly