Frisby Harris MSA SC 5496-050643

Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Frisby Harris (b. circa 1796 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050643
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, Calvert County, Maryland, 1814

Sources:

Archival Sources -

Bayly, Thomas M. No. III, Bayly's List. RG 76. Records of Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitration. Records of the Mixed Claims Commission: Miscellaneous Records. National Archives, College Park.

Calvert County District 2, Simon J. Martenet, Map of Calvert County, 1865, Huntingfield Collection, [MSA SC 1399-1-75].

Claim of William Harris, Case 773. 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.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for William Harris, 1800, Calvert County, All Saints Parish, Page 8, Line 6 [MSA SM61-25, M 2054-4].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for William Harris, 1810, Calvert County, district not stated, Page 7b, 5th line from bottom [MSA SM61-45, M 2060-1].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Robert Low, 1810, Calvert County, district not stated, Page 9b, last line [MSA SM61-45, M 2060-1].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Miss Barbara Fowler, 1820, Calvert County, District 2, Page 7, Line 4 [MSA SM61-65, M 2062-2].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Barbara Fowler, 1850, Calvert County, District 2, Page 38, Line 23 [MSA SM61-132, M 1492-1].

Books -

Crawford, Michael, ed. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History. Vol. 3. Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 2002.

Malcomson, Robert. Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2006.

Marine, William M. The British Invasion of Maryland, 1812-1815. Baltimore, MD: Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland, 1913.

Shomette, Donald. Tidewater Time Capsule: History Beneath the Patuxent. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishing, 1995.

Skaggs, David Curtis. Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006.

Newspapers and Journals -

"Captains of the Royal Navy." Courier 18 September 1815: 4.

Gannett, Henry. A Gazetteer of Maryland. Bulletin 231, Series F, Geography, 39. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904.

Internet Sources -

"Calvert County, Maryland: Historical Chronology." Maryland Manual On-line. Maryland State Archives. http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/36loc/cal/chron/html/calchron.html.

"Halifax List." African Nova Scotians: in the Age of Slavery and Abolition. Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management. http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/.

"Leitch's Wharf." CT-1194. Maryland Historical Trust. Inventory of Historic Properties. www.mdihp.net.

U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 Record for John H Beall. Ancestry.com.

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