Roger Taney (Dickinson Chronicles)

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John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Roger Brooke Taney,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/t/ed_taneyR.htm.
Roger Brooke Taney was born March 17, 1777 on the Taney Plantation along the Patuxent River, in Maryland's Calvert County. The Taney family had come to the colony as indentured servants in the mid-seventeenth century but, after serving out their term of servitude, they later established themselves as prosperous tobacco farmers in the rich agrarian economy of southern Maryland. Taney grew up as a Maryland Roman Catholic with rural gentry privilege, was educated privately and then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1792.

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