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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