| MSA
SC 4239
compiled by Dr. Loren Schweninger from Maryland State Archives records for "Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks: Petitions to Maryland" |
* ALLEGANY COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) [T1782-1-6-1]
6 Tilghman Belt vs George Thistle, Thomas Monnett, and John Slagle MSA
SC 4239-7-1
* ALLEGANY COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[T1782-3-142]
142 David Lynn and William McMahon vs. Roger Perry MSA SC 4239-7-2
* ALLEGANY COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[T1782-3-181]
181 Petition of Charles V. Swearingen 14 February 1821; decree of court
25 October 1834 MSA SC 4239-7-3
* ALLEGANY COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[T1782-3-219-1]
219 Catherine Heckrote vs. William Heckrote MSA SC 4239-7-4
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURT
(Court Papers) [T391-1]
Petition of Charity Ridgely for Benefit of Insolvent MSA SC 4239-8-1
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT
COURT (Equity Papers)
[C70-1] OS 9 Solomon G. Chaney vs. Shelby Clark MSA SC 4239-9-1
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-6] OS 47 Joseph Jenkins & wife vs. Joseph Rainor MSA SC
4239-9-2
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-10] OS 79 Harriett Ann Watkins vs William Watkins MSA SC 4239-9-3
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-12] OS 96 Frank Stockett et al. vs Charles Stockett MSA SC
4239-9-4
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-12] OS 97 Emerald Lawrence et al. vs. Ethelinda Lawrence et al.
MSA
SC 4239-9-5
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-14] OS 119 Edward McCeney et al. vs. James Deale MSA SC 4239-9-6
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-16] OS 130 James Turner et al. vs. Ann Warfield et al. MSA SC
4239-9-7
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-22] OS 176 Richard Drury et al. vs. John Hill and James Hill MSA
SC
4239-9-8
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-23] OS 187 Margery A. Wells vs. James H. Wells MSA SC 4239-9-9
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-24] OS 195 Catherine Barber vs. John Barber MSA SC 4239-9-10
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-27] OS 219 William Hall vs. Margaret Hall MSA SC 4239-9-11
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-28] OS 234 Joseph Hill et al. vs. John W. Greenwell MSA SC
4239-9-12
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-32] OS 259 Jonathan Marriott vs. Nathan Watts MSA SC 4239-9-13
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-32] OS 268 Samuel Ridout vs. Rachel Tydings MSA SC 4239-9-14
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-34] OS 295 Nathan E. Berry vs. Dr. William Ghiselin MSA SC
4239-9-15
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-34] OS 297 William Urquehart vs Anne Urquehart MSA SC 4239-9-16
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-34] OS 298 Stephen L. Lee vs. Caroline E. Lee MSA SC 4239-9-17
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-35] OS 311 Mary Ann Brown vs. Charles Brown et al. MSA SC
4239-9-18
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-36] OS 318 Harriet Schwrar vs. Philip Schwrar MSA SC 4239-9-19
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[C70-42] OS 360 Emma Weedon vs. William S. Weedon MSA SC 4239-9-20
msa_sc_4239_m11019
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
[C127-1]
Petition of Lemuel G. Taylor MSA SC 4239-10-1
* ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
[C128-1] Nancy and George Hynson vs. Levin Woolford MSA SC 4239-11-1
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF
WILLS (Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of James Norris 10 June 1789 MSA SC 4239-14-1
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of William Gordon ca. [1790s] MSA SC 4239-14-2
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Abel Headington 15 December 1790 MSA SC 4239-14-3
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Samuel Merryman 25 October 1791 MSA SC 4239-14-4
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of James Hughes 16 December 1791 MSA SC 4239-14-5
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Matthew Cock 1792 MSA SC 4239-14-6
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of James Davidson 1792 MSA SC 4239-14-7
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of John Given 15 August 1792 MSA SC 4239-14-8
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Catherine Oliver 10 February 1793 MSA SC
4239-14-9
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Rebecca Murray 1793 MSA SC 4239-14-10
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of William Litzinger 1794 MSA SC 4239-14-11
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of George Fitzhugh October 1795 MSA SC 4239-14-12
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Jacob Sampson 1797 MSA SC 4239-14-13
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Helen Burk 13 October 1797 MSA SC 4239-14-14
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of William Mathews 23 May 1798 MSA SC 4239-14-15
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] George Duttero vs. Thomas Greenwood petition of George
Duttero
1797;
answer 13 June 1794 Request to sell house and slave MSA SC 4239-14-16
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Johnza Dorsey 11 June 1799 MSA SC 4239-14-17
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Charles Later 30 April 1800 MSA SC 4239-14-18
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of William Baldwin 1800 MSA SC 4239-14-19
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Richard Chenoweth 1800 MSA SC 4239-14-20
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Joshua Dorsey 9 April 1800 MSA SC 4239-14-21
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Thomas Derochrune 27 July 1803 MSA SC 4239-14-22
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Elizabeth Merryman 30 April 1803 MSA SC
4239-14-23
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Rebecca Osborn 8 October 1803 MSA SC 4239-14-24
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of John Yeiser, Jr. 30 November 1803; answer of John
Holliday
[1803] MSA SC 4239-14-25
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Aquila Miles 10 December 1803 MSA SC 4239-14-26
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Thomas Johnson 24 October 1804 MSA SC 4239-14-27
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Rebecca Young 12 October 1805 MSA SC 4239-14-28
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Benjamin Hart 1806 MSA SC 4239-14-29
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Philemon Towson 1806 MSA SC 4239-14-30
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Kinsey and John Johns 1806 MSA SC 4239-14-31
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Kinsey Johns 1807 Johns raised "from its infancy"
a free Negro boy named Clem "aged about thirteen years whose father is
a slave and whose mother now deceased was a free woman, and cousin of
your petitioner"; asked that Clem be bound to his brother James Johns
MSA
SC 4239-14-32
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Loluthaiel Cole 11 February 1807 MSA SC
4239-14-33
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Philip Chamberlain 4 March 1807 MSA SC 4239-14-34
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Sarah Wolf 20 July 1807 MSA SC 4239-14-35
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Elizabeth Hayes 17 November 1807 MSA SC
4239-14-36
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Joseph Bend 29 November 1807 MSA SC 4239-14-37
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of John Standiford 12 December 1807 MSA SC
4239-14-38
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Joseph G. J. Bend 4 March 1808 MSA SC 4239-14-39
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Henry Middleton 14 April 1808 MSA SC 4239-14-40
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Charlotte Peck 18 March 1809 MSA SC 4239-14-41
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of William Winchester 26 April 1809 MSA SC
4239-14-42
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Mary Eislen 15 November 1809 MSA SC 4239-14-43
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Luke Thomas 22 November 1809 MSA SC 4239-14-44
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of George Jours 10 January 1810 MSA SC 4239-14-45
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Adam Baker 12 April 1811; depositions of Kerr et
al. 15 January 1811; depositions of Martin et al. 15 January 1811;
letter
8 August 1795; depositions 5 June 1811 Case involving estate of Thomas
Thuat who lived in the West Indies and had a black daughter MSA SC
4239-14-46
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Alexis Lemmon 19 April 1811 MSA SC 4239-14-47
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Lucy Roe Vs. Joseph Roach petition 25 July 1811; answer
[1811];
exception [1811] Slave Daphney sold without permission of estate MSA SC
4239-14-48
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Petition of Job Smith 1812 MSA SC 4239-14-49
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-179] Nicholas Leeke vs. John Pearce petition 27 May 1812 Negro
Perry,
belonging to the estate of petitioner's ward, was violently removed
from
the home of petitioner by Catherine Pearce, former guardian of ward MSA
SC 4239-14-50
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Nancy M. Hanna 12 September 1812 MSA SC
4239-14-51
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Edward Fondall 1813 MSA SC 4239-14-52
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Achsah Owings 1813 MSA SC 4239-14-53
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] James Helsey vs. William Hitchcock petition 12 January 1813
Plaintiff
claiming ownership of slave Isaac in the possession of William
Hitchcock
MSA SC 4239-14-54
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Jacob Forty 9 June 1813 Free black seeks to take
out letters of administration on the personal property of free black
sailor
Peter Baker who died at sea MSA SC 4239-14-55
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of E. Dall 28 May 1814 MSA SC 4239-14-56
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of John Davis 1815 MSA SC 4239-14-57
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of John Gorham 1816 MSA SC 4239-14-58
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Nicholas Owings 30 November 1816 MSA SC
4239-14-59
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Mary Arnold 1817; anwser of William Shaw 5 March
1817 MSA SC 4239-14-60
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of James Alcorn 1817 MSA SC 4239-14-61
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Uria Brown 1817 MSA SC 4239-14-62
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Priscilla McConnell 19 April 1817 MSA SC
4239-14-63
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Jane Choate 25 July 1817 MSA SC 4239-14-64
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of R. B. Magruder 5 November 1817 MSA SC 4239-14-65
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Joseph Rogers 12 December 1817 MSA SC 4239-14-66
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of William McMechin 1818 MSA SC 4239-14-67
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Dealy Standiford 1818 MSA SC 4239-14-68
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of William Yarley 20 March 1818 MSA SC 4239-14-69
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Benjamin Bowen vs. William Cook petition 25 May 1818 Security
holders for an estate charge that guardian for infant children of
Ephraim
Stansbury illegally sold "a Negro man belonging to the said children"
MSA
SC 4239-14-70
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Charles Mitchell vs. Edward Gray petition 13 January 1819;
answer
1 February 1819; indenture 3 September 1818; court order November 1818;
assignment 22 January 1818 Free black boy indentured to New York to
learn
navigation, but was imprisoned in Baltimore by a man named Bishop who
planned
to sell him to Georgia MSA SC 4239-14-71
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] William Smith vs. Joshua Lewis petition 10 February 1819;
answer
14 April 1819; questions and interrogation 30 April 1819 Creditors of
estate
of Eli Simkins charge that certain personal property including slaves
was
not listed in executor's accounts; "Were there not certain negroes
which
were in the family of the said Eli Simkins as domestics Were they not
Slaves?"
MSA SC 4239-14-72
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of John Dubernat 22 February 1819 MSA SC 4239-14-73
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Edward Howard 1 April 1819 MSA SC 4239-14-74
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] John Mauldin vs. Negro Ben petition 19 May 1819 Free Negro
girl
Harriett, whose mother died, was taken away from petitioner by "a negro
man named Ben" MSA SC 4239-14-75
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Jane Matthew vs. Mary Smith et al. petition 20 August 1819
Illiterate
white said a "certain Black Girl" named Mary Smith was placed with him
by her maternal grandmother for protection, but the slave father had
now
taken Mary MSA SC 4239-14-76
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Charles Hamell vs. Joseph Jackson petition 19 December 1819
Free
black apprentice plasterer runs away to his mother Deliah Jackson MSA
SC
4239-14-77
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Negro Rachel 1819 MSA SC 4239-14-78
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] James Hughes et al. vs. John Bell petition 19 January 1820;
answer
29 January 1820 Insolvent heir of an estate is "determined to sell
without
permission two Negroes belonging to said Estate particularly, a young
&
valuable Negro man now lately under hire" MSA SC 4239-14-79
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Mary Bastille 19 August 1820; answer 20 August
1820;
certificate 26 August 1820; depositions 20 August 1820 MSA SC
4239-14-80
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Benedict F. Van Pradelles vs. Charlotte Owings petition 25
August
1820 Dispute over ownership of slaves belonging to an estate MSA SC
4239-14-81
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Sarah McAllistor 23 April 1821 MSA SC 4239-14-82
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Robert N. Johnson 11 September 1821 MSA SC
4239-14-83
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Abraham Waller vs. John Jillard petition 22 January 1822
Husband
of heir to estate claims that executor does not account for all the
return
of hired slaves in a trust MSA SC 4239-14-84
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Benedict Sanders 8 August 1822; statement of
estate
[1822] MSA SC 4239-14-85
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of William Brown et al. 11 September 1822 MSA SC
4239-14-86
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Peter Cazeause October 1822 MSA SC 4239-14-87
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Eleanor Leonard vs. John Clark petition 8 October 1822 Wife
of
slaveowner seeks to protect "a Negro woman, who has been long in the
Family
and a Negro Girl" from creditors to husband's estate MSA SC 4239-14-88
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Elizabeth Lindall 17 December 1822 MSA SC
4239-14-89
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Eliza Ringgold 21 December 1822 MSA SC 4239-14-90
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Abraham Sellers 1823 MSA SC 4239-14-91
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of John Hiller 7 February 1823 MSA SC 4239-14-92
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Elizabeth Lynch 15 March 1823 MSA SC 4239-14-93
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Uria Brown 9 May 1822 MSA SC 4239-14-94
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Jane Armstrong 19 September 1823 MSA SC
4239-14-95
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Rebecca Chapman 23 December 1823 MSA SC
4239-14-96
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of James Masher 9 August 1824 MSA SC 4239-14-97
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Henry Odell 30 September 1824 MSA SC 4239-14-98
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Sarah Norris 18 October 1824 MSA SC 4239-14-99
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Eleanor Leonard 20 January 1824 MSA SC
4239-14-100
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Joshua Pearce 18 February 1824 MSA SC 4239-14-101
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Wiley vs. Pearce petition 10 March 1824; petition 11 March
1824
MSA SC 4239-14-102
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Basil Stevenson et al. 19 March 1824 MSA SC
4239-14-103
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of William Shipley 26 March 1824 MSA SC 4239-14-104
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Sarah Seddon 30 March 1824 MSA SC 4239-14-105
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Philip Bowen 10 April 1824 MSA SC 4239-14-106
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of Catharine McNeal 24 April 1824 MSA SC 4239-14-107
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Hiller vs. Dickson petition 10 June 1824; answer 10 August
1824
MSA SC 4239-14-108
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Wilson vs. Cooper petition 22 January 1825 MSA SC 4239-14-109
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-180] Petition of James Graham 29 June 1825; answer 30 June 1825;
bill
of sale 29 June 1825 MSA SC 4239-14-110
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Edward Choat 13 September 1825 MSA SC 4239-14-111
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Levi Browning vs. Mary Ann Browning petition 6 December 1825
MSA SC 4239-14-112
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Rebecca Freeman 20 December 1825 MSA SC
4239-14-113
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Rebecca Freeman 21 December 1825 MSA SC
4239-14-114
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Elizabeth Bosley 7 February 1826 MSA SC
4239-14-115
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Margaret Hanna 18 February 1826 MSA SC
4239-14-116
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] James Robinson vs. John Walker petition 26 March 1826; will
of
James Robinson 21 October 1821 MSA SC 4239-14-117
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of James Clark 18 July 1826 MSA SC 4239-14-118
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Sarah Yundt 23 September 1826 MSA SC 4239-14-119
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Thomas Lawrence 6 October 1826 MSA SC 4239-14-120
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Mary C. Spence 15 November 1826 MSA SC
4239-14-121
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of George Bartlett et al. 31 January 1827 MSA SC
4239-14-122
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Joseph R. Foard 3 February 1827 MSA SC
4239-14-123
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Keziah Stansbury 26 February 1827 MSA SC
4239-14-124
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Joshua Fennell 7 March 1827 MSA SC 4239-14-125
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of William Stewart 13 April 1827 MSA SC 4239-14-126
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Benjamin Wheeler 2 May 1827 MSA SC 4239-14-127
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Simon Guthrow 25 July 1827 MSA SC 4239-14-128
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Ester, Susan, and Charlotte vs. Amos Ogden petition 1
September
1827 Problems of manumitted slaves MSA SC 4239-14-129
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Jonas Pumington 19 December 1827 MSA SC
4239-14-130
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Charles Wooden 15 January 1828 MSA SC 4239-14-131
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Thomas Peters 2 June 1828 MSA SC 4239-14-132
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Job G. Stansbury 17 June 1828 MSA SC 4239-14-133
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Job G. Stansbury 19 July 1828 MSA SC 4239-14-134
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Jabez McGill 18 August 1828 MSA SC 4239-14-135
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of B. U. Campbell 28 November 1828 MSA SC
4239-14-136
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of A. W. Worthington 27 May 1829 MSA SC 4239-14-137
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Thomas H. Cooper 24 December 1829 MSA SC
4239-14-138
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of George Warner 22 January 1830 MSA SC 4239-14-139
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Nicholas Hutchins vs. James Graham petition 12 June 1830;
order
of the court #1 17 June 1830; order of the court #2 17 June 1830
Vicious
slave part of a guardianship case MSA SC 4239-14-140
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Augustus Garret 18 August 1830 MSA SC 4239-14-141
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Nathaniel C. Dare 11 November 1830 MSA SC
4239-14-142
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Dennis Marsh 4 January 1831 MSA SC 4239-14-143
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Prudence Bennett 15 February 1831 MSA SC
4239-14-144
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Ann F. Williams 15 June 1831 MSA SC 4239-14-145
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Lavinia Pendleton 6 March 1832 MSA SC 4239-14-146
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of John B. Smith 14 April 1832 MSA SC 4239-14-147
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Lydia Hughes 25 April 1832 MSA SC 4239-14-148
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Sally Allen 11 May 1832 MSA SC 4239-14-149
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Goodwin vs. Keavin petition 11 May 1832; answer 21 May 1832;
deposition 22 May 1832; deposition 26 May 1832 MSA SC 4239-14-150
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Daniel Bender 15 November 1832 MSA SC 4239-14-151
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Charles Carroll 31 December 1832; depositions 11
February 1833; amended petition 11 February 1833; bill of costs 18
March
1833 MSA SC 4239-14-152
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Charles Carroll et al. 10 May 1833 MSA SC
4239-14-153
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-181] Petition of Charles Harper 15 May 1833; Petition of Thomas
Johnson
10 June 1833; Petition of Julia A. M. Gist 14 November 1833 MSA SC
4239-14-154
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of William G. Gorsuch 11 February 1834 MSA SC
4239-14-155
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Catharine Holmes 5 April 1834 MSA SC 4239-14-156
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Sally Williams 6 June 1834 MSA SC 4239-14-157
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of John H. B. Latrobe 30 June 1834 MSA SC
4239-14-158
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Richard Younger 14 August 1834 MSA SC 4239-14-159
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Edward B. Stansbury 15 October 1834 MSA SC
4239-14-160
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Richard Johns 14 January 1835 MSA SC 4239-14-161
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Charles Carroll et al. for sale of "certain
Negroes
on the Folly Farm" 3 March 1835 MSA SC 4239-14-162
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Charles Carroll et al. for sale of "certain
Negroes
on Doughoragen Manor" 3 March 1835 MSA SC 4239-14-163
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Henry Hall 29 May 1835 MSA SC 4239-14-164
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Lyde Goodwin 26 June 1835 MSA SC 4239-14-165
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Robert Morrow 10 September 1835 MSA SC
4239-14-166
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Eliza Zane vs. Maria Cordery petition 30 December 1835;
answer
4 April 1836 MSA SC 4239-14-167
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Emanuel T. J. Woodward 7 January 1836 MSA SC
4239-14-168
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Charles Baker 22 January 1836 MSA SC 4239-14-169
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Harriet Stansbury 29 March 1836 MSA SC
4239-14-170
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Mary Williams vs. Frederick Richter petition 9 May 1836;
answer
20 May 1836 MSA SC 4239-14-171
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Negro Flora Noble et al. vs. Wilson petition 13 May 1836;
answer
17 May 1836; order of the court 17 May 1836; supplemental answer 10
June
1836; order of the court 10 June 1836 MSA SC 4239-14-172
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Charles E. Benson 10 June 1836 MSA SC 4239-14-173
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of William Cole 13 September 1836 MSA SC 4239-14-174
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of James Fowler 1 November 1836 MSA SC 4239-14-175
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Edward Hinkley 14 December 1836 MSA SC
4239-14-176
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Thomas Bond 16 February 1837 MSA SC 4239-14-177
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] John W. Onion vs. Baker petition 4 April 1837 MSA SC
4239-14-178
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Benjamin Wilson vs. Ann Goodwin petition 16 August 1837;
answer
17 August 1837 MSA SC 4239-14-179
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] George Lamb v. Ann D. Woodward petition 29 March 1838 MSA SC
4239-14-180
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of John Durborow 8 September 1838 MSA SC 4239-14-181
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Hammond vs. Inglehart petition 10 October 1838; petition 10
October
1838 MSA SC 4239-14-182
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of William W. Hall 12 March 1839 MSA SC 4239-14-183
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Henry Fulford 19 June 1839 MSA SC 4239-14-184
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Thomas Gorsuch vs. John W. Onion petition 6 July 1839 MSA SC
4239-14-185
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Negro Peter McClure vs. Joseph Matthews petition 30 September
1839; answer 5 October 1839; order of court 5 October 1839 MSA SC
4239-14-186
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Eliza W. Finley 10 December 1840 MSA SC
4239-14-187
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Frances Davidson 6 March 1841 MSA SC 4239-14-188
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Nicholas Lehman 8 September 1841 MSA SC
4239-14-189
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of John Panell 8 September 1841 MSA SC 4239-14-190
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of George Ellicott 5 November 1841 MSA SC
4239-14-191
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of John Duvall 23 March 1842 MSA SC 4239-14-192
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Jacob Schroeder vs. Cassandra Ford petition 15 December 1842;
answer 17 December 1842 MSA SC 4239-14-193
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Thomas Harrison 8 February 1843 MSA SC
4239-14-194
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Jackson vs. Ann Warner petition 16 February 1843 MSA SC
4239-14-195
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Mary E. Kilty 22 November 1843 MSA SC 4239-14-196
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Ann Shaw 4 March 1844 MSA SC 4239-14-197
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of James Mason Campbell 8 May 1845 MSA SC
4239-14-198
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Harriet Solomon 24 May 1845 MSA SC 4239-14-199
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Samuel Hopkins 9 October 1845 MSA SC 4239-14-200
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Henry B. Atkinson 3 December 1845 MSA SC
4239-14-201
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Ann Sutliff 12 January 1846 MSA SC 4239-14-202
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Negro Ellen et al. 15 January 1846 MSA SC
4239-14-203
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Winston vs. Gallagher petition 4 August 1846; answer 26
August
1846; note 29 November 1841; bill of sale 3 July 1832; bill of sale 13
November 1840 MSA SC 4239-14-204
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Samuel Hopkins 5 September 1846 MSA SC
4239-14-205
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Frederick A. Cochran 30 September 1846 MSA SC
4239-14-206
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of William George Krebs 6 October 1846; opinion 6
October
1846 MSA SC 4239-14-207
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition and declaration of Susan Green et al. 2 November
1846
MSA SC 4239-14-208
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Samuel Hopkins 30 November 1846; order of the
court
19 November 1846; order of the court 1 December 1846; notice of sale 27
November 1846 MSA SC 4239-14-209
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Nicholas Foster, Jr. 10 February 1847 MSA SC
4239-14-210
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Gibson Vs. Hall petition 6 March 1847; answer 6 March 1847
MSA
SC 4239-14-211
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Negro Ellen and her children 30 March 1847 MSA SC
4239-14-212
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Michael Pue 15 October 1847 MSA SC 4239-14-213
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Franklin vs. Freeborn G. Waters petition 2 December 1847 MSA
SC 4239-14-214
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Davis vs. Knighton petition 13 March 1848 MSA SC 4239-14-215
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of John Griffis 13 May 1848 MSA SC 4239-14-216
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Bacon vs. Negro boy John Thomas petition 6 June 1848 MSA SC
4239-14-217
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Russell vs. Galloway petition 21 June 1848; indenture 17 July
1841; answer 30 June 1848; deposition 5 July 1848 MSA SC 4239-14-218
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Fountaine vs. Negro girl Amanda petition 7 September 1848;
petition
19 September 1848; extract from will 15 September 1848; bill of sale 11
September 1848; order of the court 16 September 1848; order of the
court
20 September 1848 MSA SC 4239-14-219
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Piggot vs. Thompson petition 11 September 1848 MSA SC
4239-14-220
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Lucien B. Wright vs. Negro Anna Fisher petition 27 September
1848 MSA SC 4239-14-221
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Ann Meyer 31 March 1849 MSA SC 4239-14-222
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of John Griffis 17 May 1849 MSA SC 4239-14-223
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Mathias Linthicum 9 October 1850 MSA SC
4239-14-224
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of Ulrich B. Stammen et al. 22 October 1849 MSA SC
4239-14-225
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of William George Krebs 31 October 1849 MSA SC
4239-14-226
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Bosley vs. Worrel, a slave petition 3 August 1850; petition 6
September 1850; order for citation 8 August 1850; order of the court 20
August 1850; order of the court 9 September 1850 MSA SC 4239-14-227
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Hoffacker vs. Hoffman petition 15 June 1850; answer 21 June
1850
MSA SC 4239-14-228
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Joshua Gent vs. Negro Boy Benjamin Cook petition 5 February
1851;
order of the court 5 February 1851; order of the court 15 February 1851
MSA SC 4239-14-229
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Snowden vs. Hales petition 26 April 1851; answer 26 April
1851;
exhibit 26 April 1851; census page 1850 [USMSPC, Balt. Co., 2nd Dist.
p.
30]; order of the court 26 April 1851 Free black father seeking return
of apprenticed son MSA SC 4239-14-230
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-182] Petition of James McGuire 6 December 1851 MSA SC 4239-14-231
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of William Whyte 8 July 1851; order of court 8 July
1851 MSA SC 4239-14-232
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Johnson vs. Alexander petition 11 March 1852; answer 17 April
1852; order of court 27 May 1852 MSA SC 4239-14-233
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of J. Maybury Turner 17 April 1852; order of court
17
April 1852 MSA SC 4239-14-234
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Waters vs. Butler petition 8 July 1852; order of court 20
July
1852 MSA SC 4239-14-235
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of William Clagette 13 July 1852 MSA SC 4239-14-236
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Stokely vs. Morris petition 31 July 1852 MSA SC 4239-14-237
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Allbright vs. Moore petition 21 August 1852 MSA SC
4239-14-238
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Boyd vs. Burke petition 5 October 1852; order of court 6
October
1852 MSA SC 4239-14-239
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of Richard Turner 8 October 1852 MSA SC 4239-14-240
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of Jane G. Doyle 20 November 1852 MSA SC 4239-14-241
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Heckrotte vs. Grey petition 15 January 1853; order of court
15
January 1853 MSA SC 4239-14-242
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Bowers vs. Bowers petition 18 March 1853 MSA SC 4239-14-243
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of Ann M. E. Johnston 25 May 1853 MSA SC 4239-14-244
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Orndorff vs. Negro Rachel Smallwood petition 11 June 1853;
order
of court 13 June 1853 MSA SC 4239-14-245
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of Darius Stansbury 13 June 1853 MSA SC 4239-14-246
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of George Ross 23 July 1853 MSA SC 4239-14-247
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Hart vs. Negro Woman Eliza petition 22 August 1853;
deposition
26 August 1853; manumission 29 August 1821; order of court 30 August
1853;
order of court 2 October 1854 MSA SC 4239-14-248
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Pickrell vs. Adams Negro Woman petition 23 January 1854; copy
bill of sale 25 January 1855 MSA SC 4239-14-249
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Snell vs. Maddox petition 21 March 1854; answer 28 March
1854;
order of court 28 March 1854 MSA SC 4239-14-250
msa_sc_4239_m11019
* BALTIMORE CITY SUPERIOR COURT
(Chancery Papers)
[C168-75] C535 Moses Clayton et al. vs. John Carey et al MSA SC
4239-12-1
* BALTIMORE CITY SUPERIOR COURT
(Chancery Papers)
[C168-1286] C48 Mary Barton vs. John Rineman et al MSA SC 4239-12-2
* BALTIMORE CITY SUPERIOR COURT
(Chancery Papers)
[C168-1486] C5 Solomon Bowie vs. Philip Marsh MSA SC 4239-12-3
* BALTIMORE CITY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers A,
Miscellaneous) [T53-949-1] African Methodist Bethel Church vs. Joel
Carmack
et al. MSA SC 4239-13-1
* BALTIMORE CITY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers A,
Miscellaneous) [T53-24] Mary W. E. Burroughs vs. Henry Goodrich MSA SC
4239-13-2
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF
WILLS (Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of Elijah Bosley 21 March 1854; order of court 21
March
1854 MSA SC 4239-14-251
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Dorsey vs. Johnson petition 14 August 1854; application of
Michael
Dorsey 14 August 1854; application to bring Johnson to court 7 February
1855 MSA SC 4239-14-252
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Butler vs. Negro Girl Fanny petition 23 August 1854; exhibit
23 August 1854; order of court 24 August 1854 MSA SC 4239-14-253
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Mantz vs. Sawyer petition 25 August 1854; exhibit 25 August
1854;
order of court 26 August 1854 MSA SC 4239-14-254
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Davidson vs. Negro Girl Eliza petition 25 September 1854 MSA
SC 4239-14-255
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Bolter et al. vs. Wade Petition 17 November 1854; answer 30
November
1854; petition 2 December 1854; petition for dismissal 2 December 1854
Free children of color seek to return to St. Mary's County following
the
death of their mother and their being bound to a man against their
wishes
MSA SC 4239-14-256
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Bolter et al. vs. Wade petition 9 December 1854; transcript 9
December 1854; motion of William Wade 13 December 1854; transcript
1855;
prayer for appeal 26 April 1855 MSA SC 4239-14-257
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Wood vs. Negro Aralanta petition 23 January 1855 MSA SC
4239-14-258
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Right vs. Moan petition 24 January 1855; answer 8 February
1855;
copy of indenture 24 January 1855; petition for dismissal 13 February
1855
MSA SC 4239-14-259
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Porter vs. Slave Albert Levi petition 6 March 1855; order of
court 6 March 1855 MSA SC 4239-14-260
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Moan vs. Jones petition 25 April 1855; copy of bills of sale
25 April 1855 MSA SC 4239-14-261
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Kriesmann vs. Negro Burgess petition 27 June 1855; order of
court
30 June 1855 MSA SC 4239-14-262
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Jolly vs. Moan petition 6 July 1855 MSA SC 4239-14-263
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Riddel vs. Wilson petition of Lancelot Wilson 4 September
1855;
petition 2 October 1855; answer 27 October 1855 MSA SC 4239-14-264
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Sprigg vs. Josephine Murry Col'd docket page 9 October 1855;
petition 9 October 1855; copy bill of sale 9 October 1855; order of
court
5 November 1855 MSA SC 4239-14-265
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] McPherson vs. Wilson petition 30 October 1855; answer 31
October
1855; order of court 8 November 1855 MSA SC 4239-14-266
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Brooks vs. Negro Girl Hester petition 1 November 1855;
withdrawal
of petition 2 November 1855 MSA SC 4239-14-267
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Childs vs. Nathaniel Dorsey petition 12 November 1855; order
of court 13 November 1855 MSA SC 4239-14-268
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Brooks vs. Slave Hester petition 26 November 1855; order of
court
28 November 1855 MSA SC 4239-14-269
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Fardy vs. Daniel petition 8 December 1855; copy orphan's
court
order April 1855; bill of sale 16 June 1855; order of court 12 December
1855 MSA SC 4239-14-270
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Anderson et al. vs. Negroes Esther et al. petition 20
December
1855; copy of inventory 20 December 1855; copy of Mary Adams' will 20
December
1855; copy Mary Adams division of Negroes 20 December 1855 MSA SC
4239-14-271
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Dorsey vs. Johnson Negro Apprentice docket page 22 January
1856;
petition 22 January 1856; exhibits A thru E 15 February 1856;
transcript
1856; order of court 16 February 1856; prayer for appeal 16 February
1856
MSA SC 4239-14-272
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Mary Duvall vs. Slave Delia petition 11 February 185[6];
order
of court 11 February 1856 MSA SC 4239-14-273
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] James Reed vs. Charles Pines Negro petition 11 February 1856;
certificate 11 February 1856; order of court 11 February 1856 MSA SC
4239-14-274
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of Samuel Langrall 25 February 1856 MSA SC
4239-14-275
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of Robert Ayres 26 June 1856; order of court 26 June
1856 MSA SC 4239-14-276
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of Henry A. Inloes 26 August 1856; order of court 26
August 1856 MSA SC 4239-14-277
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of Harriet Henry 3 September 1856 MSA SC 4239-14-278
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Humphreys vs. Harris petition 6 October 1856; order of court
6 October 1856 MSA SC 4239-14-279
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Freeman vs. Burgess petition 23 October 1856 MSA SC
4239-14-280
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Wilson vs. Augusta Sprigg Negro Girl petition 2 December
1856;
order of court 27 December 1856 [1857 apparently not extant] MSA SC
4239-14-281
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Kearney vs. William Stewart Negro Boy petition 2 February
1858;
order of court 6 February 1858 MSA SC 4239-14-282
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Bankard vs. Negro Woman Minerva copy criminal commitment 7
May
1858; petition 12 May 1858; copy bill of sale 12 May 1858 MSA SC
4239-14-283
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Dorsey vs. Johnson Negro Apprentice petition 4 June 1858 MSA
SC 4239-14-284
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Wilkinson vs. Phillips petition 11 June 1858 MSA SC
4239-14-285
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Dorman vs. Negro Henrietta petition 18 June 1858; order of
court
18 June 1858; copy of bill of sale 20 July 1854 MSA SC 4239-14-286
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Baer vs. Baer petition 26 July 1858 MSA SC 4239-14-287
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Petition of Jane Mason 19 October 1858; order of court 19
October
1858 MSA SC 4239-14-288
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Mills vs. Sales petition 12 November 1858; order of court 2
December
1858 MSA SC 4239-14-289
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-183] Reed vs. Reed petition 13 November 1858 MSA SC 4239-14-290
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Chaney vs. Curtis Negro Girl petition 25 January 1859; court
record 27 January 1859; state vs. Eliza Ann Curtis September 1858;
order
of court 2 February 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-291
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Ensey vs. Matthews Negro Boy petition 14 March 1859; order of
court 18 March 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-292
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Jones vs. Amos petition 15 March 1859; answer 26 March 1859;
copy of indenture 16 March 1859; order of court 26 March 1859 MSA SC
4239-14-293
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of William E. Beale 21 March 1859; receipt 17
February
1859; order of court 2 April 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-294
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Brashears vs. Turner petition 2 April 1859; order of court 2
April 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-295
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Barnes vs. Clark petition 7 April 1859; order of court 10
August
1859 MSA SC 4239-14-296
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Newman vs. Foulks Col'd Boy petition 26 April 1859; order of
court 26 April 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-297
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of Richard Pleasants 4 May 1859; order of court 4
May
1859 MSA SC 4239-14-298
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Rich vs. Peters petition 23 July 1859; answer 29 July 1859;
order
of court 31 August 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-299
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Bankard vs. Saunders petition 28 July 1859; order of court 28
July 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-300
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of J. Newman Hank 29 July 1859; docket page 29 July
1859; order of court 29 July 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-301
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Swearer vs. Dodd Negro Boy petition 10 August 1859; order of
court 8 October 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-302
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Creamer vs. Cornish petition 17 August 1859; order of court
18
August 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-303
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Herbert vs. Reilly petition 27 August 1859; answer 30 August
1859; order of court 31 August 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-304
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Rich vs. Peters petition 10 September 1859; order of court 6
September 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-305
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Lewis vs. Whittington Col'd Apprentice petition 23 September
1859; order of court 28 September 1859 MSA SC 4239-14-306
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Pratt vs. Swinney order of court 29 September 1859; petition
29 September 1859; answer 6 October 1859; order of court 6 October 1859
MSA SC 4239-14-307
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Swinney vs. Powell petition 6 January 1860; order of court 15
February 1860; petition 10 September 1860 MSA SC 4239-14-308
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Merryman vs. Boston petition 27 January 1860; order of court
17 February 1860; order of court 8 October 1860 MSA SC 4239-14-309
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of Walter T. Baldwin 2 February 1860 MSA SC
4239-14-310
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Murphy vs. Grandison petition 20 February 1860 MSA SC
4239-14-311
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Mullan vs. Egleston petition 8 May 1860; order of court 9 May
1860; order of court 25 June 1860; order of court 11 July 1860; order
of
court 20 November 1860 MSA SC 4239-14-312
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Mason vs. Winchester petition 15 June 1860; order of court 15
June 1860 MSA SC 4239-14-313
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Spencer vs. Moore Negro Apprentice petition 27 June 1860;
order
of court 28 June 1860 MSA SC 4239-14-314
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of William E. Bartlett 16 July 1860; exhibit 16 July
1860; order of court 16 July 1860 MSA SC 4239-14-315
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] George vs. George petition 31 July 1860; answer 21 August
1860
MSA SC 4239-14-316
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of James McDaniel 10 August 1860; order of court 13
August 1860 MSA SC 4239-14-317
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of John Van Ness 5 September 1860; affidavit 4
September
1860 MSA SC 4239-14-318
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Wilson vs. Craught Col'd Apprentice petition 19 September
1860;
order of court 25 September 1860 MSA SC 4239-14-319
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of Nathan Dushane 16 November 1860 MSA SC
4239-14-320
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Whitney vs. Scott petition 27 November 1860; order of court
28
November 1860 MSA SC 4239-14-321
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of John P. Sadtler 6 March 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-322
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Bankard vs. Negro Man Jacob petition 11 March 1861; order of
court 14 March 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-323
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of John P. Thomas 12 March 1861; order of court 19
March
1861 MSA SC 4239-14-324
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Gray vs. Whorton petition 15 March 1861; petition 4 April
1861;
answer 9 April 1861; order of court 13 April 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-325
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of Lloyd W. Williams 28 March 1861 MSA SC
4239-14-326
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Snyder vs. Gough, Colored Apprentice petition 11 April 1861;
order of court 24 April 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-327
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of John Williams 16 May 1861; certificate 4 May
1861;
deposition 8 May 1861; order of court 16 May 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-328
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Walters vs. Burket, Col'd petition 20 May 1861; indenture
1856;
order of court 30 May 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-329
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of John Sadtler 12 July 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-330
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Richenberger vs. Hays Col'd Apprentice petition 9 August
1861;
order of court 22 August 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-331
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Chaney vs. Dorbacker petition 30 October 1861; answer 30
November
1861; amended petition 2 December 1861; order of court 3 December 1861
MSA SC 4239-14-332
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Yearley vs. Johnson petition 14 November 1861; letter 23
November
1861; order of court 14 November 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-333
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Cecil vs. Cecil petition 25 November 1861; order of court 19
December 1861; copy of opinion of court of appeals 20 October 1863 MSA
SC 4239-14-334
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Atkinson vs. Margaret a Slave petition 2 December 1861; order
of court 2 December 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-335
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Martin vs. Smith petition 7 December 1861; indictments for
larceny
May 1861; notice and certification 1 November 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-336
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Rollins vs. Anderson petition 14 December 1861; answer 3
January
1862; dismissal of case 24 January 1862 MSA SC 4239-14-337
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Start vs. Gross petition 18 December 1861; order of court 18
December 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-338
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Mitchell vs. Wisher petition 31 December 1861; order of court
31 December 1861 MSA SC 4239-14-339
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Martin vs. Johnson, Colored Apprentice petition 8 March 1862;
petition 8 April 1862; letter 27 March 1862; order of court 14 March
1862
Black apprentice tells of being beaten "30 licks with a heavy hickry
paddle
with a number of holes bored thrugh it ... I fanted and lay on the
ground
2 hours" MSA SC 4239-14-340
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Start vs. Gross petition 18 April 1862; order of court 18
April
1862 MSA SC 4239-14-341
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of William Snow 12 May 1862 MSA SC 4239-14-342
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Moan vs. James Colored Apprentice petition 13 June 1862 MSA
SC
4239-14-343
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of Benjamin Hall 7 August 1862 MSA SC 4239-14-344
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Read vs. Mary Cecil, free Negro Girl petition 9 October 1862;
order of court 16 October 1862; order of court in relation to binding
Negro
apprentices 23 November 1864 MSA SC 4239-14-345
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Reed vs. Baker petition 28 October 1862 MSA SC 4239-14-346
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of Maggie Garrettson 16 January 1863; order of court
16 January 1863 MSA SC 4239-14-347
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Ridgaway vs. Dangerfield petition 27 August 1863; exceptions
of the petitioners 26 September 1863 MSA SC 4239-14-348
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Waterman vs. Anderson petition 6 February 1864; indenture 16
September 1858; order of court 6 February 1864 MSA SC 4239-14-349
* BALTIMORE CITY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T621-184] Petition of Ruthelia Boston 4 March 1864; order of court 4
March
1864 MSA SC 4239-14-350
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT
(Chancery Papers) [C295-93]
C523 McCausland vs. Chamberlain MSA SC 4239-15-1
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-100]
C521 Hackett vs. Alexander Briscoe MSA SC 4239-15-2
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-168]
C512 Rogers vs. Richard B. Dorsey MSA SC 4239-15-3
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-196]
C514 McCausland vs. Stone MSA SC 4239-15-4
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-261]
C509 Welsh vs. Giese MSA SC 4239-15-5
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-440]
C498 LeBons vs. Young MSA SC 4239-15-6
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-686]
C477 Worthington vs. Norris MSA SC 4239-15-7
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-1648]
C394 Patterson vs. Gooding MSA SC 4239-15-8
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-1845]
C436 Knotts vs. Whayland MSA SC 4239-15-9
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-1866]
C436 Haslup vs. Davis MSA SC 4239-15-10
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-2198]
C350 Keerl vs. Keerl MSA SC 4239-15-11
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-2274]
C340 Colt vs. Hitch MSA SC 4239-15-12
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-2276]
C333 Russo vs.Lynch MSA SC 4239-15-13
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-2956]
C333 ElizabethTinges vs William Tinges MSA SC 4239-15-14
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-2980]
C277 Jorden vs. Jorden MSA SC 4239-15-15
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-3102]
C332 Jane Lyons vs. John Lyons MSA SC 4239-15-16
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-3256]
C279 Elizabeth Collins vs. Williams Collins MSA SC 4239-15-17
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-3295]
C252 Johnson vs. Kendall et al. MSA SC 4239-15-18
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-3433]
C240 James Bush vs. Trustees of the First Colored Independent Wesleyan
Methodist Society of Baltimore MSA SC 4239-15-19
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-3881]
C194 Morrison vs. Divers MSA SC 4239-15-20
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-3889]
C194 Henry Ridgeway vs. Trustees of the First Colored Independent
Wesleyan
Methodist Society of Baltimore MSA SC 4239-15-21
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-4207]
C165 Janes Collins vs. Richardson Collins MSA SC 4239-15-22
* BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [C295-4419]
C158 Perine vs Graves MSA SC 4239-15-23
* BALTIMORE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers)
[T696-674] 47 John Bryan et al. vs. Charles Davis and Patrick Lynch MSA
SC 4239-16-1
* BALTIMORE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers)
[T696-675] 90 John Price vs. Michael M. Annacost MSA SC 4239-16-2
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[C399-1] Estate of Matthew Ridley MSA SC 4239-17-1
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[C399-1] Estate of John Stevenson MSA SC 4239-17-2
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[C399-2] Abraham Egleston vs. William Davidson MSA SC 4239-17-3
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[C399-2] Estate of Dr. John Wilmott MSA SC 4239-17-3
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF
WILLS (Petitions and
Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Estate of George Mancear Petition of David Jean
13 January 1852 Administrator asks to sell property including "One Old
Negro Woman Nackey Chambers about 60 years old slave for life" MSA SC
4239-18-1
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Estate of David Carlisle petition 10 March
1852 Request to sell personal property "except the negroes" MSA SC
4239-18-2
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Estate of David Carlisle petition 16 April
1852 Request to sell slaves at private sale MSA SC 4239-18-3
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Petition of William Hissey, admin. Mary
Green
et al. petition 29 May 1852; order of the court 29 May 1852 Request to
sell slaves MSA SC 4239-18-4
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Larkin Read vs. James Ward petition 24
August
1852; indenture 1841; receipts for maintaining runaway 25 August 1852;
order of the court 24 August 1852 Read seeks extension of service for
runaway
free colored boy; service extended by twelve months MSA SC 4239-18-5
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Joseph Merryman vs. Augusta Sprigg petition
25 August 1852; indenture 1849; receipts for capturing Augusta 25
August
1852; order of the court 31 August 1852 White man seeks extension of
apprenticeship
time for his runaway black servant Augusta Sprigg; term extended for
twelve
months, and Merryman allowed to sell unexpired term MSA SC 4239-18-6
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Petition of Mary Brown 21 September 1852
Free
woman of color, age sixteen, seeks to be bound out to Mary A. Pfeltz;
both
women signed with an X MSA SC 4239-18-7
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Sarah Hicks vs. Salathiel Cole copy of
petition
6 October 1852; copy of deposition 6 October 1852; order of the court
13
October 1852 Fight among legatees concerning distribution of "issue and
increase" MSA SC 4239-18-8
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Estate of [Richard] Emory petition 19
November
1852; order of the court 23 November 1852 Discussion of ownership of
slave
property MSA SC 4239-18-9
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] In the Matter of Administration of Joseph
J.
Speed petition 8 December 1852; order of court 8 December 1852 Petition
relating to "little negro girls," one of whom was "paralysed from the
effects
of small pox, so that it is entirely helpless and utterly worthless and
of no value"; request to sell children at private sale since they could
could not be sold at public auction; request granted MSA SC 4239-18-10
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Petition of Luke Pearce petition 22
December
1852 Asks to sell personal property except slaves MSA SC 4239-18-11
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] William Stewart vs. John Bacon petition 20
May 1853; order of the court 12 March 1856 Apprentice Negro absconds;
petitioner
seeks extension of time of service; term extended 12 months; permission
for sale granted MSA SC 4239-18-12
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] William Stewart vs. Daniel Myers petition
23
May 1853; order of the court 23 May 1853 Stewart seeks to have jailer
Myers
release apprentice John Bacon; request granted MSA SC 4239-18-13
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] In the Matter of Negro Matilda petition of
Richard Hutchens 22 June 1853; exhibit 22 June 1853; order of the court
22 June 1853 Petitioner seeks to sell slave out of state; permission
granted
MSA SC 4239-18-14
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Guardianship of James Brian and William
Brian
petition of Alice Ann Henderson 5 July 1853; exhibit A, list of
personal
property, 5 July 1853 Guardians seek to sell slaves MSA SC 4239-18-15
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Guardianship of William Brian and James
Brian
petition of George Henderson and Alice Henderson 19 July 1853 Request
to
sell slave for less than appraisement MSA SC 4239-18-16
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Salathiel Cole vs. Abraham Ensor petition
11
October 1853; order of the court 11 October 1853 Petition to sell
slaves
granted MSA SC 4239-18-17
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Petition of Nancy C. Lyon petition 18
October
1853; indenture 1849 Lyon seeks to transfer indenture of black for
unexpired
term MSA SC 4239-18-18
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Peter W. Gibbons vs. John Thomas Gray
petition
22 November 1853; order of the court 22 November 1853; order of the
court
30 November 1853; receipt of expenses Negro apprentice John Thomas Gray
runs away; court grants plaintiff permission to sell unexpired term MSA
SC 4239-18-19
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Artridge Cole's Estate petition 21 March
1854;
petition 21 March 1854; certificate of D. Lawrence 17 January 1854;
order
of the court 22 March 1854; order of the court 29 March 1854 Seeks to
sell
Negro boy Joseph and girl Rachael at private sales; authorized by court
MSA SC 4239-18-20
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] George D. Reese vs. Negro James Henry
Curtis
petition 19 April 1854; indenture 1848; order of the court 23 June 1852
Estate administrator seeks to retain indentured servant MSA SC
4239-18-21
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Lewis Griffith vs. Negro Plato petition 30
May 1854; bill of sale 27 April 1846; order of the court 30 May 1854
slave
to serve until age twenty-five, but absconds; seeks to to extend term
of
service MSA SC 4239-18-22
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Robert H. Hammett's Estate petition 12 July
1854; supplemental petition 28 November 1854; order of the court 29
November
1854 Eliza Hammett claims that she owns two slaves in an estate MSA SC
4239-18-23
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] David H. White vs. Negro Girl Augusta
Sprigg
petition 26 July 1854; order of the court 26 July 1854; order of the
court
26 March 1856 Seeks extension of term for runaway; extended one year
MSA
SC 4239-18-24
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Richard Jackson and wife vs. G. W. Lawrence
petition 2 September 1854 Free black parents sue George Lawrence
claiming
that their son, between thirteen and fourteen was apprenticed "without
the Knowledge, Consent or authority of Your petitioners" who "have a
family
of children, which by honest labour, are and attentions, they are
bringing
up to habits of industry and goods morals" MSA SC 4239-18-25
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Guardianship for Children of John Wye, decd
petition 20 September 1854 Free black killed in railroad accident MSA
SC
4239-18-26
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] John Lewis vs. Negro Edward petition 11
October
1854; answer 1854; order of the court 11 October 1854 Indentured black
Edward Smith "on various occasions absents himself from the service of
his said Master who on account of Physical inability cannot properly
chastise
him. . ." MSA SC 4239-18-27
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-450] Daniel Lee vs. Negro Thomas Linn petition 7
November 1854; order of the court 8 November 1854; order of the court 8
November 1854 Plaintiff seeks extension of service for runaway
apprentice;
courts permits sale MSA SC 4239-18-28
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Caleb D. Owings vs. Elias Burgess petition
9 January 1855; petition 12 February 1855; copy of indenture 1855;
expenses
incurred, n.d.; order of the court 10 January 1855; order of the court
13 February 1855; order of the court 13 February 1855 Slave runs away
after
Owings purchased an unexpired term of service; court grants authority
to
sell term of service MSA SC 4239-18-29
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of Joshua Zimmerman ex parte
petition
15 January 1855; indenture 1852; court proceedings 24 January 1855
Seeks
to cancel an indenture of a Negro chimney sweep MSA SC 4239-18-30
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Hiram Kaufman vs. Negro Boy Isaac Cork
petition
21 February 1855; petition 27 February 1855; indenture 1853; expenses,
n.d.; order of the court 21 February 1855; order of the court 27
February
1855 Slave runs away from master, absent for more than two months at a
time; court grants authority to sell term of service MSA SC 4239-18-31
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Mary Jane Wilson vs. Arminta petition 7 May
1855; expenses 7 August 1855; extract of Robert Hall's will 7 August
1855
Apprenticed black runs away MSA SC 4239-18-32
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] George M. Hiss vs. Negro Caroline petition
5 September 1855; bill of sale 23 February 1855 Slave apprenticed for a
number of years runs away MSA SC 4239-18-33
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of William E. Grimes petition 2
October
1855; order of the court 2 October 1855 Guardian asks to sell an
unmanageable
female slave being "apprehensive she may abscond" MSA SC 4239-18-34
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Hezekiah Linthicum vs. Ann Marie Carter
petition
6 November 1855; answer 13 November 1855 Free woman of color
apprentices
her infant child to a white man so when he grows up he can learn the
"art
and mystery of a farmer"; when he grows up he leaves and suit is
brought
MSA SC 4239-18-35
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Estate of Rosebay Carr Petition of John
Coates
20 November 1855 Estate administrator seeks to sell slaves MSA SC
4239-18-36
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] James M. Brannon vs. Negro Uriah petition
15
April 1856; bill of sale 10 January 1856; order of the court 15 April
1856
Brannon owned slave-for-a-term-of-years Uriah Young but slave
"exhibited
bad and vicious habits, refusing to obey orders, or do work"; plaintiff
was authorized to sell slave out of the state MSA SC 4239-18-37
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Charles T. Cockey vs. Louisa Harris
petition
29 April 1856; order of the court 30 April 1856 Cockey seeks to sell
twenty-year-old
mulatto Louisa Harris "a slave for a Term of Years whose conduct he
alleges
is notoriously vicious & turbulent and dangerous to the safety
of himself
and family"; court ordered sale "beyond the limits of the State of
Maryland"
MSA SC 4239-18-38
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of John Bosley petition 14 May
1856;
order of the court 14 May 1856 Seeks to sell Negro George, a runaway;
court
ordered extension of service for one year--to December 1880-- and said
George could be sold to persons in the state MSA SC 4239-18-39
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] In the Matter of Frances Cullison petition
5 August 1856; indenture 29 July 1856 Free Negro mother Eliza Cullison
seeks to apprentice her six year old daughter Frances to Mrs. Maria
Saunders
of Baltimore; the father was dead MSA SC 4239-18-40
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Andrew A. Lynch vs. Negro William petition
[7] October 1856; indenture 4 December 1855; order of the court 8
October
1856 Slave for a term of years runs away and is captured; owners seeks
to extend the period of enslavement and to sell him out of state; term
extended six months and permission to sell William in or out of state
granted
MSA SC 4239-18-41
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of Frances B. Eoff petition 24
October
1856; indenture of apprentice 23 October 1856; order of the court 28
October
1856 Orphan Negro boy John Henry Doman was acquiring "bad habits,
&
is likely to become a nuisance to the neighbourhood"; he drank to
excess
and had recently been arrested as a runaway slave; in need of a
guardian,
the petitioner asked the court "to bind out said boy to some
responsible
person" excluding his free Negro aunt who was destitute MSA SC
4239-18-42
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] William Glenn vs. John Bacon, Negro
petition
17 June 1857; order of the court 17 June 1857 Glenn acquired unexpired
term of black apprentice MSA SC 4239-18-43
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Estate of John H. Carroll petition of
Matilda
E. Carroll 14 July 1857; order of the court 14 July 1857
Slave-for-term-of-years
Jim was "very insubordinate and unmanageable" and petitioner feared
that
"his evil example" would influence other slaves belonging to the
estate;
Jim should be sold MSA SC 4239-18-44
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Estate of Charlotte C.D. Owings petition 8
December 1857; petition 24 November 1857; order of the court 8 December
1857 Negroes over age fourteen in above estate were manumitted; those
under
that age should not be sold until they reached that age; in the
meantime
petitioners asked court to sell the time of the "infant Negroes" MSA SC
4239-18-45
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Joshua Zimmerman vs. Negro apprentice
petition
8 December 1857; order of the court 15 January 1856; indenture 1856;
order
of the court 8 December 1857; order of the court 24 March 1858; order
of
the court 27 November 1858 Black apprentice Isaac Smithers absconds and
it is costly to retrieve him; term of indenture should be extended; in
March 1858 term extended six months; November 1858 sale authorized MSA
SC 4239-18-46
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of Nicholas C. Carroll petition 23
December 1857 Man puts up $50,000 security bond for executrix of a
large
estate, but says the woman should put up additional security because
"she
is neveretheless incapable, as a woman, of exercising the sound
judgment
& business qualifications so necessary" to manage the estate
MSA SC
4239-18-47
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Emanuel N. Carr vs. Negro Boy Abraham
Wormey
petition 6 January 1858; indenture 28 December 1853; order of the court
6 January 1858; order of the court 12 January 1858 Indentured blacks
absconds;
term sold to William Francis of Kent County MSA SC 4239-18-48
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Joshua M. Bosley vs. Thomas E. Skinner
petition
13 January 1858; order of the court 13 January 1858; court order 13
January
1858; order of the court 14 January 1858; receipt for arrest 12 January
1858 receipt for housing Skinner in city jail 12 January 1858; order of
the court 2 March 1858 Apprentice Thomas E. Skinner "absconded from his
service"; unexpired service sold MSA SC 4239-18-49
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of Joshua Zimmerman petition 23
March
1858; deposition of Lewis Lehman 22 March 1858 Slave runs away, finds
work
with Lehman posing as a free person--"Negro boy came to deponents House
and represented himself to be a Free boy, and lived with a certain Mr.
Jamison at Powhattan Factory. . ." MSA SC 4239-18-50
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of Dr. Waheman Bryarly petition 1
June 1858 Master "long ago notified said Henry of the existence and
effect
of the Acts of Assembly 1833 ch. 224 and 1845 ch. 105, and has warned
him
that the Court would extend his term of service, & order him to
be
sold out of the state" but the twenty year old slave who would be freed
at age thirty five continued to run away; master asked that the slave
term
be extended and the slave sold out of state MSA SC 4239-18-51
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Carville S. Stansbury vs. Negro Nathaniel
petition
14 July 1858; answer [July 1858]; order of the court 20 July 1858;
order
of the court 10 August 1858; order of the court 31 August 1858
Stansbury
was the owner and master of sixteen-year-old Nathaniel for a term of
nineteen
years but the slave ran away twice and subjected him to "a large
expense";
authorized to sell "service of said negro boy" in or out of the state;
last order of the court added two years to the term of service to begin
"from and after the period at which the said boy would be free by the
terms
of the last will and testament of Tobias E. Stansbury, his late owner"
MSA SC 4239-18-52
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Thomas Biddison vs. Negro Henry Stockler
petition
3 August 1858; order of the court 3 August 1858 Master asks to extend
the
period of service for his apprentice; court added two years to service
MSA SC 4239-18-53
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of Emanuel C. Wade petition 15
February
1859; circuit court docket entries 5 January 1859; order of the court
15
February 1859 Free Negro Emily Taylor was purchased by Wade "at the
sale
of free negroes" (a recent 1858 state law permitted the sale of free
blacks
convicted of larceny, burglary, etc. as slaves) but her master was
"unable
to make her work and do the service due a master from his slave"; term
extended and permission for sale granted MSA SC 4239-18-54
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of James H. Luckett petition 8
March
1859 Plaintiff seeks to sell servant out of state MSA SC 4239-18-55
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] George H. Carman vs. Richard Fortie
petition
29 March 1859; circuit court docket entries 30 March 1859; order of the
court 30 March 1859; order of the court 16 November 1859 Free Negro who
had been sentenced to serve three years as a slave for "stealing Check"
was sold, along with other free Negroes convicted of larceny or other
crimes,
but stole his new master's horse, saddle, and bridle before being
caught
and jailed; petitioner asked to sell Fortie; term extended one year,
and
sale authorized MSA SC 4239-18-56
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of Dichmina Enoch petition 24 May
1859; order of the court 24 May 1859 Owner asked that slave Jane Dixon,
who was "notoriously vicious and turbulent" be sold "beyond the limits
of the state"; permission granted MSA SC 4239-18-57
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] John Prentice vs. George Woods petition 31
May 1859; indenture 1850; order of the court 31 May 1859 Petitioner
seeks
to sell unexpired term of apprentice; permission granted MSA SC
4239-18-58
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of Thomas H. Mayness petition 31
May
1859 Master seeks to extend term of service of runaway apprentice MSA
SC
4239-18-59
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] James H. Luckett vs. Dennis Williams
petition
29 June 1859; order of the court 20 July 1859 Master seeks sale of
runaway
servant "within or without this state"; term of service extended six
months
and permission for sale granted MSA SC 4239-18-60
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] George Harryman vs. Negro Abraham petition
12 July 1859; order of the court 12 July 1859 Servant with four more
years
of servitude places himself in the county jail "alledging his
dissatisfaction
and unwillingness to remain in my service"; would subject himself to
being
sold out of state; authorized to "sell and dispose of him" MSA SC
4239-18-61
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] John N. Liles vs. Eliza Brannan petition 3
August 1859 Plaintiff asks for bill of sale for service of Negro man
named
John Adams MSA SC 4239-18-62
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] John N. Liles vs. Negro John Adams petition
7 September 1859; order of the court 7 September 1859 Master seeks to
extend
the term of servant who would gain his freedom 1 June 1873 when he was
forty-six; court orders a two year extension MSA SC 4239-18-63
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Estate of John N. Carroll petition of
Matilda
E. Carroll 13 September 1859; order of the court 13 September 1859
Negro
boy Jim, age twenty six, ran away several times; he "has taken upon
himself
to hire himself whenever he chooses so to do, without the consent or
Knowledge
of your petitioner"; his servitude would end at age forty, but master
wishes
to sell servant; court directed sale "until the time when he shall
attain
the age of 40 years" MSA SC 4239-18-64
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] William C. Ghent vs. Negro Slave Amelia
petition
26 October 1859 Nineteen year old Amelia who would be free at age
thirty-two
ran away three times; because of much "loss & expense" master
asks
to sell servant out of the state MSA SC 4239-18-65
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] George H. Carman vs. Richard Fortie
petition
15 November 1859 Asks court to extend the time of servitude of by two
years
MSA SC 4239-18-66
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] John B. Armstrong vs. Joe Robinson petition
7 December 1859; indenture 1852; court proceedings 6 November 1856;
order
of the court 7 December 1859; order of the court 28 February 1860
Master
seeks to extend term of service MSA SC 4239-18-67
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Edward Stiefel vs. James Batsen petition 24
January 1860; order of the court 24 January 1860 Master seeks to
transfer
apprentice; authorized MSA SC 4239-18-68
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of John H. Toffling petition 18
April
1860; copy of court order 7 June 1858; indenture 1854 Master seeks
extension
of indenture term MSA SC 4239-18-69
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] William W. Glenn vs. John Bacon petition of
William W. Glenn 7 August 1860; petition of William W. Glenn 9 October
1860; deposition 3 February 1860; order of the court 7 August 1860;
order
of the court 16 October 1860 Runaway John Bacon was jailed in
Westminster
but escaped; jailed in Baltimore County but escaped; arrested in
Baltimore
County; it cost Glenn $25, $18, and $15 to capture runaway, plus
additional
expenses; Glenn asks for a two year extension on service MSA SC
4239-18-70
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] John H. Butler vs. Jarrett Woodyear
petition
and order 4 September 1860; order of the court 4 September 1860 Butler
purchased Woodyear at a sheriff's sale for a term of eighteen months,
"induced
to buy him by the request of said Woodyear," who promptly ran away with
several "articles" of Butler's property; eighteen additional months
added
to the term of indenture; permission for sale granted MSA SC 4239-18-71
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of Catherine A. Johnston petition
11 September 1860; indenture 23 June 1857 Indentured free Negro Charles
Turner "repeatedly expressed his determination not to live with your
Petitioner"
MSA SC 4239-18-72
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Henry H. Ducker vs John W. Tucker petition
13 November 1860; order of the court 7 August 1860; order of the court
13 November 1860 Ducker seeks to extend the term of apprentice "Negro
boy
John Wesley Watkins" for running away MSA SC 4239-18-73
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Robert Mills vs. Francis Barringer Petition
of Robert Mills (Colored Apprentice) 15 November 1860 Black apprentice
complains about ill treatment from Barringer "or his certain servants
or
Employe"; fearing for his life he requested that the court "provide him
a new master" MSA SC 4239-18-74
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of Frederick Elterman petition 12
February 1861 Extend length of service of servant MSA SC 4239-18-75
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Juliet A. Turner vs. Mary Rebecca Henson
petition
9 April 1861; order of the court 9 April 1861 Though "Kindly treated",
Henson, a slave for a term of years, ran away; Turner requests sale;
granted
MSA SC 4239-18-76
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] James S.S. Linthicum vs. Arrant S.Jones
petition
21 May 1861; order of the court 21 May 1861 Apprentice Jones absconds;
Linthicum seeks extension of service; extension granted MSA SC
4239-18-77
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] John Timanus vs. Cosmore Robinson petition
1 June 1861; petition 12 November 1861; order of the court June 1861;
order
of the court 20 November 1861 Slave-for-term-of-years (until 1867)
Robinson,
a runaway, was "of a surly, morose and discontented disposition",
"greatly
dissatisified
with his state of servitude"; petitioner asked for permission to sell
him;
permission granted, but was unable to sell Robinson; November petition
asked for an extension of his servitude; sale authorized MSA SC
4239-18-78
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Arrant Jones vs. James Linthicum petition
of
Arrant S. Jones, free Negro 19 June 1861; deposition of Mary Ann Mann
10
July 1861 Apprentice Jones says he was supposed to be free at age
twenty-one
on December 9, 1861, but was being illegally held; requested court to
cancel
his indenture of apprenticeship MSA SC 4239-18-79
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] James Wilson vs. Isaac Smuthers petition 30
October 1861; order of the court 30 October 1861 The "Pertision" to
"the
Oneable orpants court" of Baltimore told of an habitual runaway, who
absconded
on seven different occasions, and was absent "3 months & 18
days excluson
of the 4 months Sick and unable to worke"; court extended service one
year
MSA SC 4239-18-80
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Charles Rice vs. Charles Cole petition 15
April
1862 Runaway apprentice; permission to sell MSA SC 4239-18-81
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Hugh Horner vs. Ann Powell Cocky Dye
petition
9 July 1862 Ann Powell Cocky Dye, a slave for a term of one year, ran
away
for a week in August 1861, and for nearly two months in March 1862;
petitioner
asked to be "indemnified for all expenses and loss occasioned by such
absconding"
MSA SC 4239-18-82
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Francis Sparks vs. Elizabeth Given petition
27 August 1862 Apprentice was "incorigible, and of ill behavior, to the
evil example of other children belonging to your petitioner, and your
Petitioner
is therefore desirous of being rid of her"; asked that indentures be
canceled
MSA SC 4239-18-83
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] John O. Price vs. George Washington Wilson
petition 1 August 1863; order of the court 1 September 1863 Price seeks
to extend service of Negro man Wilson because he ran away and cost him
ninety dollars; term extended and sale authorized MSA SC 4239-18-84
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of John S. Curtis and William
Curtis
petition 25 August 1863 Estate executor seeks to sell property "negroes
excepted" MSA SC 4239-18-85
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Alexander Scott et al. vs. Robert Royston
petition
7 January 1863 Plaintiff questions whether Isaac Howard, a Negro who
allegedly
wrote a will, was in truth a slave MSA SC 4239-18-86
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of Administratrix of Richard
Sewell
petition 25 February 1863 Estate administratrix seeks to sell property
MSA SC 4239-18-87
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of Benjamin Worthington 21 March
1863
Negro Wilmer ran away in 1861, 1862, and 1863; petitioner seeks to
extend
service MSA SC 4239-18-88
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Petition of John O. Price petition 29 July
1863 Price seeks to extend service of Negro Wilson MSA SC 4239-18-89
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] Thomas Pearce vs. Caroline Swan petition
May
1864; answer 7 June 1864 Petitioner claims estate of Negro Charles Swan
who died and left his estate to petitioner's slave MSA SC 4239-18-90
* BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T1206-449] John Norris vs. James Rampley petition [7]
March 1865; order 29 March 1865 Father seeks return of his apprenticed
son but case is dismissed MSA SC 4239-18-91
msa_sc_4239_m11019
* CAROLINE COUNTY COURT (Court Papers)
[C491-3]
Bayard Davis vs. George White (Negro) MSA SC 4239-19-1
* CARROLL COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA T1591-1-8]
William Chenowith vs. David Ebaugh bill 14 July 1837; [injunction] 20
July
1837 Agents, assistants, hirelings, and servants of Ebaugh cut wood on
Chenowith's land MSA SC 4239-20-1
* CARROLL COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T1591-1-47]
Catherine Biggs vs. Daniel Poole bill 2 September 1839; injunction 2
September
1839 Devisee of husband's will sold slaves to "foreign purchasers"
despite
opposition of wife MSA SC 4239-20-2
* CARROLL COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T1591-2-88]
John Roboson petition 1841; exhibit A, Elihah Roboson's will 19
November
1840; commission to sheriff 1 April 1841; petition of John Roboson 5
April
1842 Son of large slaveholder seeks to have mother declared insane MSA
SC 4239-20-3
* CARROLL COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T1591-3-172]
James Smith, admin of John Robosson, vs Joshua H. Shipley bill in
equity
21 November 1845; certified extract of inventory 21 November 1845;
decree
2 December 1845 Administrator seeks quick division of slaves MSA SC
4239-20-4
* CARROLL COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T1591-4-201]
Case of Helen Woolery bill of sale 31 May 1843; petition of Elijah
Woolery
21 September 1846; petition of William Oursler 7 December 1846; order 8
April 1847; report of Stephen Oursler 10 July 1848 Disposition of
insane
slaveowner's estate; one of her slaves, Rosanna Diggs, promised freedom
in 1855 MSA SC 4239-20-5
* CARROLL COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T1591-5-312-1]
Peter Baile and Ludwick Baile vs. Levin Devilbiss, admin. bill 13
November
1850; exhibit DW, plat and certificate, 13 November 1850; trustees
report
of sale 12 July 1852 Deposition of real estate of Lloyd Moales whose
widow
and children "are all slaves for life" and not legal heirs to the
estate
MSA SC 4239-20-6
* CARROLL COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T1591-8-423]
Jacob Mathias vs. Solomon Hillen bill 12 May 1851; answer 11 May 1851;
power of attorney 22 August 1853; docket entries 24 January 1854
Bequest
of slave owner to slave mother and daughter MSA SC 4239-20-7
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [S512-2] 2 James
Anderson, Jr. vs. Richard Tucker MSA SC 4239-5-1
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-24] 24
Henry Anderson vs. John Perrie et al. MSA SC 4239-5-2
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-530] 478
Edward Brown vs. Thomas Cockey et al. MSA SC 4239-5-3
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-639] 607
William Beanes vs. John S. Brookes MSA SC 4239-5-4
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-728] 704
Samuel C. Brown vs. Nathan Deale MSA SC 4239-5-5
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-769] 748
Noble Butler vs. Henry Oneal Welch MSA SC 4239-5-6
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-800] 771
Joseph Camden et al. vs. John Scrivener and John Whittington MSA SC
4239-5-7
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-803] 774
Richard Cheney vs Richard Snowden MSA SC 4239-5-8
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-824] 795
John Chalmers vs Nicholas Maccubbin MSA SC 4239-5-9
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-833] 805
John Colsten and Alice Colsten vs. Hugh Orem et al. MSA SC 4239-5-10
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-839] 809A
Charles Carroll of Carrollton vs. Elizabeth Chew MSA SC 4239-5-11
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-930] 894
Petition of George Medcalf MSA SC 4239-5-12
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1025] 982
Walter Clagett vs. Stephen Lee MSA SC 4239-5-13
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1133] 1058
David Carcaud vs. William Whittington MSA SC 4239-5-14
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1153] 1079
Walter Clagett and Cornelia Lansdale vs. Thomas Lyles MSA SC 4239-5-15
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1158] 1084
David Carcaud vs. Thomas Marlow Dorsett MSA SC 4239-5-16
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1228] 1161
Richard Chenowith vs. Jacob Eichelberger MSA SC 4239-5-17
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1240] 1173
Mary Curran and Barney vs. John Whittington et al. MSA SC 4239-5-18
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1250] 1181
Ann S.Camden and John S. Camden vs. Dr. Samuel Lukens MSA SC 4239-5-19
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1291] 1223
Elizabeth Courtenay vs. James Bryden and Violet Bhenn MSA SC 4239-5-20
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1544] 1480
Estate of Richard Darnall MSA SC 4239-5-21
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1621] 1549
John Duvall vs. Thomas Gantt and John M. Gantt MSA SC 4239-5-22
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1657] 1590
Daniel Dulany vs. John Bailey et al. MSA SC 4239-5-23
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1687] 1618
Joseph Evans vs. Hamilton White et al. MSA SC 4239-5-24
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1718] 1649
Rezin Estep et al. vs. Charles Drury of William MSA SC 4239-5-25
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1730] 1661
Rezin Estep vs. John H. Brown and Agnes Brown MSA SC 4239-5-26
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1760] 1689
Peter Emmerson vs Philip Dorsey and Benjamin Hance MSA SC 4239-5-27
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1778] 1706A
Peterson Emerson vs. Richard Chew MSA SC 4239-5-28
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1228] 1738
Robert Franklin vs. John Deale MSA SC 4239-5-29
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1841] 1763
Robert Ferguson vs. Samuel Cleland and John Gwinn MSA SC 4239-5-30
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-1926] 1860
Elizabeth Forbes and James Forbes vs. James H. Baynes et al. MSA SC
4239-5-33
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2132] 2064
Job Garretson vs. William Hollis MSA SC 4239-5-34
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2172] 2102
Frederick Grammer vs. Jonathan Pinkney et al. MSA SC 4239-5-35
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2198] 2128
Ephraim Gaither vs. Richard Weaver Johns MSA SC 4239-5-36
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2206] 2136
Samuel Grahame vs. Larkin Shipley MSA SC 4239-5-37
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2391] 2301
Ephraim Howard and Joshua Howard vs. Elizabeth Rumney et al. MSA SC
4239-5-38
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2500] 2412
Runyon Harris and Josias Green vs. George W. Todd et al. MSA SC
4239-5-39
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2525] 2437
Thomas Heron vs. Christopher Orndorff MSA SC 4239-5-40
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2544] 2457
Philip Hall vs. Samuel Norwood MSA SC 4239-5-41
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2571] 2483
Job Garretson vs. George Helm MSA SC 4239-5-42
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2657] 2578
Thomas Hyde vs. Sarah Ball and John Johnson MSA SC 4239-5-43
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2718] 2644
Henry S. Holland and Susan Holland vs. John Tydings MSA SC 4239-5-44
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2722] 2648
Hester Hood vs. John Compton Weems MSA SC 4239-5-45
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2732] 2662
Rezin Hammond and Philip Hammond vs. John Davis et al. MSA SC 4239-5-46
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2801] 2734
Elizabeth Hodges vs. Johnson Michael O'Reily et al. MSA SC 4239-5-47
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2826] 2759
Dr. Daniel Jenifer vs. John Campbell MSA SC 4239-5-48
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-2842] 2764
Samuel Jay vs. Hannah Boyce MSA SC 4239-5-49
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-3002] 2918
Gibson Keadle and slave John vs. Ninian T. Willett MSA SC 4239-5-50
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-3100] 3016
John Livingston et al. vs. John Laird et al. MSA SC 4239-5-51
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-3362] 3267
Enoch Medley vs. Thomas Billingsley MSA SC 4239-5-52
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-3579] 3472
John Miles vs. James Earle Denny et al. MSA SC 4239-5-53
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-3604] 3497
Dorothy Jordan and John Nesbit Jordan vs. Reuben Merriweather MSA SC
4239-5-54
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-3776] 3660
Thomas Marshall and John Forbes vs. Henderson S. Boteler and Susan G.
Boteler
ì MSA SC 4239-5-55
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [S512-4133] 4015
Anthony Smith et al. vs. Robert Williams or Negro Bob MSA SC 4239-5-56
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-4273] 4149
Jonathan Pinkney vs. John B. Weems MSA SC 4239-5-57
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-4383] 4261
Charles Reynolds vs. Jeremiah Orme MSA SC 4239-5-58
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-4384] 4262
William Russell vs. Belt Norwood and Elijah Gaither MSA SC 4239-5-59
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-4399] 4277
George Riley vs. William Worthington et al. MSA SC 4239-5-60
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-4473] 4334A
Sarah Doncastle and Elizabeth Doncastle vs. Thomas How Ridgate et al.
MSA
SC 4239-5-61
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-4491] 4352
Charles Ridgely of Hampton vs. Mary Nicholson et al. MSA SC 4239-5-62
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-4737] 4568
Andrew Scott and Pricilla Scott vs. John Hay MSA SC 4239-5-63
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-4957] 4793
Fielder B. Smith vs. Enoch M. Burgess MSA SC 4239-5-64
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5044] 4892
Stephen Steward vs. Adam Allen MSA SC 4239-5-65
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5128] 4982
John Steel vs. Sarah Davis MSA SC 4239-5-66
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5298] 5164
Eleanor M. Tillard vs. Samuel W. Hamilton MSA SC 4239-5-67
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5352] 5222
John R. Thomas and Ann C. Thomas vs. Henry Wesley et al. MSA SC
4239-5-68
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5528] 5404
Negro Anna by William Williams vs. Jonathan Woodburn MSA SC 4239-5-69
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5545] 5423
Charles Wallace and Eleanor Davidson vs. Charles Mankin MSA SC
4239-5-70
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5573] 5452
Richard William Wells vs. Alexander Duvall and Zadoc Duvall MSA SC
4239-5-71
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5631] 5512
James White vs. Nancy Snowden et al. MSA SC 4239-5-72
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5705] 5593
Jonathan Waters et al. vs. Gassaway Rawlings et al. MSA SC 4239-5-73
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5720] 5608
Thomas Warfield of Caleb et al. vs. Anderson Warfield MSA SC 4239-5-74
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5785] 5673
Thomas Jones Waters vs. Marsh M. Duvall et al. MSA SC 4239-5-75
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5786] 5674
Henry O'Neal Welch vs. Leonard Wayman MSA SC 4239-5-76
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5837] 5728
William Weems vs. David Weems MSA SC 4239-5-77
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5852] 5746
Thomas Williams vs. Samuel C. Watkins MSA SC 4239-5-78
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-5859] 5754
John Spriggs et al. MSA SC 4239-5-79
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery
Papers) [S512-5966] 5880
John Young vs. Richard Coale MSA SC 4239-5-80
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6062] 5976
Jeremiah Alvey vs. Richard Payne MSA SC 4239-5-81
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6110] 6024
Thomas Allein et al. vs. Joseph G. Hutton et al MSA SC 4239-5-82
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6190] 6107
Henry H. Brown vs. Robert Stewart et al. MSA SC 4239-5-83
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6207] 6124
Sarah H. Bowie vs. Peter A. Bowie MSA SC 4239-5-84
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6305] 6233
William Bryan vs. John Miller et al. MSA SC 4239-5-85
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6371] 6305
Thomas Burch et al. vs. William Scott MSA SC 4239-5-86
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6397] 6333
Nicholas Brewer vs. Nicholas Brewer, Jr., et al. MSA SC 4239-5-87
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6594] 6536
Robert L. Buckley vs. John Kean and Richard Lee MSA SC 4239-5-88
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6654] 6597
Francis Brashears vs. Ephraim W. Hall et al. MSA SC 4239-5-89
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6729] 6679
Harriet A. Beard vs. John H. Linthicum MSA SC 4239-5-90
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6763] 6715
Kenelm G. Cheseldine vs. Clarissa Thomas et al. MSA SC 4239-5-91
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6775] 6727
Ann S. Chaney vs. Joseph H. Nicholson MSA SC 4239-5-92
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6822] 6777
Thomas F. Chiswell and Joseph N. Chiswell vs. John A. Leonard et al.
MSA
SC 4239-5-93
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-6949] 6907
Maria Antoniette Coper vs. James D. Ashley and Josiah Ashley MSA SC
4239-5-94
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7068] 7029
Thomas Clagett et al vs. Nicholas G. Watkins and Joseph Allein MSA SC
4239-5-95
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7135] 7100
Peter W. Crain vs. Thomas Bruce et al. MSA SC 4239-5-96
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7171] 7138
Moses O.B. Cawood et al. vs. Richard Hopkins MSA SC 4239-5-97
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7292] 7264
William Carroll et al. vs. William Dudley Digges MSA SC 4239-5-98
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7502] 7481
Grafton Duvall vs. Richard Kelly MSA SC 4239-5-99
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7554] 7538
James Kent and Daniel Kent vs. Richard S. Rawlings MSA SC 4239-5-100
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7596] 7586
Richard Deale and Samuel H. Whittington vs. Samuel Deale MSA SC
4239-5-101
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7609] 7600
Benjamin Dent, Jr. vs. Catherine Mason et al. MSA SC 4239-5-102
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7615] 7608
Henry Darnall andDorothy Midkiff vs. Thomas Joyce and Austin Woolfolk
MSA
SC 4239-5-103
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7621] 7616
Ann Davis vs. Thomas B. Gibbons et al. MSA SC 4239-5-104
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7648] 7645
Richard Estep et al. vs. Thomas Taneyhill MSA SC 4239-5-105
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7686] 7683
Joseph Evans and James Iglehart vs. Joseph E. Merriken et al. MSA SC
4239-5-106
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7704] 7702
Rezin Estep vs. William P. Hardesty and Harriet Hardesty MSA SC
4239-5-107
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7786] 7787
Edward L. Fant and Lewis Sutton vs. Alexander Harris MSA SC 4239-5-108
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7830] 7831
Martin Fenwick vs. Thomas Allein MSA SC 4239-5-109
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7906] 7910
Stephen Faris vs. Solomon Lowe MSA SC 4239-5-110
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-7911] 7915
Robert H. Fleury vs. Lyne Shakelford MSA SC 4239-5-111
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8070] 8084
David T. Hyde et al. vs. Dennis Claude MSA SC 4239-5-112
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8223] 8238
Thomas Gibbs vs. Elizabeth Clagett and Richard H. Clagett MSA SC
4239-5-113
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8230] 8247
James J. Gray vs. James Williams and Elizabeth Williams MSA SC
4239-5-114
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8271] 8292
Mary E. Hill andAlexander P. Hill vs. Richard O. Bowling and Elizabeth
Bowling MSA SC 4239-5-115
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8282] 8303
George Hamilton vs. Sarah Wilmot et al. MSA SC 4239-5-116
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8299] 8320
Levi T. Hughes vs Marcellus Jones MSA SC 4239-5-117
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8328] 8350
Laura L.B. Hutchins vs. Martha B. Fowler and Hop L. Slatter MSA SC
4239-5-118
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8333] 8355
Edward House vs. Nicholas Owens MSA SC 4239-5-119
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8352] 8375
Nathaniel B. Hill vs. Thomas W. Overly et al. MSA SC 4239-5-120
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8383] 8408
Richard Hance vs. James G. Alnutt MSA SC 4239-5-121
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8454] 8483
Henry T. Houck vs. Eleanora Houck MSA SC 4239-5-122
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8586] 8633
Daniel Hart and George E. Franklin vs. James B. Smith MSA SC 4239-5-123
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8623] 8671
John Haslip vs. Dixon Brown and William Haslip MSA SC 4239-5-124
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8614] 8672
James Harper vs. Dennis Boyd MSA SC 4239-5-125
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8641] 8689
Benjamin M. Heighe vs. Benjamin Mackall and James J. Mackall MSA SC
4239-5-126
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8692] 8745
William Hall et al. vs. Sarah Woodfield MSA SC 4239-5-127
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8727] 8782
George W. Higgins et al. vs. James Higgins MSA SC 4239-5-128
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8816] 8875
Leonard Iglehart vs. Isaac H. Hopkins et al. MSA SC 4239-5-129
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8852] 8911
John W. Jones et al. vs. Thomas Byus et al. MSA SC 4239-5-130
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-8922] 8982
Abraham Jones et al. vs. Henry Culver MSA SC 4239-5-131
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9134] 9207
James Kent vs. Michael C. Sparrow et al. MSA SC 4239-5-132
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9142] 9216
Elizabeth Jenkinset al. vs. Sandy Linstead and Thomas Heath MSA SC
4239-5-133
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9151] 9226
John L. Lancaster et al. vs. Walter Jameson et al. MSA SC 4239-5-134
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9222] 9302
James B.C. Latimer vs. Walter Latimer MSA SC 4239-5-135
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9254] 9337
Thomas Layton vs. William Collison MSA SC 4239-5-136
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9290] 9373
Edward H.C. Long vs. Henry K. Long MSA SC 4239-5-137
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9308] 9392
George W. Lawrence and Enoch Sheckell vs. Richard W. Gill et al. MSA SC
4239-5-138
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9425] 9511
William H. Marriott et al. vs. John H. Brown MSA SC 4239-5-139
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9472] 9560
George W. Matthews et al vs. William D. Merrick MSA SC 4239-5-140
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9623] 9718
Elizabeth Montgomery vs. Ignatius H. Hagan MSA SC 4239-5-141
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9655] 9755
John B. Hanson et al. vs. Josias H. Hanson MSA SC 4239-5-142
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9706] 9809
Samuel Moale vs. William McMechen et al. MSA SC 4239-5-143
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9735] 9839
Dennis Magruder, Jr. vs. Dennis Magruder MSA SC 4239-5-144
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9846] 9954
Nathaniel W. Maddox vs. Mary Moreland MSA SC 4239-5-145
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9895] 10003
Rebecca Nelson vs. Joshua Hitch MSA SC 4239-5-146
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-9975] 10087
John Osborne et al. vs. Jeremiah Perry and Joshua Osborne MSA SC
4239-5-147
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,009]
10126 Samuel Owings vs. Basil Warfield MSA SC 4239-5-148
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,156]
10287 Ignatius Pike and Alexander Penn vs. Robert B. Chew MSA SC
4239-5-149
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery
Papers) [S512-10,178] 10309
Virginia Polk vs. William Williams MSA SC 4239-5-150
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,206]
10337 Rinaldo Pindell vs. Alexander Duvall MSA SC 4239-5-151
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,311]
10451 Planters Bank of Prince George's County vs. John R. Magruder MSA
SC 4239-5-152
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,399]
10540 William Rea vs. James Wallace and Anne Cook MSA SC 4239-5-153
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,494]
10645 Benjamin M. Ruley and Sarah E. Ruley vs. Noble Pennington MSA SC
4239-5-154
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,552]
10705 Horace Roby and Mary Roby vs. Peter Griffin MSA SC 4239-5-155
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,634]
10788 James C. Sellman and Francis A. Crook vs. Robert Baker et al. MSA
SC 4239-5-156
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,719]
10874 Mary Shipley vs Thomas C. Worthington and Isaac C. Worthington
MSA
SC 4239-5-157
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,813]
10970 Enoch Sheckell vs. Samuel Thomas et al. MSA SC 4239-5-158
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,818]
10975 Charles Smallwood et al. vs. Levi Chaney and Providence Chaney
MSA
SC 4239-5-159
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,854]
11011 William Stewart vs. Thomas H. Wilkinson MSA SC 4239-5-160
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,873]
11030 Charles R. Stewart vs. Joseph Evans, Negro Nick, and Catherine
Stewart
MSA SC 4239-5-161
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,949]
11104 Francis Sappington and Richard Dorsey vs. Elizabeth Dorsey MSA SC
4239-5-162
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-10,953]
11110 Gideon White et al. vs. Salbrit Journey MSA SC 4239-5-163
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,048]
11213 Richard H. Stuart vs Thomas Mundell et al. MSA SC 4239-5-164
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,182]
11357 Levi L. Tayman vs. John Mitchell et al. MSA SC 4239-5-165
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,302]
11474 William Thompson vs. Jonathan Weedon MSA SC 4239-5-166
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,305]
11477 Susanna Thompson vs. Alexander Wise and Richard Mills MSA SC
4239-5-167
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,324]
11496 John Thomas and James Cheston vs. George McNeir MSA SC 4239-5-168
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,381]
11553 John R. Thomas and Ann Catherine Thomas vs. Henry Wesley et al.
MSA
SC ì 4239-5-169
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,403]
11576 Martha Turner vs. Thomas Turner MSA SC 4239-5-170
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,423]
11600 John Talbott vs. Robert Jamison MSA SC 4239-5-171
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,440]
11617 James Tongue vs. Bennett Sollers MSA SC 4239-5-172
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,617]
11793 Harrison H. Webb et al vs Mary Ridgely and Savings Bank of
Baltimore
MSA SC 4239-5-173
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,709]
11885 Rebecca Whittington vs. Richard G. Mackall et al. MSA SC
4239-5-174
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,725]
11901 Augustus Watkins et al. vs. Thomas J. Dorsett MSA SC 4239-5-175
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,731]
11907 Wilson Waters and Ramsay Waters vs. Thomas Gibbs and Andrew Coyle
MSA SC 4239-5-176
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,757]
11933 Warner W. Warfield vs. Warner Welch MSA SC 4239-5-177
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,923]
12105 Thomas Watkins vs. John Wells et al. MSA SC 4239-5-178
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,926]
12108 Sarah Warfield vs. Charles Warfield MSA SC 4239-5-179
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,960]
12144 Nicholas J. Watkins vs. Rickard Loockerman MSA SC 4239-5-180
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-11,984]
12169 Anderson Warfield vs. William Warfield et al. MSA SC 4239-5-181
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-12,021]
12207 Horace Willson vs. John Braddock et al. MSA SC 4239-5-182
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-12,061]
12251 Charles Waters and Jacob Waters vs. Ephraim Marriott MSA SC
4239-5-183
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-12,151]
12346 Joseph S. Willson vs. Aaron Patridge MSA SC 4239-5-184
* CHANCERY COURT(Chancery Papers)
[S512-12.157]
12352 Ann W. Wood vs. William Stickland MSA SC 4239-5-185
* CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
[S512-12,196]
12393 Henry Nichols Young and George Washington Young vs. Edward Hurt
et
al. MSA SC 4239-5-186
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA T2154-1-169]
Sarah Wigfield vs Thomas Perry bill 17 August 1831 Perry took
possession
of Negroes Betty, Peter, Letty, and Harriet, by virtue of a fi fa
[writ],
and sold them. MSA SC 4239-21-1
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-1-184]
James G. Williams vs. John. H. Goley et al petition 22 May 1832;
interlocutory
decree 16 November 1833 Slaves mentioned in family dispute MSA SC
4239-21-2
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-1-194]
James Rowland et al. vs. William Roland petition March 1833; exhibit A
25 March 1833; petition of John Rowland et al. 6 June 1837; order March
1840 Family dispute over ownership of slaves; original owner died and
husband
of legatee accused of illegally retaining Negroes. MSA SC 4239-21-3
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-1-220]
Eleanor Stonestreet by Nicholas Stonestreet petition 19 December 1834
Estate
administrator seeks to sell real estate to pay off debts rather than
the
"negroes who are valuable & increasing annually" MSA SC
4239-21-4
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-1-233]
William Lyon vs. Johannas D. Stoke, admin bill 23 November 1835 An heir
to an estate seeks one-sixth part of deceased mother-in-law's estate
that
included"several young negroes" MSA SC 4239-21-5
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-1-241]
John Fergusson et al. vs. Daniel Jenifer bill 16 December 1834; decree
16 December 1834 Mortgaged slaves sold for debt MSA SC 4239-21-6
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-1-243]
Edward Sanders, admn. vs. Ferdinand F.Wood bill in equity 29 September
1835 Slave Nancy hired out"for a large price"; did not live with legal
owner and had not done so for several years MSA SC 4239-21-7
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-1-250]
John Spalding vs. Elizabeth A.Davis bill 25 August 1836; exhibit,
mortgage,
3 February 1832; answer 24 August 1841 Creditor seeks sale of mortgaged
slave MSA SC 4239-21-8
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-1-255]
Ignatius R. Dunnington et al. vs. Malinda M. Dunnington bill 25
November
1836 Dispute among heirs over distribution of slaves MSA SC 4239-21-9
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-1-274]
Francis Beavin and Sarah Beavin vs.William Cook et al. bill 7 September
1837 Case involving slaves of Sarah's father MSA SC 4239-21-10
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-2-302]
Thomas M. Simpson et al. vs. John Crismond bill 20 June 1840; decree 20
August 1842 Woman seeks to sell slaves MSA SC 4239-21-11
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-2-328]
John N. Nelson petition 19 June 1843; order 19 June 1843 Slave sold to
pay a portion of estate debt MSA SC 4239-21-12
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-2-339]
Louisa Holmes vs. William Holmes petition for divorce 12 August 1842;
petition
of Louisa Holmes 19 August 1842; property list 24 August 1842; order of
court 28 November 1842; decree 1 November 1844; auditor's report 25
November
1845; interrogation of witnesses 8 February 1843 MSA SC 4239-21-13
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-3-1]
Mary Speeden vs. Joseph A.Speeden petition for divorce 28 December
1843;
decree 18 March 1844 MSA SC 4239-21-14
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-3-37]
Edward V. Edelen, executor of Raphael Edelen vs. Jeremiah W. Burch bill
17 February 1846; bill 23 February 1846; order 17 March 1846 Executor
demands
sale of mortgaged slave Henrietta MSA SC 4239-21-15
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-3-39]
Francis R. Wills vs. James F. Neale bill 31 March 1846; deposition 27
March
1846 Slave named Alfred sold by son to father for $500 during the life
of father.Father died in 1845. Son seeks slave from executors of
father's
estate. MSA SC 4239-21-16
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-3-46]
Robert S. Reeder, trustee of Edward R.Wheeler bill [incorrectly
docketed
as "order"] 21 July 1846; receipt 31 July 1846 Trustee of estate
requests
funds from sale of slaves deposited in Mechanic's Bank of Baltimore MSA
SC 4239-21-17
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-3-54]
Patsey J. Brawner vs. Maria C. Brawner et al. bill of complaint 15
December
1846 Slave sold in District of Columbia to Negro traders against
owner's
wishes MSA SC 4239-21-18
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-3-62]
Anne B. Allen vs. Adeline Wedge bill inequity 24 February 1847; order
18
May 1847 Allen seeks payment of a 1839 judgment for $25 against the
heirs
of free black James Wedge who had died and left his family
"considerable
real property" MSA SC 4239-21-19
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-3-75]
Robert S. Reeder et al. vs. Catherine Golden et al. bill 20 December
1847;
decree 25 February 1851 Creditor seeks slaves as payment for debt MSA
SC
4239-21-20
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-3-78]
Robert S. Reeder, admn vs. Francis L. Boarman bill 3 March 1848; order
9 March 1848 Complainant seeks court order to prohibit defendant from
taking
"negro boy beyond the reach of complainant" while legal proceedings
were
taking place to determine ownership MSA SC 4239-21-21
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-3-79]
Robert S. Reeder, admn vs. Mary Boarman bill 3 March 1848; [court
order]
3 March 1848 Complainant charges that slave Emily kept "secreted" and
that
defendant planned to place her "beyond the reach" of complainant MSA SC
4239-21-22
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-4½104]
Ignatius Pike and Alexander Penn vs. John J. Hughes et al account of
sales
15 December 1848; account 22 February 1850; bill 8 July 1850; report of
administrators 3 June 1851 Sale of slaves following owner's death MSA
SC
4239-21-23
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-4-108]
William and Catherine Knight vs. John H.Nelson et al. account of sales
1 December 1840; bill 29 September 1849; decree 7 May 1850 Heir accuses
the executor of an estate of falsifying account with regard to sale of
slaves MSA SC 4239-21-24
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-4-109]
Richard H. Hebb vs. Elizabeth Matthews bill 4 October 1849 Negro woman
Sarah hired out because owners did not want sell her to divide profits,
but when one of the owners died, executors moved to sell Sarah and her
children MSA SC 4239-21-25
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-4-111]
Joseph Young et al. vs. Negroes Lye,Maria, et al. copy of John Stone's
will 20 October 1847; inventory of Stone's personal estate 9 February
1848;
bill 16 November 1849; petition of answer [1852?]; list of hires 22
October
1852;
petition of Elizabeth Willis 20 December 1852; decree 6 May 1853 Slave
owner emancipates slaves and bequeaths them land and dwelling house;
creditors
of the slavemaster's estate sue former slaves for payment of debts MSA
SC 4239-21-26
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-4-126]
Clarissa Herbert vs. Jeremiah Herbert et al. bill 6 June 1849; decree 6
January 1854 Slaveholder's wife seeks compensation for a slave who had
been deeded to her prior to her marriage but sold by administrators
following
her husband's death MSA SC 4239-21-27
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-4-130]
John W. Downing vs. Joseph Stewart et al. bill 25 May 1850 Slave to be
sold "to satisfy an alleged balance claimed to be due upon said
judgment"
MSA SC 4239-21-28
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-4-131]
Catherine Cooksey vs. A. W. Turner et al. bill 5 June 1850 Constable
secures
slave Jane to satisfy a writ against owner; slave to be sold 5 June
1850
MSA SC 4239-21-29
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-4-132]
Catherine Cooksey vs. John Lancaster bill 20 June 1850; order 3 January
1855 Constable secures slave Betty to satisfy a writ against owner MSA
SC 4239-21-30
* CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Equity Papers)
[MSA T2154-4-139]
Ann T. Beall vs. Samuel H. Beall bill [1850]; property assessment 28
October
1850; order of the court 22 October 1850; [order] 28 October 1850
Slaveholding
husband whips and maltreats wife MSA SC 4239-21-31
* CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T2154-5-163] Elizabeth H. Farrell vs. William Bean bill in equity 6
September
1852; court of appeals ruling December 1856; [decree] May 1857 Farrell
mortgaged Negro boy Tom but person who mortgaged slave later claimed
actual
ownership MSA SC 4239-21-32
* CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T2154-5-197] Francis R. Wills vs. Ann Wills et al bill 7 July 1854;
auditor's
report 6 May 1856 Unruly and difficult to control slave named Alfred
sold
MSA SC 4239-21-33
* CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T2154-5-215] William B. Matthews vs. Henry Queen bill 26 February 1855;
decree 19 May 1856 Free black man Henry Green purchased slave Lucretia
MSA SC 4239-21-34
* CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T2154-6-221] Edmund Perry vs. Thomas M. Radcliffe bill 15 May 1855;
copy
of Thomas Ratcliff's will; decree 17 May 1855 Slaveholder emancipates
slave
Mary and stipulates in his will that his property should be sold
and"divided
among my Negroes" MSA SC 4239-21-35
* CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T2154-6-251] Shelby Clark vs. William Bean bill 2 May 1857; copy of
Dorothy
Adams' will Executor refuses to turn over to legatee a slave named
Henny
or reimburse legatee for hire of slave as stipulated in deceased's will
MSA SC 4239-21-36
* CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T2154-6-252] William H. Howell vs. William N.Bean bill 7 May 1857
Executor
refuses to turn over to legatee a slave woman named Henny or reimburse
legatee for hire of slave as stipulated in deceased's will MSA SC
4239-21-37
* CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T2154-6-253] Petition to appoint trustee petition of John Baker Langley
12 May 1857 Trustee who holdstwo slaves in trust asks to be relieved of
his responsibility MSA SC 4239-21-38
* CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T2154-6-265] Francis Edelen and Sarah Edelen vs.George Brent et al.
equity
bill 7 May 1858; copy of William Sanders' will 1 February 1849; decree
29 May 1858 Heirs to an estate seek "increase of the negroes bequeathed
in said will" MSA SC 4239-21-39
* CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T2154-6-273] Sarah Harris et al. vs. Mary Cox bill 2 November 1858;
agreement
15 December 1864 Heirs to an estate seek "negro woman Kitty &
her children
John Catherine Sarah & Charles" as specified in will of
deceased slave
master John N. Cox MSA SC 4239-21-40
* CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T2154-6-295] Alice Canter vs Henry Canter bill 27 November 1861 Wife
who
owned slaves prior to marriage seeks divorce and retention of slaves
MSA
SC 4239-21-41
* CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T2154-6-302] Catharine Brayfield vs. Robert F.Brayfield petition of
Catherine
Brayfield 1 May 1862; decree 9 December 1862; petition of Catherine
Brayfield
9 January 1863; summons 30 March 1863; testimony 13 April 1863; decree
for divorce 20 October 1863 Slaveholding wife seeks injunction to
prevent
husband from selling her slaves; also seeks divorce on the grounds that
husband lived in adultery with another woman MSA SC 4239-21-42
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-1] No. 8 Negro
Adam vs. Andrew Foster Leverton Jun. 1792 MSA SC 4239-2-1
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments) [S381-1]
No. 28 Nathaniel
Allen vs. Richard Higgins Jun. 1798 MSA SC 4239-2-2
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments) [S381-2]
No. 8 John
Ashton vs. Charles Mahoney Jun. 1802 MSA SC 4239-2-3
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments) [S381-13]
No. 4 Richard
Booth vs. David Weems Jun. 1796 MSA SC 4239-2-4
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments) [S381-19]
No. 151
David Barley vs. Rebecca Ringgold et al. Dec. 1853 MSA SC 4239-2-5
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments) [S381-52]
No. 3 Adam
Craig vs. Mary Butler Jun. 1791 MSA SC 4239-2-6
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments) [S381-59]
No. 16
Joseph Camden vs. William Scrivener Jun. 1805 MSA SC 4239-2-7
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments) [S381-61]
No. 23
William Cecil vs. Negro Rose Jun. 1859 MSA SC 4239-2-8
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments) [S381-61]
No. 212
William Cecil vs. Negro Rose Dec. 1860 MSA SC 4239-2-9
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-128] No. 7
Hugh Hopewell vs. Negro Jack May 1784 MSA SC 4239-2-10
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-128] No. 8
James Hopewell vs. Negroes Frank et al. May 1784 MSA SC 4239-2-11
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-128] No. 10
Thomas Hopewell vs. Negroes Minta et al. May 1784 MSA SC 4239-2-12
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-128] No. 11
Elizabeth Hopewell vs. Negroes Nan et al May 1784 MSA SC 4239-2-13
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-172] No. 138
Landy Linstead vs Anne Green Jun. 1852 MSA SC 4239-2-14
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-182] No. 12
William M. Wilkinson vs. Benjamin Mackall Jun. 1792 MSA SC 4239-2-15
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-183] No. 15
John F. Mercer vs. John Boston Nov. 1797 MSA SC 4239-2-16
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-183] No. 16
John F. Mercer vs. Fanny Boston Nov. 1797 MSA SC 4239-2-17
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-183] No. 17
John F. Mercer vs. Henry Boston Nov. 1797 MSA SC 4239-2-18
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-183] No. 18
John F. Mercer vs. Anne Boston Nov. 1797 MSA SC 4239-2-19
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-183] No. 19
John F. Mercer vs. Jenny Boston Nov. 1797 MSA SC 4239-2-20
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-186] No. 18
Jane McKim Marriott, et al. vs. Samuel Badger Jun. 1854 MSA SC
4239-2-21
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-188] No. 25
James T. N. Maddox, executor vs. Josias Price et al. Jun. 1861 MSA SC
4239-2-22
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-324] No. 3
Negroes Peter et al. vs. Susanna Elliott et al. Nov. 1793 MSA SC
4239-2-23
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-228] No. 113
Thomas Pearce and Sally Pearce vs. John Van Lear, Jr. Jun. 1854 MSA SC
4239-2-24
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-228] No. 118
Joseph Pearce, Edward Rowles vs. Negro John Dec. 1854 MSA SC 4239-2-25
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-247] No. 150
Rebecca Ringgold et al. vs. David Barley Dec. 1853 MSA SC 4239-2-26
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-248] No. 21
Edward Reynolds vs. Negroes Lewis and David Jun. 1859 MSA SC 4239-2-27
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-248] No. 22
Edward Reynolds vs. Negroes Juliet Porter et al. Jun. 1859 MSA SC
4239-2-28
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-257] No. 15
Upton Scott vs. Eleanor Toogood May 1783 MSA SC 4239-2-29
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-260] No. 12
Richard Sprigg vs. Philip Boston Nov. 1797 MSA SC 4239-2-30
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-260] No. 13
Richard Sprigg vs. Maria Boston Nov. 1797 MSA SC 4239-2-31
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-260] No. 14
Richard Sprigg vs. Benjamin Boston Nov. 1797 MSA SC 4239-2-32
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-263] No. 120
David Stuart vs. Elijah Williams Jun. 1853 MSA SC 4239-2-33
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-300] No. 24
Thomas Tongue vs. Negroes Crissy, Kitty, George, Susan, Rhody and
Wesley
Jun. 1855 MSA SC 4239-2-34
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments)
[S381-320] No. 136
Thomas Waring vs. Rebecca Edmonds Dec. 1857 MSA SC 4239-2-35
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments,
Eastern Shore) S380-11
No. 9 Negro Eli vs. William Anderson Jun. 1809 MSA SC 4239-1-1
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-12
No. 24 Abraham Dennis vs. Negro George Dec. 1809 MSA SC 4239-1-2
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-28
No. 2 Philip Crisfield vs Nancy Green, Benjamin Green, and Mary Green
Jun.
1813 MSA SC 4239-1-3
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-28
No. 4 John Stewart et al. vs. Samuel Holbrook et al. Jun. 1813 MSA SC
4239-1-4
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-28
No. 19 Richard Jones vs. Robert Moody Jun. 1813 MSA SC 4239-1-5
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-31
No. 32 William Patterson vs. Negro Betty Jun. 1815 MSA SC 4239-1-6
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-33
No. 21 George Walls vs. Henny Hemsley and children Jun. 1817 MSA SC
4239-1-7
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-39
No. 10 Alexander Walkup vs. Edwin M. Pratt Jun. 1820 MSA SC 4239-1-8
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-39
No. 20 Negro William vs. William Kelley Jun. 1820 MSA SC 4239-1-9
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-59
No. 29 Negroes George, David, Kim, Harry, Maria, Beck, and Mary vs.
Thomas
C. Kennard Jun. 1827 MSA SC 4239-1-10
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-65
No. 8 Negro Patience et al. vs. Isaac Morris et al. Jun. 1830 MSA SC
4239-1-11
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-67
No. 5 Betsy Anderson vs. Alexander Parsons Jun. 1831 MSA SC 4239-1-12
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-72
No. 14 William Murrey vs. Vincent E. Benton Nov. 1836 MSA SC 4239-1-13
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-74
No. 3 Emily Ann vs. George S. Hollyday Jun. 1841 MSA SC 4239-1-14
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgment, Eastern
Shore) S380-77
No. 10 Stephen Cornish vs. Jacob Willson Jun. 1848 MSA SC 4239-1-15
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-3
No. 80 Thomas Allen vs. Jim Sharp Jun. 1835 MSA SC 4239-3-1
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-3
No. 80 John Anderson vs. Negro Julia Ann Bailey Jun. 1836 MSA SC
4239-3-2
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-4
No. 164 Thomas Anderson vs. Rebecca Garret et al. Jun. 1850 MSA SC
4239-3-3
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-22
No. 49 John M. Burke vs. Negro Joe Jun. 1834 MSA SC 4239-3-4
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-22
No. 110 Sophia Bland and Austin Woolfolk vs. Negro Beverly Dow Jun.
1836
MSA SC 4239-3-5
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-39
No. 153 Airy Cross et al. vs. William Black Dec. 1837 MSA SC 4239-3-6
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-44
No. 79 Marine De Fontaine and Betsy De Fontaine vs. John P. Bonard Jun.
1818 SA SC 4239-3-7
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-45
No. 34 Charles Davis vs. Paul Jacquin and John Pomerait Jun. 1820 MSA
SC
4239-3-8
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-54
No. 79 David Fulton vs. Negro John Lewis May 1815 MSA SC 4239-3-9
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-74
No. 62 Samuel Haney vs. Thomas Waddle May 1815 MSA SC 4239-3-10
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-76
No. 34 William Hughes vs. Negro Milly et al. Jun. 1821 MSA SC 4239-3-11
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-77
No. 20 Andrew Hamilton vs. James Cragg Jun. 1823 MSA SC 4239-3-12
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-77
No. 21 Andrew Hamilton vs. Dick Cragg Jun. 1823 MSA SC 4239-3-13
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-84
No. 52 Negro Milley Howard vs. Zachariah Duvall Jun. 1834 MSA SC
4239-3-14
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-90
No. 16 Joseph J. Jones, admr. vs. Charles and Frank Beall Dec. 1849 MSA
SC 4239-3-15
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-116
No. 96 James McLaughlin vs. Negro Sam Jun. 1837 MSA SC 4239-3-16
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-122
No. 47 Negro Clara vs. Timothy D. Meagher Jun. 1820 MSA SC 4239-3-17
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-123
No. 152 Negro Mahala vs. Charles Boone Jun. 1829 MSA SC 4239-3-18
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-123
No. 107 Negro Margaret vs. Amos Ogden Jun. 1830 MSA SC 4239-3-19
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-123
No. 134 Negro John et al. vs. William Morton Dec. 1836 MSA SC 4239-3-20
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-123
No. 116 Negro Maria vs. Edward Ridgely Dec. 1837 MSA SC 4239-3-21
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-123
No. 141 Negro Peggy vs. Michael Wilson Dec. 1837 MSA SC 4239-3-22
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-123
No. 52 Negro Dennis Anthony vs. Joseph Hays Dec. 1841 MSA SC 4239-3-23
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-132
No. 13 Mary Queen and children vs. Rev. Charles Neale May 1815 MSA SC
4239-3-24
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-132
No. 172 Nancy Queen vs Rev. Charles Neale Dec. 1810 MSA SC 4239-3-25
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-143
No. 12 Robert Stewart vs. Robert Oakes Dec. 1813 MSA SC 4239-3-26
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-144
No. 90 Otho Sprigg vs Negro Mary Dec. 1814 MSA SC 4239-3-27
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-144
No. 91 Otho Sprigg vs Negro Presly Dec. 1814 MSA SC 4239-3-28
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-162
No. 241 Perry Spencer vs. Negro Dennis Dec. 1849 MSA SC 4239-3-29
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-177
No. 36 Jonathan Woodburn vs. Negro Anna Jun. 1817 MSA SC 4239-3-30
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-185
No. 160 John C. Weems vs. Negro Watt Jun. 1828 MSA SC 4239-3-31
* COURT OF APPEALS (Judgments, Western
Shore) S382-187
No. 97 Thomas S. Wilson vs. Negro Anna Barnet Dec. 1836 MSA SC
4239-3-32
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions) Mulatto Tom vs.
Lingenfelter
ITEMS: petition 25
April 1785
COMMENTS: The son of
a free white woman
Tom seeks his freedom; "I am now Twenty six years old; i look upon it
to
be a verry great hardship to serve the said Lingenfelter untill I am
thirty
one years old"
SOURCE: MSA 847-1
[MSA 4239-22-1]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Patrick McNamara
22 March 1786
COMMENTS: Jailed as
a runaway, McNamara
noted that he had fought in the American Revolution under Captain
Migills
SOURCE: MSA 847-1
[MSA 4239-22-2]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
Negro Anthony
vs. Michael Null
ITEMS: petition of
Anthony, a black
man, 23 November 1791; deposition of Margaret Shaw 22 March 1792
COMMENTS: Seeks
freedom
SOURCE: MSA 847-1
[MSA 4239-22-3]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
Walter Butler
vs. Thomas Price
ITEMS: petition for
freedom 22 November
1791
COMMENTS: Free born
black seeks freedom
after having been bound by his mother to age twenty
SOURCE: MSA 847-1
[MSA 4239-22-4]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Negro Rachael [1792]
COMMENTS: Free born
black seeks freedom
SOURCE: MSA 847-1
[MSA 4239-22-5]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
Negro Binah
vs. Wolfe
ITEMS: petition 29
March 1791; case
stated [1791]
COMMENTS: Binah
charges that she is
detained in slavery although entitled to her freedom
SOURCE: MSA 847-1
[MSA 4239-22-6]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Jacob Hope 13 November
1835
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA 847-2
[MSA 4239-22-7]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
William Phillips
vs. Jeremiah Collins
ITEMS: petition 8
March 1836; summons
February thru April 1836; copy of court record 1835
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA 847-2
[MSA 4239-22-8]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Henry Kemp 8 March
1836
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA 847-2
[MSA 4239-22-9]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
Peter Phebus
vs. Negro Levi
ITEMS: petition of
Peter Phebus 9 May
1838; petition of Charles Wilson 24 October 1838; application for
apprentice
22 October 1838; copy of bill of sale 25 January 1838
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA 847-2
[MSA 4239-22-10]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
John Wood 31 October
1838; certificate 8 July 1838; [Exhibit] A, copy of manumission, 15
June
1822; [Exhibit] A, copy of manumission, 17 July 1827; order of sale 5
November
1838
COMMENTS: Wood seeks
to sell slave
SOURCE: MSA 847-2
[MSA 4239-22-11]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
Davis vs. Mitchell
ITEMS: petition of
James Davis 6 March
1838; testimony [1838]; copy of petition and order 7 June 1838
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA 847-2
[MSA 4239-22-13]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Caleb Ogleton 20
March 1844
COMMENTS: Freeborn
black held as runaway
slave successfully petitions for release from jail
SOURCE: MSA 847-2
[MSA 4239-22-14]
* FREDERICK COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Negro John 10 November
1838; answer of Joseph Wagner 12 November 1838; exhibit A 3 May 1828;
order
of the court 12 NOvember 1838
COMMENTS: Manumitted
slave claims he
is held illegally in bondage and seeks permission to emigrate to
Liberia
SOURCE: MSA 847-2
[MSA 4239-22-12]
* FREDERICK COUNTY CIRCUIT
COURT (Petitions) [MSA
C848] Norris vs. Ritchie petition of Daniel Norris 15 October 1855;
petition
of Lydia A. Norris 15 October1855 Blacks claim they are being illegally
detained in bondage MSA SC 4239-33-1
* FREDERICK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions) [MSA
C848] Petition of Ezra Shank 25 April 1855 Obtains permission to sell
Matilda
Roberts, a "notoriously vicious & turbulent" slave MSA SC
4239-33-2
* FREDERICK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions) [MSA
C848] Petition of George W. Brown, Negro 9 June 1855; copy of
commitment
6 June 1855 Black arrested on assault and battery charges receives
permission
to have his case heard in court MSA SC 4239-33-3
* FREDERICK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions) [MSA
C848] Petition of Dudley, a Slave 13 December 1855; copy of commitment
13 December 1855 MSA SC 4239-33-4
* FREDERICK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions) [MSA
C848] Petition of William Joyce and Samuel Joyce 4 February 1865 Two
former
slaves claim they are free by the Maryland constitution but are held in
bondage; court issues writ of habeas corpus MSA SC 4239-33-5
* FREDERICK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions) [MSA
C848] Petition of William Henry Brown 3 May 1865; court order to
sheriff
3 May 1865 Father obtains writ of habeas corpus for son Isaac who is
detained
in slavery MSA SC 4239-33-6
* HOWARD DISTRICT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA T409-62-101-1]
Nicholas Worthington vs. Ann Worthington docket entries 13 November
1843;
petition for writ 27 May 1823; petition 19 February 1824; trustees
report
of sale of Negroes 20 April 1824; petition of Ann Worthington 1
September
1829; account 16 September 1829 Insane slave owner's slaves are sold by
trustee MSA SC 4239-23-1
* HOWARD COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T409-62-124] James Simms et al. vs. Caroline Berry bill 30 June 1856;
exhibit
A 30 June 1856 Simms and others seek sale of Negro Sam for partition
MSA
SC 4239-23-2
* HOWARD COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA
T409-63-233-1] George G. Latchford et al. vs. Talitha Marriott et al.
bill,
amended bill, 17 September 1860; final order by court 5 March 1861;
auditor's
report 21 October 1862 Group of legatees petitions to sell real estate
rather than slave property to pay debts of estate. The slaves "are
valued
as family servants and aid in supporting the minors." MSA SC 4239-23-3
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of Peter Roulens 2 April 1840; order of the
court
14 April 1840 MSA SC 4239-24-1
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of Samuel Dorsey 1840; approval 29 September
1840
MSA SC 4239-24-2
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of Hugh Harrison 24 June 1841 MSA SC 4239-24-3
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of William Johnson 23 November 1842 MSA SC
4239-24-4
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of Nathan Snowden 20 June 1843; testimonial 22
August 1843 MSA SC 4239-24-5
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of William Willey 17 March 1845 MSA SC
4239-24-6
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of Patience et al. 24 February 1846;
proceedings
of the orphans court 1843; Maryland vs Dorsey record 30 January 1849;
court
of appeals ruling [1849] MSA SC 4239-24-7
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of Charles G. Haslap 9 February 1847 MSA SC
4239-24-8
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Hammond vs. Welsh petition of John Hammond 6 July 1847
MSA SC 4239-24-9
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Gaither vs. Joshua, a servant petition 24 August 1847
MSA
SC 4239-24-10
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of Joshua Barlow 28 December 1847; order of
court
[1847] MSA SC 4239-24-11
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of Sophia Johnson ca. 1847 MSA SC 4239-24-12
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Hardy vs. Acorn 17 June 1851; motion 5 July 1851 MSA SC
4239-24-13
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of Lucretia Warfield 10 June 1851 MSA SC
4239-24-14
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of J. Dorsey 29 July 1851 MSA SC 4239-24-15
* HOWARD DISTRICT REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
[MSA T1307-28a] Petition of James Piper 9 September 1851 MSA SC
4239-24-16
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of R. H. Hare 4 May 1852 MSA SC 4239-24-17
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of John Owings 3 August 1852 MSA SC 4239-24-18
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of W. Worthington 16 November 1852; court order 1
March
1858 MSA SC 4239-24-19
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of Harriet Williams 7 June 1853 MSA SC 4239-24-20
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of Mary Ann Dorsey 6 June 1854 MSA SC 4239-24-21
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of William Fisher 20 June 1854 MSA SC 4239-24-22
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of John R.D. Thomas 19 September 1854 MSA SC
4239-24-23
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of Benjamin Williams 21 November 1854 MSA SC
4239-24-24
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of A.L. Mackey 1854 MSA SC 4239-24-25
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Shipley vs. Hopkins, Negro petition 16 January 1855 MSA SC
4239-24-26
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of Z.M. Isaac 6 February [1855] MSA SC 4239-24-27
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of Thomas W. Legins 20 February 1855 MSA SC
4239-24-28
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of Mary Welsh 17 April 1855 MSA SC 4239-24-29
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of James Gary 17 April 1855 MSA SC 4239-24-30
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of Greenbury Johnson 17 April 1855 MSA SC
4239-24-31
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of James Harbau 1855 MSA SC 4239-24-32
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of R. Johnson 1 May 1855 MSA SC 4239-24-33
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of George Richardson 7 August 1855 MSA SC
4239-24-34
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of Edward Talbott 2 October 1855 MSA SC 4239-24-35
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of J.J. Mayfield 2 October 1855 MSA SC 4239-24-36
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of J. H. Owings 7 October 1856 MSA SC 4239-24-37
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Elliott vs Negro Boston petition 16 October 1855 MSA SC
4239-24-38
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of Littleton Waclin 2 December 1856 MSA SC
4239-24-39
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of W. Mathews 29 January 1861 MSA SC 4239-24-40
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of Richard Simpson 26 February 1861 MSA SC
4239-24-41
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of George Gaither 2 September 1861 MSA SC
4239-24-42
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of Walter Clemmons 1862 MSA SC 4239-24-43
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Thomas vs. Brown petition 5 May 1863 MSA SC 4239-24-44
* HOWARD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions) [MSA
T1307-28a] Petition of Amanda Blackstone 2 January 1866 MSA SC
4239-24-45
* MARYLAND STATE PAPERS (Scharf
Collection) [S1005]
Petition of William Durban, Jr. to Judge of Frederick County Court, 23
July 1814 MSA 4239-6-1
* MARYLAND STATE PAPERS (Scharf
Collection) [S1005]
Negro Henry vs. Sprigg MSA SC 4239-6-2
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT
(Equity Papers) [MSA T415-3-35]
Negro Charity and others vs. Robb, Lansdale, Robb bill 1818; statement
of William Campbell 1818; answer of Adam Robb 19 May 1819; decree July
1820 Charity, Mary and her infant child, and Kitty asserted that they
were
entitled to their freedom as indicated in the affidavit of William
Campbell,
but now they believed they had been sold and were "about to be carried
out of this State" MSA SC 4239-25-1
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA T415-3-52]
Martha Toogood et al. vs. Andrew Graff et al. bill of Sally Toogood
[1822];
bill of Sally Toogood by her next friend Martha Toogood 20 February
1822;
answer of Walter Stewart 6 March 1822; bill 30 November 1822; bill bond
30 November 1822; copy of deed of emancipation 13 November 1821 It was
"agreed between the Counsel for the different parties"that the
manumitted
slaves should be sold to pay debts MSA SC 4239-25-2
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA T415-5]
John Atwood vs. Benjamin Marshall Petition of John Atwood ca. 1828
Atwood
seeks payment of $575 debt with interest beginning February 1, 1822,
from
slaveowner who put title to his blacks in the name of a brother MSA SC
4239-25-3
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA T415-6-66]
Thomas Scott vs. Henry Roberts bill 20 November 1830 Scott charges that
Roberts plans the "secret removal" of three male slaves belonging to
the
estate deceased Joseph Roberts MSA SC 4239-25-4
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA T415-10-112]
Union Bank of Georgetown vs. John P. C. Peter et al. bill 5 November
1835
Slaveholder owed bank $15,489 MSA SC 4239-25-5
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA T415-9-111]
Thomas M. Offutt et al. vs. Ann M. Fisher bill 5 November 1840 Dispute
over slaves in an estate MSA SC 4239-25-6
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA T415-12-125]
William Willson vs. John Braddock bill 2 July 1846; decree 8 March
1847;
report 15 October 1847 Slaves Elizabeth, Edward, Jane, et al. sold for
debt MSA SC 4239-25-7
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA T415-14-106]
Ann Magruder vs. Wesley Magruder bill 18 June 1847; answer 26 January
1848;
amended bill 14 December 1848; testimony ca. 1848; interlocutory decree
18 July 1849 Farmer could not afford "to employ or purchase servants"
except
an old black woman who had been in his family; wife seeks divorce
because,
according to husband, she would not cook his meals and he responded
violently
MSA SC 4239-25-8
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA T415-22-74]
John A. Carter vs. Charles Spates bill 25 January 1848 Plaintiff
charges
that slaves were sold by sheriff or others improperly MSA SC 4239-25-9
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) [MSA T415-15-109]
Stephen Anderson et al. vs. Joseph Anderson bill of complaint 20
October
1850 Legatee charges executor of his father's estate omitted Negro
property
from inventory MSA SC 4239-25-10
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[MSA T415-19-124] John Jones et al. vs. Teresa Jones et al. petition 29
September 1855; inventory of personal estate 29 September 1855; decree
3 March 1858 Estate and slaves MSA SC 4239-25-11
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[MSA T415-22-111] William Willson vs. Robert Magruder bill 12 December
1855; exhibit A list of slaves 12 December 1855; exhibit B copy of will
12 December 1855; amended bill 18 January 1856; copy of second account
4 December 1857; auditors report 4 March 1858 Slaveholder frees slaves
in his will if they will emigrate to Liberia; if they do not leave they
will remain in slavery; heirs seek to abide by the letter of the will;
court declares slaves free MSA SC 4239-25-12
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[MSA T415-22-145] Henry Warring vs. Anna Warring petition of Henry B.
Warring
12 November 1851; court order 4 February 1861; auditor's report 27
February
1861 Slave owning woman declared insane; slaves hired out; one of the
slaves,
Sophia, ran away with her two children but was captured and sold MSA SC
4239-25-13
* MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
[MSA T415-25-167] Julia Patterson vs. George C. Patterson bill for
divorce
3 February 1865; answer 3 May 1865; commissioner's return 17 July 1865
Husband sells wife's slave; slave trader testifies MSA SC 4239-25-14
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT
(Court Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-7] Petition for freedom by Kate on behalf of Harry, George,
Hesse, and Jim; petition 18 January 1809 MSA SC 4239-26-1
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-8] Milly Ogleton vs. Osborne Boone petition for freedom 10
September
1810; summons 10 September 1810 "...your petitioner is detained in
slavery
by Osburn Boone; and as she is entitled to her freedom having had
...descended
from a free Woman" MSA SC 4239-26-2
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-9] Letty Ogleton et al. vs. Philip Soper petition for
freedom
10 September 1810; summons 10 September 1810 Petition for freedom for
Letty
and her children Henry, Michael, Lucy, Luckey, and Charles MSA SC
4239-26-3
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-10] Amey and Daniel Ogleton vs. Colemore Pope petition for
freedom
10 September 1810; summons 10 September 1810 Petitioners said they were
detained in slavery by Pope though they were descended from a free
woman
MSA SC 4239-26-4
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-11] Eliza Ogleton et al. vs. Samuel Marshall petition for
freedom
10 September 1810; summons 10 September 1810 Eliza and her three
children
Solomon, Maria, and Daniel said they were illegally held in bondage MSA
SC 4239-26-5
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-12] Charles Ogleton et al. vs. Francis [Osborn] petition for
freedom 10 September 1810; summons 10 September 1810 Blacks claimed
they
were being illegally detained in slavery MSA SC 4239-26-6
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-13] Harry Ogleton et al. vs. Nelly Jenkins petition for
freedom
10 September 1810; summons 10 September 1810 Blacks being detained in
slavery
and entitled to their freedom MSA SC 4239-26-7
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-14] Pompey Ogleton vs. Fielder Pope petition for freedom 10
September 1810; summons 10 September 1810 Slave claims illegal
detention
in slavery MSA SC 4239-26-8
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-16] Milly Ogleton vs. Osborne Boone depositions 5 September
1811 "...your petitioner is detained in slavery by Osburn Boone; and as
she is entitled to her freedom having had ...descended from a free
Woman"
MSA SC 4239-26-9
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-26] Petition of Ann Mudd and George Sylvester Boone to the
Governor
of Maryland; petition April 1828 petition for sale of blacks confined
in
county jail MSA SC 4239-26-10
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-27, 28, and 30] Arthur Pue West vs. Charles H. L. West
record
1 October 1828; deposition of John Bird 3 November 1828; article of
agreement
17 April 1829 Court record, including copy of original petition,
involving
the contested will of slave master Stephen West who according to one
version
emancipated a number of slaves and others, including his two servants
Polly
and Charlotte "whom I heretofore liberated;" 62 1/2 acres of land;
agreement
sought "deeds of manumission" MSA SC 4239-26-11
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-39] Petition of Thomas Burke petition 15 April 1833; letter
of commendation 15 April 1833 Free black man asks for the privilege of
owning a gun MSA SC 4239-26-12
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-43] State vs. Milly Bowser petition of Milly Bowser 27 April
1835; commitment 27 April 1835; warrant 27 April 1835; bench warrant 27
April 1835 Free black arrested and jailed for entering the state
illegally
from the District of Columbia; she petitions the chief judge of the
First
Judicial District and is released from confinement MSA SC 4239-26-13
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-44] Hannah Jackson et al. vs. Arthur P. West petition 26
November
1835; bill docket 26 November 1835; summons 26 November 1835 Group of
five
free blacks held by Arthur P. West in the Upper Marlboro jail as
slaves;
they asserted they were "persons of color free & entitled to
freedom
under the laws of the State of Maryland" MSA SC 4239-26-14
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-55] Negroes Catherine, Airy, Frederick, Eliza, Benjamin,
Caroline,
George, and Alfred vs. Jeremiah Townshend petition 9 October 1847
Blacks
claimed that they were unjustly "detained in slavery by one Jeremiah
Townshend
of said County" MSA SC 4239-26-15
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-57] Lucy Crawford vs. Hope H. Slatter Transcript of
Baltimore
City Court Proceedings 23 March 1848 Lucy Cawford sues for her freedom
and wins MSA SC 4239-26-16
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-59] Charles Digges vs. Negro Enoch petition 13 November
1848;
bill of sale 13 November 1848 In 1848, Digges purchased Enoch who was
to
serve until 25 October 1856 and then be set free. The slave was a
perpetual
runaway, a person "very bad character," and, according to the master, a
"rogue". Under a law permitting owners to sell "notoriously vicious or
turbulent" blacks, even those promised their freedom, Digges was
granted
permission to sell his slave. MSA SC 4239-26-17
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court
Papers, Blacks)
[MSA C1187-62] Petition of Thomas Baldwin petition 8 July 1850 Request
to sell Negro John Cogy MSA SC 4239-26-18
* PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Court Papers,
Blacks) [MSA C1188-63] Petition of Citizens of Piscataway Neighborhood;
petition 14 March 1856 Whites ask commissioners for pension for Negro
Kitty
Chapman; she was old, infirmed, afflicted, and entirely destitute; she
hd "lost her eyesight as well as her mind"; the commissioners
appropriated
$10 MSA SC 4239-34-1
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT
(Equity Papers) 89 Hezekiah
Smoot vs. George Beal
ITEMS: bill 23
February 1830 (4); answer
2 December 1830 (3); decree 16 November 1831 (2)
COMMENTS: Sale of
slaves
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-151 [MSA 4239-27-3]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 62 Catherine
Ann Keech vs. John Hopkins and Mahlon Hopkins
ITEMS: bill 24
January 1831 (4); answer
19 November 1831 (3); decree, n.d. (1)
COMMENTS: Sale of
slaves Lucinda and
Charlotte
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-179 [MSA 4239-27-4]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 63 William
S. Keech vs. John Hopkins and Mahlon Hopkins
ITEMS: bill 24 June
1831 (2); answer
19 November 1831 (3)
COMMENTS: Sale of
slave Mary
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-180 [MSA 4239-27-5]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 68 James
Reeder vs. William B. Locke and Susanna Reeder
ITEMS: bill 19
September 1831 (3); disclaimer
19 November 1831 (2)
COMMENTS: Sale of
slaves Frederick,
George, Avis, et al.
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-183 [MSA 4239-27-6]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 86 Charles
L. Gardiner vs. Edward Fenwick
ITEMS: bill 20 May
1833; answer 18 November
1833; exhibit A 12 January 1833; exhibit G letter 11 January 1833;
statement
of purchase 18 November 1833; receipts 1826-1832
COMMENTS: Slave
Michael purchased his
freedom but Fenwick would not release him from bondage
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-207 [MSA 4239-27-7]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 87 Charles
Nuthall vs. Margaret Bean
ITEMS: bill 21 May
1833; decree 17 August
1833; trustees report 17 September 1834
COMMENTS: Sale of
mortgaged slave
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-208 [MSA 4239-27-8]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 157 Philip
Turner vs. Peter Gough and John L. Milburn
ITEMS: bill 15 March
1833
COMMENTS: Title of
slave Harriet
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-218 [MSA 4239-27-9]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 133 Edmund
J. Plowden and William L. Brent vs. Edward J. Heard and Henry J. Heard
ITEMS: bill 24
September 1836
COMMENTS: Suit
concerning title to slaves
Lucy, Ann, Mary Olivia, Cecilia, James, and Henrietta
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-259 [MSA 4239-27-10]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 137 George
G. Ashcom vs. Zachariah Spalding
ITEMS: bill 16 May
1837; answer 2 August
1837
COMMENTS: Suit
concerning contract to
purchase slaves
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-262 [MSA 4239-27-11]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 204 George
A. Carpenter
ITEMS: petition 10
August 1842; order
of court August 1842; affidavits August 1842
COMMENTS: Request to
sell twelve-year-old
female slave because owner had not been able to "produce a reformation"
in her behavior
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-308 [MSA 4239-27-12]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 205 Jane
Rock vs. James Rock
ITEMS: petition
[1842]; commission report
March 1844
COMMENTS: Jane Rock
seeks divorce because
husband married her for her money; the 1840 U.S. census listed James
Rock
as head of household, age 50 to 60; Jane age 60 to 70; and two slaves,
ages 10 to 24, male and female. USMSPC, St. Mary Co., Md., 1840, p.
181.
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-309 [MSA 4239-27-13]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 216 Samuel
Winchester vs. William Reeder
ITEMS: bill 2 August
1843; decree 16
March 1844
COMMENTS: Mortgage
foreclosure on slaves
Sandy and Ceila
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-316 [MSA 4239-27-14]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 242 Albert
Burch vs. Mary N. Alvey
ITEMS: bill 15 March
1845
COMMENTS: Mortgage
foreclosure on slave
Rachael
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-338 [MSA 4239-27-15]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 262 Briscoe
Cheseldine et al. vs. William Allston and Morris Shanks
ITEMS: bill 24
August 1846
COMMENTS: Dispute
over title to slaves
Adam and Richard
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-356 [MSA 4239-27-16]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 268 Benjamin
G. Harris vs. William Reeder
ITEMS: bill 11
February 1847
COMMENTS: Mortgage
foreclosure on slave
Susan
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-360 [MSA 4239-27-17]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 269 William
Reeder vs. Basil R. Spalding et al.
ITEMS: bill March
1847; newspaper notice
11 February 1847
COMMENTS: Trustees
sell Negro woman
Mary
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-361 [MSA 4239-27-18]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 88 William
Coad vs. George Taylor
ITEMS: bill 19
February 1830 (3); copy
of bill 19 February 1830 (2); decree 10 July 1833 (4)
COMMENTS: Mortgage
foreclosure on slaves
Lewis and Charles
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-150 [MSA 4239-27-2]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY COURT (Equity
Papers) 73, 170
Henry Abell vs. Elizabeth Attaway Abell et al.
ITEMS: bill and
exhibit 10 March 1829
(4); bill and exhibit, n.d. (4); decree 12 march 1835 (2)
COMMENTS: Family
dispute over ownership
of slaves
SOURCE: MSA
C1591-134 [MSA 4239-27-1]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Leonard Hyfel 7 April
1836; last will and testament 1835; copy, last will and testament, 26
May
1831; advertisement 11 March 1836
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA C1673-5
[MSA 4239-28-1]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Jane Woodland, free
black 21 November 1857
COMMENTS: Free black
seeks relief from
apprenticeships of children
SOURCE: MSA C1673-10
[MSA 4239-28-2]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
C.L. Johnson 13 June
1859
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA C1673-12
[MSA 4239-28-3]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Henry Hammett 9 January
1859
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA C1673-12
[MSA 4239-28-4]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY CIRCUIT
COURT (Equity Papers)
402 John H. Key vs. Benjamin G. Harris and Henry G.S. Key
ITEMS: bill 9 March
1855; exhibit A,
indenture, 14 March 1855; answer of H.G.S. Key 21 March 1855; answer
B.G.
Harris 21 March 1855; decree 29 May 1855
COMMENTS: Case
involving foreclosure
on land and slaves
SOURCE: MSA C1592-44
[MSA 4239-35-1]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
404 John H. Tucker vs. Robert J. Dean
ITEMS: bill 22 March
1855; mortgage
13 March 1854; commissioners's return 23 November 1855
COMMENTS: Mortgage
foreclosure on slaves
George, Martha, Robert, and Henry
SOURCE: MSA C1592-46
[MSA 4239-35-2]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
469 Thomas Hebb and William H. Hebb vs. Clement Wathen and Robert H.
Wathen
ITEMS: bill 11
November 1858; exhibit
A, indenture, 11 November 1858; decree 6 June 1859
COMMENTS: Mortgage
foreclosure on slaves
Hester, Betty, James, and Cecilia
SOURCE: MSA C1592-81
[MSA 4239-35-3]
* ST. MARY'S COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers)
481 Alexander Penn et al. vs. Hezekiah H. Bean
ITEMS: bill 24 June
1859; copy of mortgage
24 June 1859
COMMENTS: Mortgage
foreclosure on slaves
John and Robert
SOURCE: MSA C1592-88
[MSA 4239-35-4]
* ST. MARY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers)
402 Mary Ellen Hayden vs. Bernard L. Layden
ITEMS: bill 22 March
1862; court order
22 March 1862
COMMENTS: Wife of
slaveowner sues for
divorce charging that "in the last few years these acts of violence
have
become so frequent and severe as to render it unsafe for your
Petitioner
to trust herself in the society of her said husband"
SOURCE: MSA
C1592-122 [MSA 4239-35-5]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Equity Papers) William
J. Trippe vs. Nicholas H. Trippe
ITEMS: bill of
complaint 4 May 1857;
decree 15 May 1857; trustee's report of sales 17 August 1857; petition
of trustee 9 December 1858; petition of William Trippe 11 June 1860;
petition
19 December 1864; petition of Samuel Hambleton 29 January 1873
COMMENTS: Slaves in
trust estate hired
out, then sold
SOURCE: MSA
T1628-1-96 [MSA 4239-29-1]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) Robert
O. Ridgaway vs. William Ridgaway
ITEMS: bill of
complaint 24 June 1858;
decree 27 August 1858; petition and order of the court 24 December
1858;
report of trustee 7 March 1859; advertisement for "sale of the negroes"
8 March 1859; exhibit A 14 May 1859; exhibit B 14 May 1859; copy of
petition
and order of court 2 May 1859; petition of R. O. Ridaway 7 April 1860;
petition 23 December 1868
COMMENTS: Trustee of
an estate sells
slaves
SOURCE: MSA
T1628-1-113 [MSA 4239-29-2]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) William
J. Trippe vs. Nicholas H. Trippe
ITEMS: bill of
complaint 4 May 1857;
decree 15 May 1857; trustee's report of sales 17 August 1857; petition
of trustee 9 December 1858; petition of William Trippe 11 June 1860;
petition
19 December 1864; petition of Samuel Hambleton 29 January 1873
COMMENTS: Slaves in
trust estate hired
out, then sold
SOURCE: MSA
T1628-1-96 [MSA 4239-29-1]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Equity
Papers) Robert
O. Ridgaway vs. William Ridgaway
ITEMS: bill of
complaint 24 June 1858;
decree 27 August 1858; petition and order of the court 24 December
1858;
report of trustee 7 March 1859; advertisement for "sale of the negroes"
8 March 1859; exhibit A 14 May 1859; exhibit B 14 May 1859; copy of
petition
and order of court 2 May 1859; petition of R. O. Ridaway 7 April 1860;
petition 23 December 1868
COMMENTS: Trustee of
an estate sells
slaves
SOURCE: MSA
T1628-1-113 [MSA 4239-29-2]
* TALBOT COUNTY COURT (Petitions)
Negroes Ann Marie
et al. vs. Hopkins
ITEMS: petition 22
May 1824; log page
November 1858; summons 22 May 1824
COMMENTS: Petition
for freedom
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-1]
* TALBOT COUNTY COURT (Petitions) Moses
Mowbray
vs. William Kirby
ITEMS: petition 16
May 1825; log page
November 1858
COMMENTS: Petition
for freedom
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-2]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions) Johnson
vs. Ridgaway
ITEMS: petition 4
January 1858 (2);
affidavit 18 August 1858
COMMENTS: Blacks
claim illegal detention
in slavery
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-3]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
John W. Dawson 15
February 1859
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-4]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Francis Loockerman
17 February 1859
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-5]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
William Hayward 17
February 1859; distribution costs 17 February 1859
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-6]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Edward Hardwith et
al. 1 December 1860
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-7]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
James Chambers 19
February 1863
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-8]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Washington Gordon
22 August 1863; writ of habeas corpus 22 August 1863
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-9]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Lloyd Mitchell 17
November 1863
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-10]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Nathan Hopkins, a
slave 1 October 1864; letter 24 September 1864
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-11]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Samuel Stewart 10
January 1865; response petition of James A. Ridgaway 17 January 1865;
writ
of habeas corpus 18 January 1865
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-12]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Caroline Hopkins
2 January 1866; answer 8 January 1866; writ of habeas corpus 5 January
1866; order of court 8 January 1866
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-13]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions) Daniel
Joshua vs. State of Maryland
ITEMS: petition 8
January 1866; commitment
8 January 1866; writ of habeas corpus 12 January 1866; summary of
proceedings
28 January 1866
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-14]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Petition of
Mark Cornish 11 April
1866; answer 19 April 1866; writ of habeas corpus 11 April 1866
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-15]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Almira
Johnson vs. Archie Price
petition of Almira Johnson 9 June 1866; answer 26 June 1866; writ of
habeas
corpus 25 June 1866; opinion of the court 3 July 1866; order of court
24
July 1866
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-16]
* TALBOT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
(Petitions)
ITEMS: Bailey vs.
Johnson petition 22
November 1866; answer 26 November 1866; writ of habeas corpus 23
November
1866
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T1638-39
[MSA 4239-30-17]
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF
WILLS (Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Michael House vs. George French petition 20
June
1811; accounty 26 March 1811; petition 8 May 1812 Dispute over profits
from slaves and land in an estate MSA SC 4239-32-1
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Samule Lynch, Jr. petition 10
November
1818 MSA SC 4239-32-2
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Gher vs. Dorsey petition of George Gher
[1829];
answer 1 September 1829 Estate administrator seeks to have slave child,
"begot prior to the execution of the Bill of Sale [of the mother]
&
not included therein", to be part of the estate MSA SC 4239-32-3
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Henry A. Jamison bill [1836];
petition
of Elizabeth A. Byrne 7 December 1835 Slaveowner was "exceedingly
soliticous
for the welfare of her domestics", and through a male administrator of
her husband's estate she asked that slaves be sold at a private sale
for
the best prices rather than at a public sale for the appraised prices
(which
were 10 percent above market value) MSA SC 4239-32-4
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] John Bowles vs. Isabell Johnson bill 12
November
1845; answer 15 November 1845 Two Negro girls named Eliza and Sarah
were
improperly included in an inventory as belonging to the estate of John
Johnson according to plaintiff MSA SC 4239-32-5
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Henrietta Gaither bill 26 May 1846
Slaveowner notes that "some of said negro slaves are married, and a
public
sale of them would subject them to the hazard of being separated from
their
families and also being sold out of the state, or to cruel masters--all
of which they are desirous of preventing" MSA SC 4239-32-6
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Virginia Jenkins bill 22 September
1846 Free black woman (though her color is not indicated) asks tobe
released
from jail because she had been arrested for leaving and returning to
the
state "contrary to law" MSA SC 4239-32-7
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of James Biays bill 11 May 1847;
court
order [1848] Sale and distribution of estate slaves MSA SC 4239-32-8
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Juliet McKinely vs. N. McKinley bill 12
October
1847; bill 1848; order of the court 2 December 1847; docket of appeal
21
March 1848 Case involving slaves belonging to an estate MSA SC
4239-32-9
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Daniel Huyett vs. Edward Gaither 16 November
1847
bill 16 November 1847 Creditors to an estate charge that estate
administrator
sold some slaves to Matilda Gaither "only to gratify the requirements
of
the Orphans Court in making his return of the sales at the property
time";
in fact the administrator was the purchaser of the slaves MSA SC
4239-32-10
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of George Scheley and James A. Dall
bill
14 December 1847 Executors of estate of large number of blacks ask
permission
to keep the property until the spring of 1848, and "perhaps for a
longer
period", so that they can be most beneficial to the parties interested
in the estate MSA SC 4239-32-11
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Edward Gaither 1 February 1848;
exhibit
A [1848]; appeal 17 February 1848 Estate administrator accused to
hiring
slaves out for his profit MSA SC 4239-32-12
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Lavinia Grove bill 7 March 1848
Slaveowner
admits mistake of including in an inventory slaves for life named
Thomas,
Francis, Mary and Isabella, but the four slaves were entitled to their
freedom when they reached age thirty five; asks court to issue a new
warrant
of appraisal MSA SC 4239-32-13
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Eve Abigail Davis vs. Samuel A. Stonebraker
bill
17 October 1848 Davis claims title to slave Tilly MSA SC 4239-32-14
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of William Cushua petition 1849
Estate
executor asks the court to accept the plea for freedom of Amy Thompson,
a "Mulatto Servant Woman" belonging to the estate of Elizabeth Prather
MSA SC 4239-32-15
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] John Crookshanks vs. William Patterson (Negro)
bill 24 October 1848; decree 20 January 1849 Crookshanks seeks to
extend
service of William who ran away MSA SC 4239-32-16
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] William Brown vs Isabell Brien bill 1849;
answer;
decree 5 June 1849 Negro girl Margarett was incorrectly cited on an
estate
inventory MSA SC 4239-32-17
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Z. Claggett bill 17 April 1849
Estate
administrator asks court to delete two slaves from an inventory because
"the said slaves are not the property of the deceased and that he had
but
a life estate in the same" MSA SC 4239-32-18
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of John C. Wenger bill 15 May 1849;
order
of the court 15 May 1849 Guardian of a minor says that the minor's
mother
was possessed in her own right of "certain slaves being a negro woman
and
four children, & being so possessed, she then intermarried with
your
petitioner, who joined his said wife Huedah, on the 11th day of
December
1847, in a sale of said slaves to a certain free man of color named
Levi
Bowie, a resident of Washington County, at and for the sum of three
hundred
and fifty dollars--a price, which your petitioner admists was greatly
below
the actual market value of said negroes--"; guardian asks that heirs to
an estate unite in legalizing bill of sale to Bowie MSA SC 4239-32-19
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of John Chase bill 26 February 1850
Free
negro John Chase purchased his wife Peggy, and his two daughters Ellen
and Maria, in 1839, but owed $105; loaned the money by Honorable Thomas
Buchanan, when Buchanan died in 1847, the executors of his estate
listed
Chase's two children on the inventory of property (Peggy had died); and
Chase sought to have Ellen and Maria striken from the inventory MSA SC
4239-32-20
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Joseph Smallwood bill 30 September
1851; charge [1851]; order of the court [1851] Former slave emancipated
in the District of Columbia, Smallwood asks to be released from jail,
having
been arrested when entering the state; he argued that he was passing
through
on his way to Pennsylvania, and was released MSA SC 4239-32-21
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Richard Grim vs. Elizabeth Grim bill 22 June
1852;
answer 22 June 1852 Dispute over slaves belonging to the estate of
Alexander
Grim MSA SC 4239-32-22
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Elizabeth Smith et al. vs. David Smith bill 29
June 1854; docket page 1854; answer 11 August 1854; bill of sale 4
September
1837; testimony [1854]; decree of orphans court 27 October 1854;
petition
for appeal 8 November 1854; decree and opinion of court of appeals
Heirs
to an estate seeks compensation for Negro girl Maria MSA SC 4239-32-23
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Nathaniel Summers vs. George Harvey 10
November
1854 "The Petition of Nathaniel Summers, admr. of Paul Summers decd,
shows
to your Honors that a certain David Gray, a colored man, now deceased,
agreed with the said Paul, in his life time, for a valuable
consideration
to support and maintain his blind and aged mother, Martha Barns, a
slave
of said Paul, for and during her life" MSA SC 4239-32-24
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of George Brent bill 18 April 1855
Executrix
of Margaret B. Blackwell seeks certificates of freedom for manumitted
blacks
MSA SC 4239-32-25
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Certificates of Character--"request and
recommend"
to the court in behalf of Henry Calhoun 1 May 1855; Maria, Ann and
George
Goens 4 May 1855; Susan A. Murray 15 May 1855; Philip Herbert [ca.
1855];
George House 29 June 1855; Mary Ann Miller 3 July 1855; Grace Cook 10
July
1855; Louise Handey 20 July 1855; Louisa Butler 20 July 1855; Sally
Ambrose
1855; Harriett Lyncy 20 July 1855; Henry Mitchell 17 June 1856 Whites
recommend
free persons of color of "good character" MSA SC 4239-32-26
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Estate of Esther Middlekauff petition of Jacob
Middlekauff et al. 21 June 1855; petition of John Middlekauff et al. 21
June 1855 Estate administrators seek to free slaves as prescribed in
last
will and testament of Esther Middlekauff MSA SC 4239-32-27
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Estate of Thomas Buchanan bill 26 June 1855
Administrator
seeks to use mortgage on "Negro woman & 4 Children" as a credit
upon
the amount of an inventory MSA SC 4239-32-28
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] State of Maryland vs. Thomas Rice petition of
Thomas Rice and Hiram Good 18 December 1855; court order to sheriff
[1855];
court order on Thomas Rice 18 December 1855; court order on Hiram Good
18 December 1855 Pennsylvania free blacks arrested as runaway slaves;
remained
in jail from summer to December before released MSA SC 4239-32-29
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Isaish Thompson bill 12 December
1855;
court order 21 December 1855 Thompson seeks revocation of his indenture
because of his master's refusal to provide "necessary wants"; bill
found
in packet titled "Orders of Court relating to free Negroes"; described
as a "negro boy" he is allowed to seek another master; unusualcase of
black
successfully sueing a white MSA SC 4239-32-30
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of George W. Post bill 15 January
1856;
court order 15 January 1856 Illegitimate mulatto indentured servant
Sarah
Westenberger caused a "great deal of trouble" for her master, and the
court
extended the indenture MSA SC 4239-32-31
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] William B. Kennedy vs. Negro Emanuel
Stephenson
bill 12 February 1856; answer 15 February 1856; decree 15 February 1856
Defendant denies charges of bad character and absconding; bill
dismissed
MSA SC 4239-32-32
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Permits to Free Negroes--whites "respectfully
recommend" with "certificates of character" for the following:
certificate
for George Wagoner 1 May 1856; permit to George Wagoner 2 May 1856;
certificate
for Louisa Butler 20 May 1856; certificate for Nancy Anderson 20 May
1856;
certificate for Harriet Lynch 20 May 1856; certificate for Cesar Pepers
21 May 1856; certificate for Susan A. Murray 3 June 1856; certificate
for
Ann Miller 17 June 1856; certificate for Charles Reeder 17 June 1856;
certificate
for Esther Briscoe 17 June 1856; certificate for Mary Gwinn 17 June
1856;
certificate for Joseph Snively 17 June 1856; certificate for Maria
Briscoe
17 June 1856; certificate for Sallie Ambrose 20 June 1856; certificate
for Nannette Graham 23 June 1856; permit to Nanette Graham 24 June
1856;
certificate for Jane Barnes 30 June 1856; permit to Jane Barnes 1 July
1856; certificate for John Henry August 1856; permit to John Henry 5
August
1856 Travel permits sought by free people of color MSA SC 4239-32-33
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] In the Matter of Hannah Lucket bill [1856];
request
to register of wills 7 January 1856; oath of Richard Ragan, Jr. 7
January
1856; note regarding name 7 January 1856 "Hannah = Stout in person =
Light
complexion - five feet 5 inches -" was freed by the will of Richard
Ragan
the elder MSA SC 4239-32-34
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Jacob Hawk et al. vs. Henry Fiery et al. bill
9 May 1856; answer 31 May 1856; the 3rd account 1856; decree 10 June
1856
Dispute involving account submitted by executors and included slave
property
MSA SC 4239-32-35
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Benjamin Jonathan bill 27 June
1856;
court order 27 June 1856 Free black jailed "for coming into the state"
says he is a resident of the state and has not broken the law; court
ordered
Jonathan to pay $20 and all fees, costs and expenses, and if he could
not
he was to be turned over to the sheriff and sold at public auction to
the
highest bidder "for cash, whether a resident of his state or not for
the
shortest term, which will pay the said fine" MSA SC 4239-32-36
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of ALfred Dunmore bill 4 September
1856;
permit to Alfred Dunmore 5 September 1856 Free mulatto obtains
permission
to visit "his brothers and relations residing in the vicinity of
Pittsburg"
MSA SC 4239-32-37
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Westly Triple bill 17 October 1856
Free black from Virginia jailed as runaway slave on August 9, 1856;
released
by court order October 17, 1856 MSA SC 4239-32-38
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Schlosser Witmer vs. Joshua Myers bill 31
December
1856 Myers, a black apprentice to Witmer, a runaway, was captured, and
is given an additional eighteen months servitude MSA SC 4239-32-39
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Margaret Booth vs. David Cooper Negro Slave
bill
29 May 1857; letter of Wilson and Hindes [1857]; bill of costs [1857];
decree 5 June 1857 Runaway slave "of bad habits" arrested in
Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, and court granted permission for Booth to sell him out of
the state MSA SC 4239-32-40
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] James Burris vs. John Miller bill 7 August
1857;
bill of sale 7 August 1857; agreement of Joseph Yates 7 August 1857
Burris
sells the indenture of John Miller "a colored boy" to Yates for $125
MSA
SC 4239-32-41
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Barbara Ruch bill 18 August 1857
Wife
of deceased slaveowner claims a Negro boy "to be her own in her own
separate
right" MSA SC 4239-32-42
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Daniel Brosins et al. vs. Jacob Younker slave
bill 13 November 1857; costs [1857]; decree 13 November 1857 Court
ruled
that slave's term should be extended ten years, to 12 October 1879,
because
of absconding MSA SC 4239-32-43
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Henry Show vs. Mary Jones Mulatto Slave bill
17
November 1857; testimony 14 April 1857; answer of Mary Jones 17
November
1857; decree 17 November 1857 Although Mary Jones denied that she had
ever
run away from her master, her indenture is extended eighteen months MSA
SC 4239-32-44
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of Andrew Hasmire bill 4 May 1858
Permission
to sell runaway slave woman granted MSA SC 4239-32-45
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Petition of William Patterson and Nathan
Luckett
bill 23 July 1858 Two free blacks arrested as runaway slaves in May are
released MSA SC 4239-32-46
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Susan Brumbaugh et al. vs. Henry Baker, Negro
Slave bill 1 April 1859; certificate of justices of peace 28 August
1857;
certificate of Thomas Biddle 19 January 1858; order of court 1 April
1859;
state of Maryland vs. Henry Baker 28 August 1857; statement of costs
[1859]
Baker, a free man of color, remained in the state past the sixty days
allowed
him following his release from the penitentiary; he was given four
years
and three months service; later his service was extended to 1875 MSA SC
4239-32-47
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Nelson J. Ditto vs. his slave Resin Howard
bill
6 August 1859; decree 9 August 1859 Authorization granted to sell
"nortoriously
turbulent and vicious" runaway slave MSA SC 4239-32-48
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-1] Joseph Yates vs. John Miller bill 18 May 1860;
court order 18 May 1860 Permission granted to sell runaway MSA SC
4239-32-49
* WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS
(Petitions
and Orders) [MSA T450-2] Virginia Mason Estate docket page 11 October
1861;
petition of John Thomson Mason 18 September 1861; copy of bill of sale
11 October 1861; testimony of John T. Mason 11 October 1861; court
findings
on bill of sale [1861]; decree 11 October 1861 Administrator of estate
questions the fact that two slaves, Fanny and Dan, are listed in
appraisement
of property when they should not be; Dan, appraised at $550, was
"wholly
deranged so as to be of no value for work, but on the contrary an
actual
charge upon your petitioner" MSA SC 4239-32-50
| MSA
SC 4239
compiled by Dr. Loren Schweninger from Maryland State Archives records for "Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks: Petitions to Maryland" |