Mary Mitchel (b. circa 1790 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050625
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, Calvert County, Maryland, 1814
Biography:
Mary and her two daughters, Harriet and Sidney, escaped to the British in July 1814.1 Mary's husband, William Mitchel, had already escaped from John Dare's farm in the same county, and had joined the Colonial Marines under the British. He returned for his Mary, Harriet, and Sydney shortly afterwards.2 Mary and her children were enslaved on Juliet Rawlings' farm.
The Mitchels settled at Preston, the largest settlement of black refugees
in Nova Scotia. By 1816, William had built a hut on half an acre of land
that he had cleared in plot A, section 3, of the settlement.3
1. Claim of Susannah and Juliet Rawlings, Calvert County, Case No. 569, Case Files, Ca. 1814-28, entry 190, Record Group 76, National Archives, College Park.
2. Claim of Dr. John Dare, Case 606. Case Files, compiled ca. 1827 - ca. 1828, documenting the period ca. 1814 - ca. 1828, *ARC Identifier 1174160 / MLR Number PI 177 190,* National Archives, College Park.
3. Report of lands cleared
by the people of colour in the settlement of Preston..." African Nova Scotians:
in the Age of Slavery and Abolition, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management.
http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/.
"A list of
people of colour settled at Preston," African Nova Scotians: in the Age
of Slavery and Abolition, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management.
http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/.
"Halifax List,"
African Nova Scotians: in the Age of Slavery and Abolition, Nova Scotia
Archives and Records Management, http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/.
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