Elijah Beauchamp (b. circa 1792 - d. 1856)
MSA SC 5496-050826
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, Somerset County, Maryland, 1814

Sources:

Archival Sources -

Claim of Samuel Beauchamp, Case 784. 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.

Claim of Isaac Beauchamp, Case 706. 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 Thomas Beachamp, 1810, Pocomoke Hundred, Somerset County, Page 1b, Line 7 [MSA SM61-57, M 2061-4].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Thomas Jones, 1810, Somerset County, Great Annamessex Hundred, Somerset County, Page 1, 12th line from bottom. [MSA SM61-57, M 2061-4].

Newspapers and Journals -

Hall, Wiley, ed. "The Colonial Marines." The Maryland Natural Resource 11.4 (Fall 2008): 9. Maryland State Archives.

Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. "Black Freedom Fighters (War of 1812)." Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. Vol. 1: A-N. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007. 62-66.

Books -

Admiralty-Office. The Navy List. London, UK: H.M. Stationery Office, 1814.

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

MacQueen, James. A Narrative of the Principal Military Events During the Memorable Campaigns of 1812, 1813, 1814 in Russia, Germany, Spain, France, & America. Glasgow, UK: Edward Kuhl, & Co., 1814.

Stark, James H. Stark's Guide-Book and History of Trinidad. Boston, UK: James H. Stark, 1897.

Weiss, John McNish. The Merikens: Free Black American Settlers in Trinidad: 1815-1816. London, UK: McNish & Weiss, 2002.

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