William Hitch
MSA SC 5496-3878
Jailed as fugitive slave from Somerset County, 1836 

Biography:

    William Hitch was committed to the Baltimore jail in 1836, accused of being a fugitive slave. Admitted on February 12, he was released to his Somerset County owner Robert Stewart the next day.
 

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