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Peter Rawlings (b. circa 1797 - d. circa ?)
MSA SC 5496-002515
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, Calvert County, Maryland, 1814

Biography:

Peter Newlings was enslaved on Susannah Rawlings' farm in Calvert County. According to Rawlings' neighbor, a Colonel Brooke, Peter was the son of a man who used the surnames Goler and Washington.1

In July 1814, Peter escaped from Rawlings' farm, along with the slaves Alexander Covington and Minty Caden. They boarded a British ship in the Patuxent River.2
 


Footnotes

1.     Claim of Susannah and Juliet Rawlings, Calvert County, Case No. 569, Case Files, Ca. 1814-28, entry 190, Record Group 76, National Archives, College Park.

2.     Ibid.
 

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