We have compiled a list of genealogical resources that may be useful when researching about Maryland and Maryland Defenders in the War of 1812.

These are tools and data sources to determine the patriotic service of your ancestor.

Maryland Society Resources:

•  Society Membership Brochure

•   “Francis Scott Key’s Truce Ship” Louis F. Giles, The Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland

•  Heritage of Courage, A Bicentennial Celebration of the Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland (Llumina Press, 2012) Cummins, Robert T., Jr, 

•  Blizzard, Dennis F. and Hollowak, Thomas L. Chronicle of War of 1812 Soldiers, Seamen, and Marines (Genealogical Publishing Company W/Supplement 2009)

•  Marine, William M., The British Invasion of Maryland 1812-1815 (Baltimore: Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland, 1913)

•  Hickman, Nathaniel, The citizen soldiers at North Point and Fort McHenry, September 12 & 13, 1814. Resolves of the citizens in town meeting, particulars relating to the battle, official correspondence and honorable discharge of the troops (1858)

•   Baltimore City Directories

•  Defender/Graves Index (coming soon!)

•  Cranwell, John P. and William B. Crane, Men of Marque: A history of private armed vessels out of Baltimore during the War of 1812 (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1940)

•  Garitee, Jerome R., The Republics Private Navy: the American privateering business as practiced by Baltimore during the War of 1812 (Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1977)

•  Raborg Jr., C. Louis, comp., The Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland (Essex, MD: Custom Printing, 2011)

British Invasion of Maryland

Citizen Soldiers

Baltimore City Directories