But not all the fine houses were in Virginia. Maryland, New Jersey, the Carolinas, Delaware, Kentucky, and Georgia had their wealthy families as, of course, had the more northern states. Among the interesting plates of Maryland are those of John Leeds Bozman, the historian; the Hon. William Carmichael, who was born in the state, and who was a delegate to Congress, 1778-1780; Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, who signed the Declaration of Independence in such a manner as to leave no doubt of his identity;



Samuel Chase, another signer of that immortal document; General Forman, whose estate "Rose Hill" was so delightful a spot; and Anthony Stewart, of Annapolis, whose plate was one of the handsomest of any used at that time. Others there were of the families of Calvert, Chalmers, Duvall, Kerr, McTavish, Maxcy, and Sprigg, who used book-plates which are to-day prized by the collector.
Over in Delaware the plates of the Bayards and the Fishers were good of their kind, and are now among the desiderata. In New Jersey was that intrepid soldier, Major Joseph Bloomfield, who fought in the war of the Revolution and was Governor of his state, an officer in the War of 1812, and a member of Congress after that. David Brearly was another soldier of the Revolution from this state, and he used a plate which is thought to have been engraved by Vallance, an engraver who was associated with Thackara, in making plates for Dobson's Encyclopedia. Of others who in this state used plates which are prized to-dav, should be mentioned William Edgar, Peter Kemble, Charles Read, Richard Stockton, signer of the Declaration, Lieutenant Trenchard of the navy, and the Hon. Joshua Maddox Wallace of Burlington.
In North Carolina the plates of Isaac Edwards, William Hooper, signer of the Declaration, Colonel Innes, James Iredell, the jurist, and the plate of the University of North Carolina, are among the few which have been discovered to swell the collector's list.
The South Carolina list is much longer, and includes such names as Richard Beresford; Jacob Drayton ; John Walters Gibbs; Thomas Hall, first postmaster under Washington, in Charleston ; Isaac Hayne, the patriot, who was hanged by the British in the same city in 1781 ; Thomas Hayward, a signer of the Declaration; Alexander Inglis, who employed a poor engraver and one who little understood heraldry ; Robert Johnston of Turkey Island; Peter Manigault, who studied law at the Inner Temple, and whose very beautiful book-plate was engraved in London in the year 1754; John Izard Middleton, second son of Arthur Middleton, the signer of the Declaration, born at Middleton-Place-on-the-Ashley, and who was himself an author of no mean abilities, and who spent the last twenty-five years of his life in Paris, where he was an intimate friend of Mesdames De Stael and Recamier; Thomas Pownall, who was Governor not only of this state, but also and previously of New Jersey and Massachusetts, and who, after returning to England, entered Parliament; Thomas Shubrick, Colonel in the Revolutionary War; Thomas Waties, an eminent judge; and Dr. J. B. Whitridge, whose emblem of Hope makes a very pretty plate, as well as an appropriate one, for a physician.
An interesting plate from Georgia is that of James Wright, Esq., the last Royal Governor of the colony, he who was such an able executive, but whose loyalty to the king cost him his liberty for a time, and finally the confiscation of his estates.


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