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Mark Caesar (b. circa 1810 - d. circa 1850)
MSA SC 5496-003364
Accomplice to slave flight, Charles County, Maryland, 1845

Sources:

Archival Sources -

Aptheker, Herbert. American Negro Slave Revolts. New York, NY: International Publishers, 1974.

MARYLAND PENITENTIARY (Prisoners Record) MSA S275, Mark Caesar, #3921, MSA S 275-2, MdHR 5656.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY (Laws, Original) MSA S966, Chapter 368, "An Act to authorise and require the Warden and Keepers of the Penitentiary of Maryland, to receive and keep negro William Wheeler, now under sentence of death into Penitentiary, in the event of the commutation  of his sentence by the Governor", Dates: 1845, MSA S 966-307, MdHR 6-306.

Charles County Register of Wills(Certificates of Freedom), 1826-1860 CM972-1 Microfilm reel# CR 47,246-2
Index gives owner John Barnes freeing "Man Mark," but no other information, no year, may not be relevant because other findings (AA Co. Census of 1810) indicate he may have been born free.

MARYLAND INDEXES (Freedom Records, AA Index), 1805-1864 Index 34, MSA S1407
"Cesar, 5'7", c. 32, dark, scars on left ear, freed May 26, 1826
Certificate to Free Negroes, 1805-1864, f. 45a #4747"
(This could possibly be him, but if he was 32 in 1826, he would have been 51 in 1845.)
Charles County Court (Court Records) 1796-1858, 16 vols. T3236

1844-1853-no record of court case, so checked 1818-1819; 1824-1826;1826-1829; 1829-1834; 1834-1838;also checked Equity Records,1845, Index, but could find nothing.

Anne Arundel County Court
(Land Records, Grantee Index, A-H), 1839-1851 CM87 Microfilm Reel #CR 1570
(Land Records, Grantor Index, A-G), 1839-1851CM94 Microfilm Reel #CR 1562
no record that he owned land

Charles County Court
(Land Records), 1658-1851 CM394
(Land Records, Index), 1658-185 CM398
(Land Records, Grantee Index) 1832-1851, BGS2 also Microfilm Reels# CR 5635, CR 25,665-2; Grantor 1851-1887 BGS2, also CR 5635, CR 25,665-2
no record that he owned land

Baltimore County Court
(Land Records), 1659-1851 CM135
(Land Records, Grantee Index), 1653-1849 CM 169
(Land Records, Grantor Index), 1655-1849 CM 170
(Land Records, Grantee Index), 1659-1800, A-G, Microfilm #CR 46,989;
(Land Records, Grantor Index) 1848-1849, Microfilm #WK 1302-1303-2
no record that he owned land

1830 Census
no record in AA County, Charles County, Baltimore County

1840 Census
no record in AA County, Charles County, Baltimore County

1850 Census
no record in AA County, Charles County, Baltimore County

1850 Census
Mark Cesar is listed as a prisoner at the Maryland Penitentiary.

Newspapers and Journals -

"Yesterday Morning Early." Maryland Journal 9 July 1845.

"Bill Wheeler." Maryland Journal 16 July 1845.

"Great panic of the Planters of Charles County." Port Tobacco Times 31 July 1845.

Letter to the Editors. Port Tobacco Times 7 August 1845.

"Slaveholder' Meeting in St. Mary's County." Port Tobacco Times 28 August 1845.

"Charles County Court." Port Tobacco Times 28 August 1845.

"Charles County Court." Port Tobacco Times 4 September 1845.

"Charles County Court." Port Tobacco Times 11 September 1845.

"Sentence of Death." Maryland Journal 17 September 1845.

"Charles County Court." Port Tobacco Times 6 November 1845.

"Charles County Court." Maryland Republican 15 November 1845.


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