John Fields
MSA SC 3520-18372
Lynched in Queenstown, Queen Anne's County, on April 24, 1863 

Sources:

Newspapers

 "Previous Lynching," Cecil Whig, May 16, 1891.

 "A White Girl Seduced By A Slave," Baltimore Sun, April 27, 1863.

 Alexandria Gazette, April 27, 1863.

 "Found Hung," Cambridge Herald, April 29, 1863.

 Smyrna Times (Delaware), April 30, 1863.

 Sunday Dispatch, May 3, 1863.

Archival Sources

 "Ancestry.com, 1860, United States Federal Census, Slave Schedule, Queen Anne's County, District 4, p. 1

Ancestry.com, 1860, United States Federal Census, Queen Anne's County, District 5, p. 11, and 12.

 Maryland State Archives, Queen Anne's County Circuit Court (Criminal Docket), November Term 1863, C1385-26, entry #25.

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