[2] After graduating from St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Brantz Mayer sailed for the East, visiting Java, Sumatra, and China, and returned in 1828.
[3] He practiced law from 1832 until 1841, when he was appointed secretary of legation to Mexico, where he remained a year, and on his return edited for a short time the Baltimore American newspaper.
[3] When he returned home after his 1843 visit, he published his first work, Mexico as it Was, and as it Is (Philadelphia, 1844), which was accused of unfairness and gave rise to animated controversy.
[1] He contributed to the Maryland Historical Society the Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton during his Mission to Canada, and Tah-gah-jute, or Logan and Captain Michael Cresap.
[3] His grandniece, Mary van Kleeck, was a social worker and radical labor activist.