Bill Carroll
In February 1846 Bill Carroll fled from Baruch Mullikin's farm in Nottingham near Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County.  He was known have a wife on the Skinner Estate, also in Nottingham.  The forty-five year-old Carroll remained at large in the county for the better part three months, apparently, before crossing the Patuxent into Calvert County.

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Emanuel Gough 
Emanuel Gough  ran from  Thomas R. Early's farm in the Nottingham District on March 16, 1855.  Early had a good idea of were the young man was headed.  "I purchased him of Mrs. Sarah Harwood, Saratoga Street, Baltimore, and she has a brother of his living with her; and his mother (a free woman) also lives in Baltimore," the slave owner advertised. He added that Gough's "wife" was the slave property of John L. Dufief, a Darnestown, Montgomery County attorney.

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John Ferral 
John Ferral was suspected by his Beltsville owner, James R. Brent,  to be heading south, not north.  Ferral's father lived in Charles County and it was thought that the eighteen year-old boy, who fled on August 27, 1854, was running to him.

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Davy Jones 
Davy Jones was raised in Calvert County.  At some point he ended up the slave property of one Robert J. Young, in Nottingham, Prince George's County.  When Jones ran on March 13, 1855, Young suspected the forty year-old would seek family.  Jones's wife and children were held by a Mrs. Plummer near Fair Haven, Calvert County, and his father was held in Anne Arundel county, by the widow of the late James Kent 

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Mary
Forty year-old "Mary" fled with two other enslaved blacks, Lloyd Plathey and "John", from slaveholder Robert A. Clagett of Upper Marlboro in September 1851.  Mary, and perhaps her fellow fugitives as well, was believed to be moving east toward Bladensburg, on the Anacostia River.  Mary had once been held there, the property of George W. Bowie, and some of her relatives were still there.  Mary also may have run north, into the dense woods stretching from present-day Upper Marlboro along Church Road to Bowie known as "The Forest of Prince George's County."  In the "Forest" were held Mary's husband (by Samuel L. Brooke), and her father (by Dr. Benjamin Berry, "near the Brick Church")

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the Smith Family
Adam Smith, thirty, fled Isaac Scaggs's Beltsville plantation on August 22, 1857.  Smith's mother was held by a Mr. Hamelton, near Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and it was believed that he was headed for her.  However, two weeks later, on September 5, 1857, Adam Smith allegedly returned to Scaggs's Plantation, unbeknowst to the owner.  When he left again, this time Smith took his wife, Maria, and their four boys (Dall, Lem, Bill, and Ben) with him.

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Susan
Susan, twenty-one and "far gone in pregnancy" ran from George W. Suyler of Bladensburg on October 10, 1841.  At large for at least several months, she reportedly reached Baltimore City.  She had been held in Old Town, Baltimore, before being purchased by Suyler and removed to Southern Maryland.

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Susan, Jenny, and Mary Anne
On February 16, 1851 three women enslaved by George W. Graham fled his Upper Marlboro plantation.  Two of the women, Susan (23) and Jenny (15), were sisters.  Their father and aunt lived in Washington, D.C.  The two ran with a friend, Mary Anne, who also had relatives in Washington, D.C., and even some in New York City.  Whatever their destination, it was believed that they were headed to the safety of family

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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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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.

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.