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Polly Batchelder collection

2 cartons, 1 overize box (3.5 linear feet)

(1889 – 2001)

bulk 1982-2001

Edward H. Nabb Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury, University, Salisbury, Maryland

Identifier 1990.044
Creator(s) Batchelder, Polly
Acquisition

The Polly Batchelder donated her genealogical research, Alberta Smith’s mementos, Maryland Eastern Shore business and personal ledgers, and Maryland’s 1864 revised State Constitution to the Nabb Research Center, 1990.
Language(s) English
Use Records are open for research. Copyright, including literary rights, belongs to the author(s) or their legal heirs. Permission to publish or reproduce must be obtained from the Nabb Research Center which extends beyond "fair use."
Preferred Citation "Item, collection title and identifier, box # and folder # (if applicable), Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland."
Attribution Finding aid written by Joel Henry, January 2016.
Related Materials None
Separated Materials

Library materials have been cataloged and housed with the Nabb Research Center’s non-circulating Rare Book collection.
Abstract

Polly Batchelder’s collection is a comprehensive documentation of genealogical research on Old Somerset County, Maryland via land and parish records, as well as a series of obituaries from the Marylander and Herald newspaper and city of Salisbury tax assessment ledgers. Included in the collection are the papers of Alberta Smith; mementos found by Polly and her son Geoffrey at the abandoned Smith house on West Sharpless road in Oriole, Somerset County, Maryland. Materials include photograph and autograph albums and correspondence. The materials date from 1889-2001 with the bulk of the material dates from 1982-2001.

Biographical History

Pauline “Polly” Manning Batchelder (b. 1922) was a dedicated volunteer of the Edward H. Nabb Research Center in the 1990s and 2000s.  She devoted much of her work to Delmarva Peninsula genealogical research completed and edited: A Somerset Sampler: Families of Old Somerset County, Maryland 1700-1776 and assisted in the editing of The Long Family of Maryland.

N. Alberta Smith was born in the early 20th century and departed to Virginia and North Carolina to pursue a nursing career in 1929.  She died in 1986 in her home at Oriole, Somerset County, Maryland. 

 

Scope and Content Note

Series I: Genealogical Research

Series II: Marylander and Herald Obituaries

Series III: Alberta Smith papers

Series IV: Ledgers

Arrangement Statement

The Polly Batchelder collection has been arranged into four series: GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH, MARYLANDER AND HERALD OBITUARIES, ALBERTA SMITH PAPERS, and LEDGERS. The obituaries have been arranged chronologically.

Folders are listed by their location in each box; any given subject may be dispersed throughout the entirety of the collection.

Subject Terms

  • Topical Terms
    • Marvel Family
    • Genealogy
  • Corporate Names
    • Marylander and Herald Newspaper
  • Personal Names
    • Batchelder, Pauline "Polly" (1922- )
    • Smith, N. Alberta ( )
    • Spohn, Pansy
  • Location Terms
    • Somerset County (Md.)

Inventory List

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Series I: Genealogical Research

Box 1

1.      Notes, Somerset County Families History Project Index, 1990 May

2.      Report, Marvel family on the Eastern Shore: A Documented Chronology, 1992

3.      Genealogical Notes, Some Families of Old Somerset County: Marvel, Huggins, Atkinson, Dryden, Long, Costen, Dickerson, Riggin, Baker, Campbell, 1990

4.      Genealogical Notes, Some Families of Old Somerset County: Cropper, Driskill, Fassitt, Rhodes, Hammond, Morris, Tingle, Atkins, Bailey, Bradley, Chaille, Collins, Mills, Conner, Outten, Parsons, 1990

5.      Genealogical Notes, Some Families of Old Somerset County: Parsons, Taylor, Watson, Dennis, Robinson, Cottman, Surnam, Austin, Furnis, Miller, 1990

Series II: Marylander and Herald Obituaries

6.      1982 August-December

7.      1983 January-December

8.      1984 January-December

9.      1985 January-December

10.  1986 January-December

11.  1987 January-December

12.  1988 January-December

13.  1989 January-December

14.  1990 January-December

15.  1991 January-December

16.  1992 January-December

17.  1993 January-December

18.  1994 January-December

19.  1995 January-December

20.  1996 January-December

21.  1997 January-December

22.  1998 January-December

23.  1999 January-December

24.  2000 January-December

25.  2001 January-March

Series III: Alberta Smith papers

26.  Memoir and Home in Oriole, Somerset County, Md. undated

27.  Photograph Album, 1930-1963

28.  Photograph Album, 1916

29.  Correspondence, From Family and Friends to Maud Smith, 1889-1895

30.  Autograph Book, 1935-1937

31.  Autograph Book, 1929-1953

 

Series IV: Ledgers

Box 2

1. Salisbury Personal Ledger, Taxable Assessment records, 1892-1893

2. Ledgers, Md Eastern shore businesses, 1913-1923

3. Salisbury Business Ledger, 1940 October 1- 1941 February 28

4. Salisbury Business Ledger, 1941 March 3- 1941 August 29

 

Box 3

1. Salisbury Tax Payer Registry, 1934-1935

 

Library Materials

1.      Proceedings of the State Convention of Maryland to Frame a New Constitution, 1864

 

Artifacts

See Nabb Center Staff

Attachments

None