Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Thomas Brown (b. ? - d. 1816)
MSA SC 3520-014452
Free African American, Baltimore City

Sources:

Archival Sources-

Baltimore City, Fielding Lucas, Jr., Plan of the City of Baltimore, 1836, MSA SC 5339-7-372.

BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Land Records) Liber WG 122, Folio 435 [MSA CE 66-172]. Andrew Ellicott to Thomas Brown, March 17, 1813.

BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Land Records) Liber WG CC, Folio 355 [MSA CE 66-78]. Samuel Stinchcomb to Joseph Evans and Thomas Brown, December 15, 1788. (Unknown if this is the same Thomas Brown, although he was the only Thomas Brown who appeared in Baltimore's 1790 census.)

BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories) Liber 31, Folio 218 [MSA C340-32]. Estate of Thomas Brown, September 26, 1816.

BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Orphans Court Proceedings) Liber 9, Folio 336 [MSA C396-9]. Rebecca Brown and Benjamin Ellicott, executors of Thomas Brown, August Term 1816.

BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) Liber 5, Folio 102 [CR 72242-1, MSA CM188-5]. Thomas Brown, March 29, 1793.

BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) Liber 8, Folio 462 [CR 72243-2, MSA CM188-8]. Thomas Brown, January 8, 1807.

BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) Liber 10, Folio 214 [CR 72244-2, MSA CM188-10]. Thomas Brown, August 8, 1816.
 

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Thomas Brown, 1790, Baltimore Town, Page 9, Line 8 [MSA SM61-2, SCM 2053-1].
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U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Thos. Brown, 1800, Page 13, last line [MSA SM61-24, SCM 2054-3].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Thomas Brown, 1810, Ward 2, Page 218, last line [MSA SM61-43, SCM 2058-1].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Rebecca Brown, 1820, Baltimore, Ward 2, Page 66, Line 4 [MSA SM61-63, SCM 2064].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Thomas Brown, 1830, Baltimore, Ward 2, Page 75, 11th line from bottom [MSA SM61-83, SCM 66].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Thos. Brown, 1840, Baltimore, Ward 2, Page 84, Line 12 [MSA SM61-98, SCM 4712].

The Constitution and Form of Government, as Proposed to be Amended by a Committee Appointed by the House of Delegates at the Last Session. (Annapolis: Frederick Green, 1794). Archives of Maryland Online, Volume 416 - Section I, VII.

Newspapers and Journals-

The Mail, or Claypoole's Daily Advertiser 2 October, 1792 [MSA SC 5634] (Papenfuse Newspaper Collection). For excepted ad, click here.

Baltimore Daily Repository 26 September 1792.

Dunlap's Maryland Gazette, or, The Baltimore General Advertiser Collection 5 November 1776 [MSA SC 2828, M 3724] .

Books -

 
Bright, F. Edward. Baltimore Directory and Citizens' Register for 1807. Baltimore, MD: Warner and Hanna, 1807.
Graham, Leroy. Baltimore, the Nineteenth-Century Black Capital. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1982.
Phillips, Christopher. Freedom’s Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Quarles, Benjamin. “The Revolutionary War as a Black Declaration of Independence.” Slavery and Freedom in the Age of American Revolution, Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman, eds. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1983. 48-64.

Thompson, William, and James L. Walker. The Baltimore Town and Fell’s Point Directory. Baltimore, MD: Pechin, 1796.


Internet Sources -

"Hall of Records Commmission Meeting." 19.12 (December 15, 2005). http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/refserv/bulldog/bull05/bull19-12/bull19-12.html.


Note on sources and research. The following sources were examined but had no mention of Thomas Brown:
- BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Chattel Records) MSA C298.
- BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Miscellaneous Court Papers) MSA C1.
- BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Accounts of Sale, Index) 1780-1851, CM126.
- BALTIMORE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Administration Accounts, Index) 1631-1966, CM128.
- Governor and Counsel (Election Returns) BA, 1792, MSA S106-14.
- MARYLAND INDEXES (Pension Records, Revolutionary War, Index) MSA S1421.
- Scharf Collection of Election Papers.
- Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Baltimore City and County, Including Biographical Sketches of Representative Men. Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881.
- Maryland Gazette for 1792.
- Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser for 1792. (Note: Researcher found several mentions of the election, including an announcement of the winners, but no mention of a Thomas Brown.)

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