"Cassa"
On August 7, 1852, Cassa, a forty-four year old "yellow woman," enslaved by Benjamin Pendleton of Hagerstown, ran.  She did so, it seems with her entire family -- 14 in all -- ranging from Peter (likely her husband), age 48, to several infants and toddlers.  Pendleton offered a reward of $100 per head for the safe return of his property.
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"John"
John, a Kent Island slave, came to East Baltimore with his owner in January 1849.  Though it was assumed by his owner that  John knew no one in the city, he nonetheless flew with ten days of his arrival there. 
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Margaret Morgan
In 1832, Margaret Morgan fled from her Harford County owner to York Pennsylvania.  She lived there until being reclaimed by Edward Prigg, an agent of her owner.  She and the child she bore after arriving in Pennsylvania, were taken to Harford County.  Since Pennsylvania had abolished slavery and had enacted laws against kidnapping and transporting blacks, even suspected slaves, the legality of Priggs actions became the subject of litigation, ultimately decided in the U.S. Supreme Court in Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842) 

Milly Tyler
Milly Tyler, an 18 year old enslaved by R.H. Stuart of Prince George's County, fled in July  1851.  Miss Tyler's father and many other relatives were free blacks believed to be living in Washington, DC.  It was suspected she fled there.
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John Kemp
John Kemp was charged with enticing, persuading and assisting slaves to run away.  He fled to the District of Columbia and was requisitioned along with 5 other free blacks on January 5, 1854 and then again by himself by Governor on May 6, 1864.  There was no record of him in the Penitentiary. He was most likely never caught by the authorities.

Phoebe Myers
On December 5, 1855 Phoebe Myers, a free African American woman in Queen Anne's County, was found guilty on seven indictments of harboring the runaway slaves.  A spinner by trade, the brown complexioned, who stood five feet, six inches tall was illiterate.  A church-goer who had never been "bound out," she is believed to have been the mother or guardian of a young girl, Ellenora,  and likely a widow or married to an enslaved man.  She was convicted for her role in the attempted escape of two slave families, the Johnsons and the Tildens.  The Johnsons, Lucy, William, and Maria were the human chattel property of Richard Bennett Carmichael of the Corsica District, Queen Anne's County.  Also belonging to Carmichael and fleeing with the Johnsons were Robert, Charles, and Hester Tilden, and Hester's infant child.  

Phoebe Myers was sentenced to six years and six months on the first charge and six years for each of the other charges -- 42 yrs., 6 mos. (1855 - 1898) in all.  However, appeals were made to Maryland Governor Thomas Watkins Ligon on Phoebe Myers' behalf by numerous influencial citizens, including Richard Bennett Carmichael, owner of the runaway slaves [Biography - MSA SC 3525 1934], Clinton Cook, a member of the State Senate, Philemon B. Hooper, former member of the House of Delegates, Ezekiel Forman Chambers, former member of the Maryland State Senate and the U.S. Senate, Thomas James Keating, future member of the General
Assembly 1878, and John Mitchell Brown, future Chief Judge of the Court of appeals 1893.  In response to this outpouring of support, on May 6, 1856 after little more than six-months served, Phoebe Myers was pardoned.  

See also MSA Biographical Series Entry for "Phoebe Myers" 

Henry Norton
Henry Norton slave of Thomas Brown of Prince George's Co. was charged along with John Kemp and 4 other free blacks for enticing, persuading and assisting slaves to run away. He also fled to the District of Columbia and was requisitioned along with the others on January 5, 1864 and again by himself on May 6, 1864.  There was no record of him in the Penitentiary. He too was most likely never caught by the authorities.

Benjamin Thomas
Benjamin Thomas was convicted and pardoned for running away and assisting other slaves in running away on October 27, 1848.  Thomas was a slave owned by William Henry Golt. Golt did not want Thomas to be prosecuted; instead he wanted to sell him away out of state. Therefore, he was recommended by judge P.B. Hopper for clemency in order to be sold out of state.

Six Negroes
William Brown, Lethe Brown, John Kemp, William Brown, William Lee and Henry Norton were all charged with enticing slaves to escape and stealing mules. They all escaped to the District of Columbia and were requisitioned by the Governor on January 5, 1864.William Lee's owner was Charles E. Eversfield of Prince George's Co. and the second William Brown's owner was John E. Bowie of Prince George's Co.

In Baltimore City Court during the September Term, 1848, the State of Maryland vs Ann Matthews, she was convicted of enticing "Margaret," the slave of Washington Rider, to run away.  Yet, shortly after her conviction, a movement to gain her pardon from Maryland Governor Phillip Francis Thomas, spearheaded by noneother than the 12 members of the jury that had just convicted her.  Conceding that, in actuallity, Rider's slave did not run away, and that Matthews was not an abolitionist, "[n]or in any way hostile to the Institution of Slavery," the nonetheless convicted Matthews, turning to the Governor for mercy after the fact.  "We know of no case which appeals more forcibly to the sympathies of every feeling and humane heart," they argued.  Another petition signed by  sixteen of Ann’s fellow citizens requested a pardon, “by every consideration of humanity and of public justice.”  Still another -- signed by fifty-nine citizens -- also called for a pardon.  

Almost simultaneously, a counter-movement materialized to see her sentence served out.  In October 1848, Washington Rider, the slave Margaret's owner, wrote Governor Thomas, "this Ann Matthews stands noted in her neighborhood as one of the very worst characters and is a terror to her neighbors — her conviction has we feel assured given satisfaction to those who know her best." Twenty-eight other citizens signed Rider's petition.  In addition, a letter from Levin W. Tall to the Governor described Ann Matthews’ character as, “of the worst kind as she is a perfect pest to the community at large.”  In the end, Ann Hatzell Matthews received a pardon.  It was conditional, however, on her "keeping the peace for 12 months and giving security thereto.”  
The case of Ann Matthews is indicative of two [phenomena] associated with reseaching people who intentionally left few tracks. Ann Matthews was either a careful, calculating conductor on the UGRR in Maryland, or an innoccent bystander swept up in the hysteria caused by masters attempting to control and contain their slave property.  Which she was, we will likely never know with certainty. 

See also MSA Biographical Series Entry for "Ann Matthews" 
               
Sarah McMahon
Sarah McMahon was charged with harboring, detaining and concealing Rose, the slave of Judge Peter W. Crain on December 28, 1857. Peter W. Crain was the original judge appointed to the case but stepped down in view of his connection with the case. Judge Robert Ford heard the case. She was pardoned on December 22, 1860. Judge Peter W. Crain signed her pardon papers.

John Shaw
John Shaw was accused along with Zachariah Shaw for persuading the slave Charles of James S. Davis Esquire to run away.  John was granted a pardon when he testified on the state's behalf in a case against John Morgan.  The grounds of the pardon were that John Shaw would leave the state of Maryland within 6 months and never return.  His case went to trial October, 1855.

Zachariah Shaw
Zachariah Shaw was sentenced on March 8, 1855 for 6yrs and 2 months for inducing and persuading Charles, a slave of James S. Davis Esquire to run away.  Shaw was convicted in Frederick Co. and pardoned on March 17, 1857 by Governor Thomas Watkins Ligon on the grounds of a letter stating Shaw would leave the state if released. Shaw was born in Virginia.

James E. Work
James E. Work was indicted for enticing, persuading and assisting slaves to runaway in Talbot and Queen Anne's  counties. He was found guilty only for assisting slaves Dick and Nelly Simmonds of owner Margaret Goldsborough and slave Henry Murray of Maria Rodgers in running away. He was sentenced to confinement in the Penitentiary until June 22, 1864.  Work's brother-in-law requested a pardon on the grounds that Work did not know the men he assisted were slaves.  He claims Work thought the men were free blacks. However, no pardon record can be found.
 

Joseph Boley
Joseph Boley was a free Black man sentenced in Anne Arundel county on November 10, 1863 to two 6 year terms in the Maryland Penitentiary for enticing and persuading his wife, Elizabeth Boley, as well  as Mary Ann Boley, Nancy Ann Boley, Susannah Boley and Marlena Boley, (all slaves of Joseph Benson), to runaway.  In 1860, Joseph Boley is actually listed in the census as a free man living with Joseph Benson, the owner of the Boley family slaves (the very slaves whom Joseph Boley later tried to help escape).  In the Anne Arundel County Slave Statistics of 1864, all of the Boley slaves listed under Joseph Benson are listed as slaves “for life”. Joseph Boley was pardoned July 29, 1865 by A.W. Bradford.

Daniel Brown
Daniel Brown was convicted on or around April 22, 1864 in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court of enticing a slave to run away.  He was sentenced to be sold for the term of 3 years within the state.  He was consequently sold to the purchaser Edwin W. Duvall, but ran away from him well before the 3 year term was completed.  Governor A.W. Bradford put a requisition out for him on January 24, 1865.

Henry Smith
Henry Smith, a free Negro, was charged on the oath of slave owner Nicholas M. Bosley of Baltimore City, with the crime of enticing and persuading his slaves Margaret Beal and Ellen Taylor to run away.  Smith reportedly fled the state of Maryland and took refuge in Washington, D.C.  Governor A.W. Bradford put a requisition out for him on March 21, 1863, but there was never a record of him found in the Maryland Penitentiary.
 

William Hill
On or around December 25, 1861, William Hill persuaded George Hackett and John Wesley Hughes, ages 13 & 11, the slaves of Polish G. Mills and Prichett Meredith, to run away using a fabricated freedom record, found in the Court Papers.  One of the runaways, George Hackett, had a brother who learned how to write, from William Hill.  Hill was convicted in Dorchester County Circuit Court on May 19, 1862 on 2 indictments, sentenced to serve in Maryland Penitentiary until May 14, 1877.  He was released on February 9, 1865 after being pardoned on February 7, 1865 by A.W. Bradford.

Mary Ann Coates
Mary Ann Coates was convicted in Baltimore County Circuit Court May 1862 of enticing slaves to run away.  She was age 58 when she was sentenced to serve 6 years in the Maryland Penitentiary.  The Governor requested the Board of the Maryland Penitentiary to furnish a list of prisoners who deserve to have his consideration for a pardon, and Mary Ann Coates was among those on the list in the letter that was sent back to the Governor on Dec 29, 1863.  Governor A.W. Bradford pardoned Mary Ann Coates on May 30, 1865.

Hugh Hazlett
Irish born lawyer Hugh Hazlett helped a group of slaves run away on or about July 24, 1858.  The slave owners were Jane Caton, Reuben E. Phillips, Mrs. Anne M. Dixon, and Samuel Hooper.  The Dorcester County Court decision was handed down on November 12, 1858, convicting him 7 indictments in DOCC Nov Term 1858 for enticing, persuading, assisting, and harboring slaves in a attempt to have them run away from their masters.  Hazlett was sentenced to MD Penitentiary for 44 years 6 months and 9 days, but pardoned on December 19, 1864 by Governor A.W. Bradford.