John Crompton (b. circa 1814 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050609
Part of large slave flight from Poolesville area, Montgomery County,
Maryland, 1832
Biography:
John Crompton fled his enslavement in November 1832. The slaveholder Elisha W. Williams, whose farm stood near Poolesville, advertised in the Daily National Intelligencer for two years for Crompton's capture. The reqward amount escalated from $100 in 1832 to $300 in 1833, with the adverstisement running through the following year. Williams believed that Crompton had headed towards Lewistown, Pennsylvania, with "fourteen others" who had escaped from the Poolesville area around the same time.1
The fourteen other fugitives included George
Boman, Peter
Boman, Collin
Brooks, Joe
Carroll, Beverly
Davis, Davy,
Daniel
Jackson, Tobias
Martin, Peter
Reader, George
Swine, and Sandy
Swine, who had fled near the end of 1831 from the same area.
1. "$100 Reward." Daily
National Intelligencer 1 December 1832: 3.
"Three Hundred
Dollars Reward." Daily National Intelligancer 4 January 1834.
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