Archives of Maryland
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Jonah Kelley (b. 1800 - d. 1873)
MSA SC 5496-13488 
Accomplice to slave flight, Caroline County

Sources:

Archival Sources:

Caroline County Court (Land Records), Book X, 1845-1848, pp. 225 - 226.

CAROLINE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Docket), 1837-1933.

Caroline Count Register of Wills (Wills), 1853-1885, Book WGN B, p. 367. 

Books and Journals :

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

Kelley, William T. "Underground R.R. Reminiscences." Friends' Intelligencer and Journal, Volume 55, p. 238 (1898).

Siebert, William Henry. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom. McMillan Company: London, 1898. 

Secondary Sources -

Guida, Patricia C. Arthur W. Leverton, Underground Railroad Agent, and His Family: The Levertons, Whiteleys and Wrights. Caroline County Historical Society Inc. 2007.

Guida, Patricia C. comp. Arthur W. Leverton, Marriage, Births, Deaths, Certificates of Removal. Caroline County Historical Society Inc. 2007.

Internet Sources:

Ancestry.com. 1830 United States Federal Census, Caroline County, District 2, p. 25.

Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census, Dorchester County, New Market, p. 1.

Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census, Dorchester County, District 2, p. 14.

Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census, Caroline County, District 4, pp. 59 - 60. 

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, "Linchester Mill."

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