Davy Jones (b. circa 1815 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-1369
Fled from slavery, Prince George's County, Maryland, 1855

Biography:

The enslaved man Davy Jones grew up in Calvert County, Maryland.  Yet, by 1855, Robert J. Young had purchased him, and taken him to Nottingham, Prince George's County.  Jones ran from Young on March 13, 1855.  Rather than running northward, or to nearby Washington, D.C., pusuers suspected the forty year old headed southward, back to Calvert County and the family left behind following his sale.  The Plummers of Fair Haven in that county held Jones's wife and children.  A possible alternative (or additional) destination to that of his wife and children, Young noted in an advertisment placed for Jones's return, was his father, who lived in Anne Arundel county (east of Nottingham, north of Calvert County), held by the widow of James Kent.

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