James Wilson (b. circa 1798 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-3352
Accomplice to slave flight, Baltimore City, Maryland, 1841

Biography:

Baltimore City police arrested James Wilson, a middle aged Englishman, charging him with aiding and abetting.  Possibly inebriated, Wilson, a hack driver, facilited the escape of a slave away from Baltimore, perhaps even out of the state.  Married, illiterate, the forty-three year old was convicted in March 1841.  He served a three-year term as a result in the Maryland Penitentiary.

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