Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Wesley Broadway (b. circa 1844-1847 - d. 1931)
MSA SC 3520-443
USCT Soldier, Kent County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources:

ADJUTANT GENERAL, (Muster Rolls), 1863-1866, U.S. Colored Troops, [MSA S936-47]. Wesley Broadway, Company A., 7th Regiment, Page 59, Line 24.

COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY (Bounty Rolls), 1864-1880, Volunteers, Wesley Broadway, Reel: SR 4438, [MSA SM183-1] Page 148.

COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY (Bounty Rolls), 1864-1868, Slaves and owners, by USCT Regiment, Comptroller’s Index to MSA S629-1, MdHR3814.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS (Death Record, Counties) Kent County, Dates: 1910-1951, [S1179]. Wesley Broadway, March 17, 1931, Certificate Number 03314.

KENT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Charter Record) 1869-1984. Articles of Incorporation of Charles Sumner Post No. 25 Grand Army of the Republic. MSA CM648. Maryland State Archives, Annapolis.

Kent County Circuit Court (Depositions), June 16, 1950, “Sumner Beneficial Society,” Henrietta Landing, Adella Jones, Annie Hynson, and Ellen Gilben, Files courtesy of the Kent County Arts Council.

Kent County Circuit Court (Land Records) Perry H. Landen, 1895, SGF Liber 3, Folio 189, Kent County Courthouse, accessed at Kent County Courthouse.

Kent County Circuit Court (Land Records) Peter G. Miller and wife to Perry H. Landen et al. Trustees, 1900, JTD Liber 3, Folio 216, accessed at Kent County Courthouse.

Kent County Circuit Court (Marriage Record). John Berryman marrying Mary Tilghman. Nov. 29. 1900. SFG Liber 1 page 156, MSA CM 664-3, CR 6952-2.

Kent County Circuit Court (Marriage Record), 1895-1915, Wesley Broadway to Mary Berryman, MSA CM 664-3, SGF Liber 1, Folio 115.

Kent County Register of Wills (Releases and Receipts) James A. Pearce to Wesley Broadway, 1921-1925, Liber RRH, Folio 175, accessed at the Kent County Courthouse.

Kent County Register of Wills (Wills) James A. Pearce, 1922, RRH, Liber 1. Folio 151, accessed at Kent County Courthouse.

Queen Anne’s County Register of Wills (Probate Records), William Emory, 1860, Estate A571, Account of Sales.

Queen Anne’s County Register of Wills (Probate Records), William Emory, 1860, Estate A571, Last Will and Testament.

Queen Anne’s County Register of Wills (Probate Records), William Emory, 1860, Estate A571, Inventory of Chattels.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (U.S. Colored Troops Pension File Collection) [MSA SC 4126] Wesley Broadway, Box 29, Folder 557.
 Newspapers and Journals -

“A Daring Holdup: An Incident of a Decoration Day Parade,” The Chestertown Transcript, June 1, 1909.

Blassingame, John W.  "The Recruitment of Negro Troops in Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 58, No. 1 (March 1963), pp. 20-29.

“Boys in Blue,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 5, 1899, p.7. America’s Historic Newspapers Database.

Cannon, M. Hamlin. The United States Christian Commission, The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 38 (1), 1951: 61-80.

“Colored Troops in Maryland,” Alexandria Gazette, November 2, 1863, p.1.

“Col. William Paca,” The Kent News, September 5, 1863, p.2 M-1621, Miller Library Microfilm.

“Decoration Day,” The Kent County News, Kent County News, June 2, 1883.

“Enlistment of Slaves in Maryland,” The Kent News, September 19, 1863, p.2, M-1621, Miller Library Microfilm.

The Kent News, May 16, 1846. M-2349, Miller Library Microfilm.

“Legislative,” Easton Gazette, Easton, MD: January 16, 1864, p. 2.

“Markets,” The Kent News, May 2, 1846, p.2., M-2349, Miller Library Microfilm.

“Murder of a Lieutenant by a Slaveholder,” Cleveland Morning Leader, October 22, 1863, p.3.

“Negroes Wanted,” The Kent News, May 16, 1846, p.4. M-2349, Miller Library Microfilm.

“Slave Enlistments in Maryland: Letter from Gen. Birney,” Annapolis Gazette, January 19, 1864, 2.

“To Farmers,” The Kent News, May 2, 1846, p.3, M-2349, Miller Library Microfilm.

“The Corn Crop,” The Kent News, September 5, 1863, p.2, M-1621, Miller Library Microfilm.

“Took an Oath,” The Kent News, September 19, 1863, p.2,. M-1621, Miller Library Microfilm.

“The Boys in Blue Answer Role Call in Mighty Force: Grand Army Men from the Atlantic to the Pacific Meet Again to Revive Old Comradeship.” in the Philidelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia. September 5, 1899. in the America’s Historical Newspapers database.

“Wesley Broadway,” The Enterprise, March 18, 1931, p.1.  M11362, Miller Library.


Books - 

Califf, Joseph Mark. Record of the Services of the Seventh Regiment, U. S. Colored Troops. Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries, 1971.

Clay, Elizabeth. “Constructing a Community: The African American Community in Kent County, Maryland from Reconstruction to the Present.” Senior Thesis, Washington College, 2008.

Fields, Barbara Jeanne. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Foster, Charles A. "History of the G.A.R., Department of Delaware, with Special Mention of the Department of Maryland, 1881 to 1893." Wilmington, Del, 1893.

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Series II The Black Military Experience. Edited by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Fuke, Richard Paul. Imperfect Equality: African Americans and the confine of white racial attitudes in post-emancipation Maryland. New York: Fordham University Press, 1999.

Gannon, Barbara. notes on Roster of the G.A.R., Department of Maryland, 1882-1929. Library of Congress. compiled 2000. Kent County Arts Council.

Holland, Frederic May. Frederick Douglass: The Colored Orator, (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1891), p.301.

J.G Strong’s Map of Queen Anne’s County, 1866, MSA SC 5080-1, Courtesy of the Queen Anne’s County Historical Society, at the Maryland State Archives.

Robertson, William Glenn. “From the Crater to New Market Heights: A Tale of Two Divisions,” in Black Soldiers in Blue: African American Troops in the Civil War Era, edited by John David Smith. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Schaffer, Donald R. After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2004.

“Seventh Regiment Infantry, U.S. Colored Troops, Maryland Volunteers,” History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-1866, Vol.2, Vol.366.

Internet Sources -

“An Unfortunate Occurrence in General Grant’s Army.” Daily Ohio Statesman, September 7, 1864, p.1, reported from the Cor. Phila. Press, August 1864, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028645/1864-09-07/ed-1/seq-1/>.

Butler, Benjamin F. “To Hon. Robert F. Ould, Commissioner of Exchange, Richmond, VA.” in the Daily National Republican. Washington, D. C. October 15, 1864. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86053570/1864-10-15/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1864&index=3&rows=20&words=Fort+Gilmer&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1864&proxtext=Fort+Gilmer&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1>.

“Capt. Joseph Prince with officers, Camp Stanton, Feb. 28, 1864.” In “Benedict, Maryland, Cultural Resource Survey and Context Study,” prepared by Ralph E. Eshelman, Donald G. Shomette, and G. Howard Post, July 2009, http://www.charlescounty.org/webdocs/pgm/publications/planning/benedict%20study.pdf

“Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops, 2nd Through 7th Colored: 7th US Colored Infantry, Bowz-Bun: Broadway, Wesley,” from http://www.fold3.com/image/#140208389, 3. Ancestry.com.

“Deep Bottom, Henrico, Virginia,” Google Earth.

Eleventh Census of the United States: Special Schedule. Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc. Chestertown, Kent, Maryland. 1890. by W. Thomas Gosler. from ancestry.com.

“From Fortress Monroe, “The evening telegraph. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 05 Nov. 1866. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025925/1866-11-05/ed-1/seq-1/>

“John Wesley Broadway,” United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards. Image Number 01211. Familysearch.org.

Miller, Ben. “Onward Christian Soldiers.” New York Times. December 22, 2011. accessed May 8, 2013. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/onward-christian-soldiers/.

“Murder of a Lieutenant by a Slaveholder.” in the Cleveland Morning Leader. Cleveland. October 22, 1863. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.                                    <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83035143/1863-10-22/ed-1/seq-3/>.

“Second Dispatch.” in the Cleveland Morning Leader. Cleveland, Ohio. August 18, 1864. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83035143/1864-08-18/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1864&index=0&rows=20&words=Bottom+Deep&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1864&proxtext=%22Deep+Bottom%22&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1>.

“Seventh Regiment Infantry, U. S. C. T., MD. VOL.—Company A. 161.” from Archives of Maryland Online. the History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-6, Volume 2. aomol.net/0000001/000366/html/am266—161.html. vol 366 page 161.

Tenth Census of the United States: 1880. Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland. by Henry M. Thomas.

“The Conscription of the Slaves—The Rebel Official Organ Strongly in Favor of It.” in The Nashville Daily Union. Nashville. November 9, 1864. Chronicling America: America’s Historical Newspapers. Library of Congress.
<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025718/1864-11-09/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1864&index=0&rows=20&words=Fort+Gilmer&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1864&proxtext=fort+gilmer&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1>.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record), Stewart R. Emory, 1850, Queen Anne’s, District 3, p.26. Ancestry.com.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record), 1870, Wesley Broadway, Chestertown 4th Election District, Kent County, Maryland, p. 33. Ancestry.com.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record), Twelfth Census of the United States: Schedule No. 1—Population, 1900, Chestertown, Kent, Maryland, by Fred S. Russell, Wesley Broadway, p. 18. Ancestry.com.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record), Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910 Population, Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of the Census, Chestertown, Kent, Maryland, by Foster Cannan, Wesley Broadway, p.17. Ancestry.com.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Records), James A. Pearce, 1920, Chestertown, District 65, p.1, Ancestry.com.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Records), Wesley Broadway, 1920, Chestertown, District 66, p.18, Ancestry.com.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record), Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, Population Schedule, Department of Commerce—Bureau of the Census, Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, by John C. Davis, Wesley Broadway, p.6, Ancestry.com.

U.S. Census Bureau (Slave Schedules), Stewart R. Emory, 1850, Queen Anne’s, District 6, p.9. Ancestry.com.

U.S. Census Bureau (Slave Schedules), Stewart R. Emory, 1860, Queen Anne’s, District 3, p.7, Ancestry.com.

U.S. Census Bureau (Slave Schedules), William Emory’s heirs, 1860, Queen Anne’s, District 3, p.7, Ancestry.com.

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