Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Lewis Charlton (b. 1814 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-008777
Released from Slavery, Frederick County, Maryland, 1842


Archival Sources:

CARROLL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records, MD) MSA CM291, Amos Bell, vol. 34, p. 445,  1867, CR, MSA CM291-22.

FREDRICK COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories, Microfilm) Ignatius Davis, 1827, page 793,  MSA CM 479-22, CR 50,054-2.

United Kingdom, Cerified Copy of Entry of Death for Lewis Charlton,  March 26, 1888.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, Lewis Charlton, p.17, 1850, HA, MSA SM61-140, M1498-1.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, Lewis Charlton, p.465, 1860, HA, MSA SM61-210, M7222-1.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, Lewis Charlton, p.538, 1870, HA, MSA SM61-266, M7247.

Secondary Sources:

Articles -

Jeffrey Green, "Lewis Charlton and the Economics of Slave Narratives," 138, February 2014.

Books:

Narratives Available via the University of North Carolina's Documenting the American South Project
Lewis Charlton.  Sketch of the Life of Mr. Lewis Charlton, and Reminiscences of Slavery. Edited by Edward Everett Brown. 



 

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