David Milburn (b. circa 1796 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-001672
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, St. Mary's County, Maryland
Biography:
Eighteen-year-old David Milburn, nicknamed Davy, was one of the slaves of Larine Dent, the widow of Hezekiah Dent.1 Four of Mrs. Dent's slaves escaped to British forces on June 1, 1814: James Milburn, Job Cole, William Peterson, and Henry Dent. At the time, David Milburn was working on the farm of Bennett Hammett, who was hiring out Milburn's labor. A few days later, David managed to escape as well. He fled with the help of one of the slaves who had already escaped from Dent's farm. The following morning, David boarded a barge on Town Creek, across from Solomon's Island. The barge transported him to one of the British vessels in the Patuxent River.2
The widowed Larine Dent later married Peter
U. Thomson, who filed a claim for the escaped slaves.6
1. Harry Wright Newman, Charles County Gentry (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1971) 95.
2. Claim of Peter Thompson, St. Mary's County, Case No. 650, Case Files, Ca. 1814-28, entry 190, Record Group 76, National Archives, College Park.
3. Ibid.
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