Margaret Haskins (b. 1813 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-51315
Accomplice to slave flight, Dorchester County, 1858

Sources:

Archival Sources -

Dorchester County Circuit Court (Court Papers), Presentments, April 1858, State Vs. Margaret Haskins, Free Negro.

CAROLINE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Docket), 1837-1933.

DORCHESTER COUNTY COURT (Chattel Records) 1827-1851, Book ER 2, p. 279.

MARYLAND PENITENTIARY (Prisoner Record) 1811-1869.

Newspapers -

"Runaways and Arrests," Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser. 14 January, 1858.

"More Runaways from Dorchester," Easton Gazette. 9 January 1858.

"Departure of a Conductor of the Under Ground," Easton Gazette. 23 January, 1858.

"American Slavery," Friends' Intelligencer, Vol. XV, No. 2, Third Month 27, 1858.

Kelley, William T. "Underground R.R. Reminiscences." Friends' Intelligencer and Journal, Volume 55, p. 264-265 (1898).

Secondary Sources -

Guida, Patricia C. Arthur W. Leverton, Underground Railroad Agent, and His Family: The Levertons, Whiteleys and Wrights. Caroline County Historical Society Inc. 2007.

Guida, Patricia C. comp. Found in Appendix A: Arthur W. Leverton, Marriage, Births, Deaths, Certificates of Removal. Caroline County Historical Society Inc. 2007.

Hardy, Tanya: Interracial Relations in Antebellum Maryland.

Internet Sources -

Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census, Slave Schedule , Dorchester County, Maryland, District 1, p. 11.

Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census, Slave Schedule, Sussex, Delaware, p. 3.

Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census, Slave Schedule, Dorchester County, Maryland, District 7, p. 9.
 

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