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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 452 Print image (51K) |
| Adams-Butler 11/7/99 10:29 PM iii. Charles, "Negro" head of a Dover County household of 3 "other free" in 1800 [DE:97]. BEDDO FAMILY 1. Martha Badoe, born say 1693, was the servant of Thomas Coleman of Benedict Hundred on 12 June 1711 when she was presented by the Charles County Court for having a "Mallato" child. She admitted her guilt in court two months later on 14 August when the court ordered that she serve an additional seven years and bound her child to Coleman for 31 years. She was presented for the same offense on 9 June 1713 and on 9 August 1713 she bound her four month old son James to Coleman. On 9 March 1735/6 the court ordered Coleman to bring her "Mullatto Daughter" Eleanor before the court to have her bound out [Court Record 1711-5, 196-7; 1734-9, 143]. She was the mother of i. James1, born about April 1713, bound apprentice to Thomas Coleman of Benedict Hundred, Charles County on 9 August 1713. 2 ii. Eleanor, born say 1715. 2. Eleanor Bedoe, born say 1715, was the "Mullatto Daughter" of Martha Bedoe. On 12 June 1744 the Charles County Court convicted her of having an illegitimate child and ordered that she receive twelve lashes. The court also ordered her son James bound out to Edward Goodrich until the age of twenty one years [Court Record 1744-5, 25]. She was the mother of i. James2 Beddo, head of a Charles County household of 9 "other free" in 1800 [MD:522j. BENTLY FAMILY 1. Isaac Bentley, born say 1730, was described as a "mulatto fellow ... alias Protus" on 14 August 1760 when Richard Tilghman Earle of Queen Anne's County advertised in the Maryland Gazette that he had run away with an English convict servant man named Benjamin Williams [Green, The Maryland Gazette, 1727-61,251]. He may have been the father of 2 i. Rosamond, born say 1750. http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Adams-ButIer.htin Page 12 of 38 |