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THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND
(Final Report) 1999/12/31
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Adams-Butler 11/7/99 10:29 PM ii. a daughter, born about 1707. Another unrelated Burke family in Maryland was i. John, born about 1686, a "Mollatto" servant of Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkins who was 21 years old on 10 June 1707 when the Charles County Court ordered that he be set free. Mary Elliott, wife of William Elliott, testified that he had been sold to Henry Hawkins by her former husband Henry Brawner [Court Record 1704-10, 326]. Their descendants may have been i. Henry, head of a Queen Anne's County, Maryland household of 1 "other free" in 1790 [MD:102]. ii. Charles, head of a Baltimore City household of 4 "other free" in 1800 [MD:148J. BURTON FAMILY 1. Luke Burton, born say 1745, and his wife, Patience, registered the 10 May 1769 birth of their "mulatto" son, James, at St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church, Indian River Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware [Wright, Vital Records of Kent and Sussex Counties, 98]. They were the parents of i. James, born 10 May 1769. ii. ?Joseph, head of a New Castle County, Delaware household of 8 "other free" in 1800 [DE:161]. iii. ?Peter, head of a Lewis and Rehoboth Hundred, Sussex County household of 6 "other free" in 1800 [DE:414]. iv. ?William, "Coloured" head of a New Castle County household of 7 "other free" in 1810 [DE:231]. http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Adams-Butler.htm Page 22 of 38