Maryland State Archives

to do:

1) A full and detailed summary of all the facts in the Forward v. Poulson case (see below) and an assessment of its legal significance

2) Outline the questions that it raises with regard to the development of appellate rules and the tensions between the King and the colonists

3) Provide an overview of the underlying historical issues in this case and explain how you think it relates to the reading assignment for last week and this (Brugger, Chapters 1 & 2). Is there anything in the supplementary reading provided on CD that is helpful in answering the question of the relevance or importance of this case?

You may answer the questions in any word processing or html format you find comfortable. Send your answers as an attachment to an email to ecpapenfuse@aol.com by no later than Monday, September 6, and also post them on your class assignment web site.

Your assignment website is at http://www.teachersmd.net, Leading Cases. Use your last name (upper and lower case) and a password that you have chosen and emailed to me at ecpapenfuse@aol.com. Resources to consult in formulating your analysis/answers:

1) an official document in the case recently discovered in private hands (provided in hard copy and here as a pdf)

2) http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov. Use search terms derived from the document to find references to the case. Hint: use the advanced search and limit your search chronlogically to the decade surrounding the date of the document supplied, and be conscious of the fact that spelling can vary.

3) review some of the secondary literature supplied here in pdf format regarding the context of the case. Included are a table of population for Annapolis, 1699-1783 from Edward C. Papenfuse, In Pursuit of Profit, 1976, pp. 14-15; a table of population for Maryland for 1755 from The Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps, 2003, p. 51, Chapter 6, "Convict Transportation after 1718," from Abbot Emerson Smith, Colonists in Bondage, 1947, pp. 110-135, a example of a passenger list, and tables from A. Roger Ekirch, Bound for America, 1987. By 1770 about 1,000 convicts a year were being imported into Virginia and Maryland.

For Appeals to the King in Council from the Colonies see also Smith, Appeals ....

4) Secondary Sources:

Land, Aubrey C. The Dulanys of Maryland, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955, 1968, pp. 86-97.

Read and critique Edward C. Papenfuse, "The Legislative Response to a Costly War: Fiscal Policy and Factional Politics in Maryland, 1777-1789,"

Search http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov for information on the Van Staphorst claims. Note that some material on aomol.net is copyrighted and is only accessible via the user name aaco and the password aaco#

Search the pdfs of the readings cd and summarize what the leading historians of Maryland have to say about the Van Staphorst debt.

Submit a 1-2 page summary of your reading/findings by 6 p.m. Monday, September 20, uploading it to your web site (the passwords have not been changed. Use your last name and "open" at http://teachersmd.net/Leading Cases. To be on the safe side, also send a copy to ecpapenfuse@aol.com.

Hay, et. al. vs. Conner (1808) 2 H. & J. 347 Note that Blackboard.com is unreliable in passing user name (leading) and password (leading!)to my cold fusion web sites. If you have difficulty reaching this from Blackboard.com, simply go to http://msa.maryland.gov outside of Blackboard.com and use leading/leading!. From there use the search function for Hay and you will find this case in the series (Court of Appeals: Records and Briefs).

Place the case in the historical context of your reading of the texts and use the documentation to explain how it alters or enhances your understanding of the importance of the case and the sources you might use to write a paper about the case. Be sure to read all the supplied documents in the case. In addition, transcribe one page on line at http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/ecpdata/webroot/msaref04/msa-sc-5339-62-86/html/index.html, after requesting a user name and password to transcribe. Be sure to include in your request the page you are choosing to transcribe (it must be a full page of manuscript text).

In preparing your analysis of the case, indicate what sources your think you might need in order to fully document and understand the history/historical importance of the case. What sources are available/should be available on http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov to assist you? (For some references in aomol.net a user name (aaco) and a password (aaco#) are necessary).

Submit a 1-2 page summary of your reading/findings by 6 p.m. Monday, September 27, uploading it to your web site (the passwords have not been changed). Use your last name and "open" at http://teachersmd.net, hyperlink to Leading Cases. To be on the safe side, also send a copy to ecpapenfuse@aol.com. Please note you must access this site outside blackboard.com. Blackboard does not allow you to use a user name and password from here.

to do:

1) A full and detailed summary of all the facts in the Forward v. Poulson case (see below) and an assessment of its legal significance

2) Outline the questions that it raises with regard to the development of appellate rules and the tensions between the King and the colonists

3) Provide an overview of the underlying historical issues in this case and explain how you think it relates to the reading assignment for last week and this (Brugger, Chapters 1 & 2). Is there anything in the supplementary reading provided on CD that is helpful in answering the question of the relevance or importance of this case?

You may answer the questions in any word processing or html format you find comfortable. Send your answers as an attachment to an email to ecpapenfuse@aol.com by no later than Monday, September 6, and also post them on your class assignment web site.

Your assignment website is at http://www.teachersmd.net, Leading Cases. Use your last name (upper and lower case) and a password that you have chosen and emailed to me at ecpapenfuse@aol.com. Resources to consult in formulating your analysis/answers:

1) an official document in the case recently discovered in private hands (provided in hard copy and here as a pdf)

2) http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov. Use search terms derived from the document to find references to the case. Hint: use the advanced search and limit your search chronlogically to the decade surrounding the date of the document supplied, and be conscious of the fact that spelling can vary.

3) review some of the secondary literature supplied here in pdf format regarding the context of the case. Included are a table of population for Annapolis, 1699-1783 from Edward C. Papenfuse, In Pursuit of Profit, 1976, pp. 14-15; a table of population for Maryland for 1755 from The Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps, 2003, p. 51, Chapter 6, "Convict Transportation after 1718," from Abbot Emerson Smith, Colonists in Bondage, 1947, pp. 110-135, a example of a passenger list, and tables from A. Roger Ekirch, Bound for America, 1987. By 1770 about 1,000 convicts a year were being imported into Virginia and Maryland.

For Appeals to the King in Council from the Colonies see also Smith, Appeals ....

4) Secondary Sources:

Land, Aubrey C. The Dulanys of Maryland, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955, 1968, pp. 86-97.

Read and critique Edward C. Papenfuse, "The Legislative Response to a Costly War: Fiscal Policy and Factional Politics in Maryland, 1777-1789,"

Search http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov for information on the Van Staphorst claims. Note that some material on aomol.net is copyrighted and is only accessible via the user name aaco and the password aaco#

Search the pdfs of the readings cd and summarize what the leading historians of Maryland have to say about the Van Staphorst debt.

Submit a 1-2 page summary of your reading/findings by 6 p.m. Monday, September 20, uploading it to your web site (the passwords have not been changed. Use your last name and "open" at http://teachersmd.net/Leading Cases. To be on the safe side, also send a copy to ecpapenfuse@aol.com.

Hay, et. al. vs. Conner (1808) 2 H. & J. 347 Note that Blackboard.com is unreliable in passing user name (leading) and password (leading!)to my cold fusion web sites. If you have difficulty reaching this from Blackboard.com, simply go to http://msa.maryland.gov outside of Blackboard.com and use leading/leading!. From there use the search function for Hay and you will find this case in the series (Court of Appeals: Records and Briefs).

Place the case in the historical context of your reading of the texts and use the documentation to explain how it alters or enhances your understanding of the importance of the case and the sources you might use to write a paper about the case. Be sure to read all the supplied documents in the case. In addition, transcribe one page on line at http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/ecpdata/webroot/msaref04/msa-sc-5339-62-86/html/index.html, after requesting a user name and password to transcribe. Be sure to include in your request the page you are choosing to transcribe (it must be a full page of manuscript text).

In preparing your analysis of the case, indicate what sources your think you might need in order to fully document and understand the history/historical importance of the case. What sources are available/should be available on http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov to assist you? (For some references in aomol.net a user name (aaco) and a password (aaco#) are necessary).

Submit a 1-2 page summary of your reading/findings by 6 p.m. Monday, September 27, uploading it to your web site (the passwords have not been changed). Use your last name and "open" at http://teachersmd.net, hyperlink to Leading Cases. To be on the safe side, also send a copy to ecpapenfuse@aol.com. Please note you must access this site outside blackboard.com. Blackboard does not allow you to use a user name and password from here.