Joseph (b. circa 1790 - d. circa ?)
MSA SC 5496-001678
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, St. Mary's County

Biography:

Joseph was enslaved on John K. Jackson's farm on Cedar Point in Saint Mary's County.¹ In the spring of 1813, Joseph was one of Jackson's four slaves. They likely worked along side the fourteen slaves of Mary Jackson, John Jackson's wife. ²

In May 1814, Joseph escaped to British forces on the Potomac River. He joined the slave Ralph Jackson,³ boarding the frigate San Domingo under the command of Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren.⁴
 

1.     Definitive List of Slaves and Property/, compiled ca. 1827 - ca. 1828/ *ARC Identifier 1174162 / MLR Number PI 177 192,* National Archives at College Park.
        U.S. Census Record (Census Record, MD) John K. Jackson, 1810, St. Mary's County, Page 23b, last line [MSA SM61-56, M 2061-3].

2.     ST. MARY'S COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE TAX, (Assessment Record, Slaves), 1813, [MSA C1544-32]. John K. Jackson, April 6, 1813.
        ST. MARY'S COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE TAX, (Assessment Record, Slaves), 1813, [MSA C1544-32]. Mary Jackson, March 17, 1813.

3.     Claim of John K. Jackson, Saint Mary's County, Case No. 835, 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.
3.     Definitive List of Slaves and Property.

4.     David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997) 225.
        Robert Malcomson, Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812 (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006) 447.
 

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