Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Beverly Davis (b. circa 1811 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050621
Part of large slave flight from Poolesville area, Montgomery County, Maryland, 1831

Biography:

On July 16, 1831, Beverly Davis fled his enslavement with the brothers Peter Boman and George Boman. They escaped from Montevideo,1 the farm of John P. C. Peter in Seneca Mills where Davis was held as a house slave. Peter believed the fugitives were headed towards Pennsylvania, placing a runaway advertisement describing as Davis as "about twenty years of age—a dark copper color, slender make, and about [five feet and] nine or ten inches high."2
 

1.     Roger Brooke Farquhar. Historic Montgomery County, Maryland: Old Homes and History (Silver Spring, MD: Published by the author, 1962) 217-221.
        Michael Dwyer. Montgomery County (Charleston, SC: Arcadea Publishing, 2006) 64.
        "Montevideo." M: 17-58.  Maryland Historical Trust. www.mdihp.net.

2.     "150 Dollars Reward." Daily National Intelligencer 28 July 1831: 1.
  

Researched and written by Rachel Frazier, 2010.

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