Hugh Hazlett MSA SC 5496-3387

Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Hugh Hazlett (b. circa 1831 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-3387
Accomplice to slave flight, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1858

Sources:

Archival Sources -

SECRETARY OF STATE (Pardon Record) MSA S1108, Hugh Hazlett, p 426, Dates: 1845-1865, Accession No.: 7931, [MSA No.: S 1108-2.

DORCHESTER COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Court Papers) MSA T2317, Hugh Hazlett, Criminal Trial No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, No. 7, No. 8, No. 9, No.10, November Term 1858, Dates: 1858-1860, Box No.: 3, Description: November 1858; January to April Term 1859; January to April Term 1860, July to November 1860, Accession No.: 2002/01/23, MSA No.: T 2317-2.

DORCHESTER COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Court Papers) MSA T2317, Hugh Hazlett, Governor's Pardon, Box No.: 3, Description: November 1858;
Accession No.: 2002/01/23, MSA No.: T 2317-2.

Archives of Maryland Online, Volume 588, page 110 - Session Laws, 1860, Chapter 69.

Archives of Maryland Online, Volume 102, "Proceedings and Debates of the 1864 Constitutional Convention".

MARYLAND PENITENTIARY (Commitments) MSA S270, Hugh Hazlett, #5324, Dates: 1857-1863, Description: 5711-5760, Accession No.: 5688-2,
MSA No.: S 270-2.

MARYLAND PENITENTIARY (Prisoners Record) MSA S275, Hugh Hazlett, #5324, Dates: 1811, 1826-1869, Description: 1, 1773-7229, Accession No.: 5656, MSA No.: S 275-2.

GOVERNOR (Miscellaneous Papers) MSA S1274, Application for group pardon for MD Penitentiary prisoners, Includes Daniel Craner and Hugh Hazlett, Dates: 1856, 1862-1865, Box: 83 folder: 17 MSA S 1274.

GOVERNOR (Proceedings) MSA S1072, Hugh Hazlitt, p 254, Nov 21, 1864, Hugh Hazlitt, p 258, Dec 19, 1864, Dates: 1861-1869, Accession No.: 7897, MSA No.: S 1072-5.

SECRETARY OF STATE (Pardon Docket) MSA S1110, Hugh Hazlett, #282, p 40, November 21, 1864, Dates: 1862-1869, Accession No.: 7943,
MSA No.: S 1110-1.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, Hugh Haslett, Age 29, (enumerated in Maryland Penitentiary), Dates: 1860, Description: BC. 4, Wards 8-9, pp. 1-437, Accession No.: M 7207 MSA No.: SM 61- 183.

Books -

Still, William. The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872), p. 476.

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2004.

Newspapers and Journals-

"Excitement at Cambridge, MD" Baltimore Sun. 5 August 1858.

"Escape and Capture of a Prisoner in Cambridge" Baltimore Sun. 8 October 1858.

“The capture of the gang of Negroes…”, August 10, 1858, Easton Star Collection MSA SC 3596 [OCLC 9637128] , Film No.: M 11317.

“Negroes Captured”, August 7, 1858, “Trial of Hugh Hazlitt in Cambridge”, November 20, 1858, Easton Gazette Collection, MSA SC 2940, Film No.: M 11033.

"Convention of Slaveholders." Baltimore Sun, 6 November 1858.

Internet Sources -

Ancestry.com. 1880 United States Federal Census, Baltimore County, District 9 (Timonium), p. 1.

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