Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Anthony Johnson
African American Planter
MSA SC 3520-14039

Sources:

Books-
Berlin, Ira, Many Thousands Gone: The First two Centuries of Slavery in North America.  Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Breen, T.H. and Stephen Innes, "Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Deal, J. Douglas, Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore During the Seventeenth Century. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993.

Matthews, Harry Bradshaw, The Family Legacy of Anthony Johnson: From Jamestown, VA to Somerset, MD, 1619-1995.  Oneonta, NY: Sondhi Loimthongkul Center for Interdependenc, Hartwick College, 1995.

Archival Sources-

Lease agreement between Stephen Horsey and Anthony Johnson, 1666, SOMERSET COUNTY COURT (Land Records) 1665-1668, Liber B1, folio 32, MSA C1778-1

"Marke" of Anthony Johnson, SOMERSET COUNTY COURT (Land Records) 1665-1668, Liber B1, folio 33, MSA C1778-1

Will of Mary Johnson, wife of Anthony Johnson, 1672, SOMERSET COUNTY COURT (Judicial Record) 1671-1675, Liber i, folio 161, MSA C1774-3 ; Page 2, SOMERSET COUNTY COURT (Judicial Record) 1671-1675, Liber i, folio 162, MSA C1774-3

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