Yarrow Mamout (b. circa 1736 - d. 1824)
MSA SC 5496-050568
Enslaved Muslim, Montgomery County, Maryland

Sources:

MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Land Records) Liber G, 1795-1797, Manumission of Negro Quilla from Ann Chambers, Folio 147-148, [MSA CE 148-8]

MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Land Records), Liber G, 1795-1797, Manumission of Yarro from Upton Beall, Folio 285, [MSA CE 148-8]

Gomez, Michael A. " Muslims in Early America." The Journal of Southern History (1994), Vol. 60, No. 4, 671-710.

Haley, Kenneth C. "A Nineteenth Century Portraitist and More: James Alexander Simpson." Maryland Historical Magazine (1977), Vol. 72, No. 3, 401-412.

Johnston, James H. "Every Picture Tells a Story: A Narrative Portrait of Yarrow Mamout." Maryland Historical Magazine (2008), 416-431.

Johnston, James H. "Yarrow Mamout." The Montgomery County Story (2004), Vol. 47, No. 2, 14-23.

Sellers, Charles C. "Charles Willson Peale and Yarrow Mamout." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1947), Vol. 71, No. 2, 99-102.

Taggart, Hugh T. "Old Georgetown." Records of the Columbia Historical Society (1908), Vol. 11, 120-224.

Cook, Eleanor M. V. The Brooke Beall Family and the Johns Family. Maryland: Montgomery County Historical Society, 1986.

Kaplan, Sidney and Emma Nogrady Kaplan. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989.

Lesko, Kathleen M., Valerie Babb, and Carroll R. Gibbs. Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of its Black Community From the Founding of "The Town of George" in
    1751 to the Present Day. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999.

1800 United States Federal Census, District of Columbia, Yarrow, www.ancestry.com

1820 United States Census Washington, DC, Yarrow Marmout, www.ancestry.com

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