Joseph (b. circa 1790 - d. circa ?)
MSA SC 5496-001678
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, St. Mary's County
Biography:
Joseph was enslaved on John K. Jackson's farm on Cedar Point in Saint Mary's County.1 In the spring of 1813, Joseph was one of Jackson's four slaves. They likely worked along side the fourteen slaves of Mary Jackson, John Jackson's wife. 2
In May 1814, Joseph escaped to British forces on the Potomac River.
He joined the slave Ralph
Jackson,3 boarding the frigate San Domingo under
the command of Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren.4
1. Definitive List of Slaves
and Property/, compiled ca. 1827 - ca. 1828/ *ARC Identifier 1174162 /
MLR Number PI 177 192,* National Archives at College Park.
U.S. Census
Record (Census Record, MD) John K. Jackson, 1810, St. Mary's County, Page
23b, last line [MSA SM61-56, M 2061-3].
2. ST. MARY'S COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF THE TAX, (Assessment Record, Slaves), 1813, [MSA C1544-32]. John K.
Jackson, April 6, 1813.
ST. MARY'S
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE TAX, (Assessment Record, Slaves), 1813, [MSA
C1544-32]. Mary Jackson, March 17, 1813.
3. Claim of John K. Jackson,
Saint Mary's County, Case No. 835, Case Files, compiled ca. 1827 - ca.
1828, documenting the period ca. 1814 - ca. 1828. *ARC Identifier 1174160
/ MLR Number PI 177 190*. National Archives, College Park.
3.
Definitive List of Slaves and Property.
4. David S. Heidler and
Jeanne T. Heidler, Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 (Annapolis, MD:
Naval Institute Press, 1997) 225.
Robert Malcomson,
Historical
Dictionary of the War of 1812 (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006) 447.
Return to Joseph's Introductory Page
|
Tell Us What You Think About the Maryland State Archives Website!
|