The work at hand marks the twenty-eighth volume in this continuing series. Volume XXVIII consists of testamentary abstracts for the balance of 1751-52 and part of 1755. (Researchers will find the years 1750-53 covered in Volumes XXVI and XXVII.) In all, this book refers to an additional 7,000 colonial inhabitants of the Province of Maryland. For the most part, the transcriptions state the names of the principals (testators, heirs, guardians, witnesses, administrators, and so forth), as well as details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers, and more.