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Hamilton Edmonson (b. circa 1815 - d.?)
MSA SC 5496-003805
Fled from Slavery, Montgomery County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources -

BALTIMORE COUNTY JAIL (Runaway Docket), 1831 - 1832; MSA C2063

BALTIMORE CITY & COUNTY JAIL (Runaway Docket), 1832 - 1836, 2/72/4/19, Docket #427, MSA C2064

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories), Henry Culver, C1228, 1827-1829, 1/25/9/14, p. 114

Newspapers and Journals -

Paynter, John H. "The Fugititves of the Pearl." The Journal of Negro History (1916), 243-264.

Books -

Pacheco, Josephine. The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac. North Carolina: UNC Press, 2005.

Ricks, Mary Kay. Escape on the Pearl. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007.

Internet Sources -

1870 United States Federal Census; New Orleans Ward 10, Orleans, Louisiana; Roll  M593_524; Page: 312A; Image: 323; Family History Library Film: 552023.

1880 United States Federal Census; New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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