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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