Peter Boston (b.1770- d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-3343
Accomplice to slave flight, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 1820
 

Biography:

Peter Boston was born a free black man in 1770 who worked as a farmer.  In 1820 Peter was charged and convicted for helping a slave to flee the state.  No information is available on the trial.  Peter reappears in the 1830 census living by himself.

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