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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: 456 Print image (56K) |
| Adams-Butler _ _ ___ __ 11/7/99 10:29 PM certificate in Frederick County on 4 June 1816: a dark Mulatto Man about Twenty two years, about five feet eight and three quarter Inches high ... free born and a Child of Susanna Middleton a white woman as appears by the affidavit of Barbara Ney. ii. Susanna, bom about 1795, obtained a certificate of freedom in Frederick County on 4 June 1816: a bright Mulatto, aged about twenty one years, five feet four Inches and three quarters of an Inch high ... child of Susanna Middleton, iii. John, born about 1796, obtained a certificate in Frederick County on 4 June 1816: a Dark Mulatto aged about twenty years, five feet three inches high ... free Born child of Susanna Middleton a white woman as appears by the affidavit of Barbara Ney. iv. Nancy, bom about 1801, obtained a certificate of freedom in Frederick County 4 June 1816: a Dark Mulatto aged about 15 years, five feet two inches and an half high... free born child of Susanna Middleton [Certificates of Freedom 1806-27, 59-60]. BOSTON FAMILY 1. Catherine Boston, born say 1740, was described as a yellow woman, being a Portuguese, in a suit brought by her son, Anthony Boston, a slave who was granted his freedom in Anne Arundel County about 1793. The court ruled that the family descended from a Spanish woman named Maria, to her daughter Linah, to Linah's daughter Violet. Linah was described as being of yellow complexion with long black hair [Catterall, Judicial Cases Concerning Slavery-, FV:51 (Rawlings v. Boston, 3 Har. and McH. 139, May 1793)]. Catherine was the mother of i. Anthony, won his freedom about 1793, head of a Prince George's County household of 3 "other free" in 1800 [MD:301]. ii. ?William, head of a Talbot County household of 4 "other free" in 1790 and 5 in 1800[MD:518]. iii. ?Phil, head of an Anne Arundel County household of 8 "other free" in 1800 [MD:109j. iv. ?Charles, head of an Anne Arundel County honsp.holH of 7 "nthp.r frp*»" in 1800 FMD-IOIl http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Adams-Butler.htm Page 16 of 38 |