Elizabeth Jones (b. circa 1813 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-002518
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, St. Mary's County, Maryland
Biography:
Elizabeth Jones was only two years old when her mother, Margaret
Clem, escaped from George
Loker's farm. On Sunday, February 19, 1815, Margaret took Elizabeth
and her two other daughters, Lilly
and Julian,
and boarded the British frigate Havannah.1 They were
transferred to the Orlando
on February 27, 1815.2 Elizabeth and her mother and sisters
settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia, along with approximately two thousand
black refugees who had fled to or been taken by the British.3
1. Claim of George Loker, Case
121, 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.
Definitive List
of Slaves and Property, compiled ca. 1827 - ca. 1828, ARC Identifier 1174162
/ MLR Number PI 177 192. National Archives, College Park.
ST. MARY'S COUNTY,
COMMISSIONERS OF THE TAX, (Assessment Record, Slaves), 1813, [MSA C1544-34].
George Loker, St. Inigoe's District, March 16, 1813.
"Halifax List,"
African Nova Scotians: in the Age of Slavery and Abolition, Nova Scotia
Archives and Records Management, http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/.
2. Thomas M. Bayly, No. III, Bayly's List (RG 76. Records of Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitration. Records of the Mixed Claims Commission: Miscellaneous Records) 107, 112.
3. "Halifax List."
"Black Refugees,
1813-1834," African Nova Scotians: in the Age of Slavery and Abolition,
Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/.
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