The Cheston-Galloway Collection

MSA SC 5991

Dates

1681-1920

Medium

original

Restrictions

RESTRICTED: Primary access to Series 1 through microfilm images, MSA SC 3541. Contact Department of Special Collections for access.

Storage

00/26/08/shelves 6-8; 00/26/08/87; 00/20/04/shelf 8; 33/02/04/80
Location updated 2014/02/21: 00/09/08/50 [5991-1-4/6]; 00/09/09/50 [5991-1-8]

Description

Original correspondence of the Cheston-Galloway families, Anne Arundel County, including the eighteenth-century correspondence of Samuel Galloway and James Cheston; nineteenth-century correspondence of Anne Cheston Morris and Francina Augustina Cheston; and scrapbooks of Mary Morris Murray and a Murray family history scrapbook.

Series 1 containers: 27 clamshell boxes, 4 oversize, flat boxes, and 1 oversized bound volume.
Series 2 includes photographs and ephemera on deposit from the family, relating mostly to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, pertaining to the travels and life of Dr. Caspar Morris.

History

For microfilm images created of the collection, see MSA SC 3541.

An additional microfilm collection pertaining to the Cheston Galloway families may be found at MSA SC 633

Collection Inventory

Series 1: Cheston-Galloway Papers
Series 2: Items on Deposit
Series 3: Additional Gifts

Microfilm Inventory