18th Century Material Culture

Colonies to States
Maryland

Government

Barrister Charles Carroll

Continental Congress - Signer of the Declaration of Independence
by Charles Wilson Peale

Barrister Charles Carroll

Continental Congress - Signer of the Declaration of Independence
by Charles Wilson Peale

John Hanson of Maryland

9th President of the Continental Congress
November 5, 1781 - November 3, 1782

William Paca
Maryland Representative to the Continental Congress, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Governor of Maryland 1782
by Charles Wilson Peale

William Paca
Maryland Representative to the Continental Congress
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Governor of Maryland 1782

Margaret Tilghman Carroll (1743-1817)

by John Hesselius 1765

Margaret Tilghman Carroll (1743-1817) at the Garden Facade

by Charles Wilson Peale

Mount Clare, Baltimore Maryland

The Estate of Charles Carroll

Armed Forces

William Henry Bruce of the Maryland Line

by Charles Wilson Peale 1778
(The Society of the Cincinatti)

Captain John Gassaway of the 2nd Maryland Regiment

Captured at Camden on August 16, 1780
by Charles Wilson Peale c. 1779
(Smithsonian)

Brigadier General Mordecai Gist

The Baltimore Independent Co. 1774 / 5th Maryland Regiment
Commander of the Maryland Brigade

Brigadier General Mordecai Gist

The Baltimore Independent Co. 1774 / 5th Maryland Regiment
Commander of the Maryland Brigade

Mrs. Mordecai Gist 1774

Elizabeth McClure

General John Eager Howard

by Charles Wilson Peale 1782
(Independence National Historic Park)

Captain Thomas Lansdale of the 3rd Maryland Regiment

by Charles Wilson Peale c. 1781
(Private Collection - Frick Art Reference Library)

Member of the Maryland Convention of 1775 & Colonel of the Kent County Militia, Richard Lloyd
by Charles Wilson Peale 1775
(Christies)

Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Ramsey of the 3rd Maryland Regiment

by Charles Wilson Peale
(Independence National Historic Park)

Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Ramsey of the 3rd Maryland Regiment

by Charles Wilson Peale
(Private Collection - Frick Art Reference Library)

Major Jonathan Sellman of the Maryland Line

by Charles Wilson Peale c. 1776
(Private Collection)

Major General William Smallwood

by Charles Wilson Peale c. 1781 - 1782
(Independence National Historical Park - National Park Service)

Major General William Smallwood

by Charles Wilson Peale c. 1788
(Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Captain William Trueman Stoddert of the 5th Maryland Regiment

by Charles Wilson Peale
(Private Collection)

Captain William Trueman Stoddert of the 5th Maryland Regiment

by Charles Wilson Peale
(Private Collection)

Captain Richard Walters of the 3rd Maryland Regiment

by Charles Wilson Peale c. 1779
(Mead Art Museum, Amhurst College)

Brigadier General Otho Holland Williams

by Charles Wilson Peale

Brigadier General Otho Holland Williams

by Charles Wilson Peale 1782
(Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)

Brigadier General Otho Holland Williams

by Charles Wilson Peale 1784
(Independence National Historic Park)

An Unknown Officer of the Maryland Continental Line

by Charles Wilson Peale c. 1778
(Private Collection - Frick Art Reference Library)

Uniform of Tench Tighlman

(Maryland Historical Society)

Uniform of Tench Tighlman

(Maryland Historical Society)

Uniform of Tench Tighlman

(Maryland Historical Society)

Epaulettes of Tench Tighlman

(The Society of the Cincinatti)

Scottish Broadsword
Carried by Captain Nicholas Ruxton Moore of Maryland during the American War for Independence
(The Society of the Cincinatti)

Acknowledgements
The 18th Century Material Culture
Resource Center greatly acknowledges
our friend and colleague, Dr. Gregory
Urwin of Temple University for his
exemplary series Redcoat Images.
Having had the honor to work with
Dr. Urwin and personally contribute to
his series in the past, we are pleased to
showcase some of the American images
he has found in this slideshow. We are
also eternally grateful to our many other
friends and colleagues who have also
shared with us their images of the
soldier during the American War for
Independence over the years.

Acknowledgements
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