William Paca, Governor of Maryland and Signor of the Declaration of Independence: A Pair of George III Silver Canns, Thomas Whipham & Charles Wright, London, 1763

William Paca (1740–1899), Maryland, to his son

John Philemon Paca (1771–1840), Maryland, to his daughter

Anna Maria Chew Paca (C. 1810–1841), Maryland, to her son

John Philemon Chew Davidson (1836–1897), Maryland, to his daughter

Anna Lolita Davidson (1864–1920), Maryland, to her son

James P. Davidson (1893–C. 1930, Maryland, to his stepmother

Stepmother (?–1960), Maryland, to James P. Davidson's second cousin

Isabel Emory Davidson (1895–1979), Maryland, to her daughter

Mary Gamble (1931–2022),

By descent to present owner

The monogram is for William Paca (1740–1799) and his wife Mary Lloyd Chew Paca (1736-1774). William was one of the Founding Fathers, a Maryland delegate at the First and Second Continental Congresses, and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. Paca, an attorney by training, served as the third Governor of Maryland from 1782–1785 and as a Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland from 1790–1799.

Mary Lloyd Chew Paca was from one of the most prominent families in colonial Maryland. Her mother, Henrietta Maria Lloyd Chew, was the granddaughter of Colonel Philemon Lloyd, owner of Wye Island in Queen Anne's County. Her father Samuel Chew died when Mary was two years old, and her mother remarried Daniel Dulany, Sr., a politician, lawyer, and land developer. When Mary's brother, Philemon Lloyd Chew, died childless in 1770, he left the Wye Island estate to her and her sister Margaret Chew Bordley. The Pacas and the Bordleys divided the island, and the Pacas used their half as a tobacco plantation that required ninety-two slaves to maintain. On January 15, 1774, Mary Paca died after giving birth to her third child. Her untimely death meant she did not live to see her husband achieve the accomplishments for which he is best known- signing the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and serving as the Governor of Maryland.

The Pacas lived in a five-part Georgian mansion on Prince George Street in Annapolis, that is now a National Historic Landmark and open to the public. The house was built between 1763 and 1765, and its architecture was largely designed by Paca himself. Mary oversaw the extensive two-acre walled gardens which were renowned for their beauty.