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George Horner (b. circa 1791 - d.?)
MSA SC 5496-001609
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, Maryland, 1814

Biography:

George Horner fled his enslavement on Swan Point around September 16, 1814. Swan Point was the farm of Arthur T. Jones, who resided on his inherited farm in Queen Anne's County. Horner reached British ships on the Patuxent River, along with slaves Jacob Murray, Abraham Lyles, Elijah Lyles, Delilah Murray, Hannah Lyles, John Chambers and Polly Chambers. All eight slaves had fled from Swan Point.1

He served in the First Company of the Colonial Marines, along with Abraham Lyles. George settled in Trinidad following the war, on land that the British had given the black soldiers.2
 


Footnotes

1.     Claim of Arthur T. Jones, Case 731, Case Files, compiled ca. 1827 - ca. 1828, documenting the period ca. 1814 - ca. 1828, *ARC Identifier 1174160 / MLR Number PI 177 190,* National Archives, College Park.

2.     John McNish Weiss, The Merikens: Free Black American Settlers in Trinidad 1815-1816 (London, UK: McNish & Weiss, 2002) 26.
 

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