The Charles County, Maryland Families Project is geographical and ancestral projecdesigned to help those who have Charles County (and Southern Maryland) ancestry a place to discover others who are also researching families from this area. Formed in 1658 Charles County is an Original Maryland county. Maryland Counties adjacent to Charles County and those created out of Original Charles County are: Saint Mary's formed 1637-an original county Calvert formed 1654 Anne Arundel formed 1650-now next to Prince George's Calvert formed 1654 Prince George's formed 1695 from Charles and Calvert Montgomery formed 1776 from Frederick Howard formed 1851 from Anne Arundel and Baltimore Frederick formed 1748 from Prince George's Washington, DC formed from Prince George's Charles County lies on the northern banks of the Potomac River which is the border between Maryland and Virginia. Virginia counties adjacent Charles County, Maryland are/were: Loudon (1757 from Fairfax) Arlington (1847 from Fairfax) Fairfax (1742 from Prince William and Loudon) Prince William (1727 from King George and Stafford) Stafford (1664 from Westmoreland) King George (1720 from Richmond and Westmoreland) Westmoreland (1653 from Northumberland) Please email the administrator, Mic Barnette at mic@micbarnette.com with your Charles County Surnames so we can add them to the surname database Be sure "Join" our project from your personal page Also please visit our My Groups page and leave a post about your family