Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Abraham (b. circa 1805 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-001906
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1813

Biography:

According to St. Mary's County slaveholder Caleb Jones, he woke to British troops pounding on his door on the night of August 22, 1813. They threatened to burn it down if he resisted, then plundered the house and carried away the eight-year-old slave Abraham. One of Jones' slaves, a man whose name was not mentioned, had guided the British to the house to retrieve the child, whose mother Suckey, had escaped to the British earlier that night with four others: Job, Peter, Luce, James.1
 

1.     Claim of Caleb Jones, St. Mary's County, Case No. 638, Case Files, Ca. 1814-28, entry 190, Record Group 76, National Archives, College Park.
 

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