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Anna Maria Waring (b. 1817 - d. 1878)
MSA SC 5496-002243
Slaveholder in Germantown, Clarksburg District, Montgomery County, Maryland

Biography:

Anna Maria Waring was born on February 22, 1817. She was one of eleven children born to Henry Waring and his second wife, Millicent Brooke.1 Her father and mother died in 1835 and 1847 respectively, and by 1860 Anna was living on the farm of her brother, Henry Basil Waring.2 Called "Norway," the farm stood at Waring Station, near Germantown.3 Court records from that period showed Anna as mentally incompetent.4

Perhaps Anna was the same Ann Waring who placed a runaway advertisement for a slave named Abraham, who had fled his enslavement in Washington D.C. in 1837.5 She owned $6,800 in personal property in 1860, including six slaves.6 In the summer of 1860, the slave Sophia escaped from the Waring's farm with her two children.7 Then in 1862, Waring's committee petitioned the U.S. District Court for reimbursement for the slave Gabriel's labor.8 Gabriel had apparently fled to freedom in Washington D.C., which had outlawed slavery in April 1862.9

Anna died on June 19, 1878, and was buried at the cemetery at Saint Mary's Catholic Church of Piscataway Cemetery.10
 

1.     Effie Gwynn Bowie. Across the Years in Prince George's County (Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, Inc., 1947) 603-604, 609.

2.     Bowie 603.
        U.S. Census Record (Census Record, MD) for Anna Maria Waring, 1860, Montgomery County, Clarksburg District, Page 1, Line 34 [MSA SM61-213, M 7223-1].
 
3.     "Old Waring Homestead Burned." 14 April 1896 Baltimore Sun: 2. Baltimore Historical Archive. This article identifies the name of the Waring farm as "Norway."

4.     MONTGOMERY COUNTY, CIRCUIT COURT, (Equity Papers), 1858-1859, Warring vs. Warring, [MSA T415-22].

5.     "Twenty-five Dollars Reward." 1837 April 11 Daily National Intelligencer: 2.

6.     U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) Anna M. Waring, Slaves, 1860, Montgomery County, Clarksburg District, Page 3, Line 19 [MSA SM61-239, M 7230-2].

7.     "Old Waring Homestead Burned." Sun.

8.     Joan Marie Dixon. National Intelligencer Newspaper Abstracts, Special Edition: The Civil War Years.Vol. 1 (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2000) 367.

9.     Emancipation Papers for Anna M. Waring (slaveholder). Records of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Relating to Slaves, 1851-1863; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Ancestry.com.

10.   Jean A. Sargent. Stones and Bones: Cemetery Records of Prince George's County, Maryland (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1988).
        "Anna M. Waring." Find a Grave. Saint Mary's Catholic Church of Piscataway Cemetery. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Waring&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSst=22&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=11919083&df=all&.
 
 

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