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Joseph Sinnett (b. ? - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-3403
Accomplice to slave flight, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1852

Biography:

Reputed to be a drunkard, the Englishman Sinnett worked as a common laborer in Baltimore County.  In December 1852, having been convicted of enticing and persuading a slave to flee, the literate, single man, who had never been bound-out, began a sentence he would serve until receiving a pardon in May 1859.

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