Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Samuel Green (b. 1802 - d. 1877)
MSA SC 3520-13785
Arrested for possession of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dorchester County, 1857
Alleged accomplice to slave flight, 1854 - 1857

Sources:

Original Research -

Blondo, Richard A.  Samuel Green: A Black Life in Antebellum Maryland. Unpublished M.A. Thesis. University of Maryland, 1988.  MSA SC 2248


Primary Sources -

DORCHESTER COUNTY COURT (Clerk's Docket), April Term 1857, "Presentments" # 6 and #9, State of Maryland vs. Samuel Green free negro.

BALTIMORE CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS (Death Record) 1874-1949, # 15965.

MARYLAND PENITENTIARY (Prisoner Record) 1811-1869, #5146.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY (Laws) 1841, Chapter 272 (Volume 593, Page 232).

GENERAL ASSEMBLY (Laws) 1842, Chapter 163 (Volume 594, Page 119).

GOVERNOR (Miscellaneous Papers), Petition of Dorchester Slaveholders, 1857 MSA S 1274-56.

SECRETARY OF STATE (Pardon Docket) 1862-1869, "Samuel Green free Negro"

DORCHESTER COUNTY COURT (Chattel Records) 1827-1851, Book ER 2, pp. 475-476. 

Newspapers -

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Easton Gazette Collection) "Sam Greene and Uncle Tom's Cabin" The Easton Gazette Vol. XLI, No. 36, p. 2. August 28, 1858. M 11028 MSA SC 2940.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, "Simon the Cyrenian", The Independent Vol. XIV, No. 17. July 31, 1862.
[Independent. (New York), Vol. 14 (Jan-Dec 1862),  reel 11, available from http://wwwlib.umi.com/sim/gateway.]

"Speech of Rev. Samuel Green." The Liberator. 15 August 1862.(page 2)

"A Reminiscence of Slavery Times" Baltimore American, 23 March 1877.

Various Newspaper accounts transcribed/cited at <http://collinsfactor.com/newspaper/samuelgreennews.htm>

Books -

Still, William. The Underground Railroad:  A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc.  (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872), pp. 246-250.

Long, John Dixon. Pictures of Slavery in Church and State. Philadelphia: Published by Author. 1857.

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2004.


Internet Sources -

Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census, Dorchester County, New Market, p. 23.

Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census, Dorchester County, District 1, p. 206.

Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census, Dorchester County, District 2, p. 49.

East New Market: Notable People and Families, "Samuel Green", <collinsfactor.com>.(Census data, newspaper accounts, probate records, land records)
 

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