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Leethe Brown (b. ? - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-5937
Accomplice to slave flight, Prince George's County, Maryland, 1864

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GOVERNOR (Proceedings) MSA S1072, January 5, 1864, page 162, Governor issues requisitions…, Dates: 1861-1869, Accession No.: 7897
    MSA No.: S 1072-5.

MARYLAND INDEXES (Freedom Records, PG, Index) 'B', 1806-1869, MSA S1411-02, Bowie, John E. of the 3rd Election District, Declared William,
   Brown, age 24, drafted at Ellicotts Mills in 1864 and entered service, no compensation, Prince George's Slave Statistics, 1867-1868, p. 207. See also below PG
    County Slave Schedules.

MARYLAND INDEXES (Freedom Records, PG, Index) 'B', 1806-1869, MSA S1411-02, Bowie, John E. of the 3rd Election District, Declared William H.
    Lee, age 16, Prince George's Slave Statistics, 1867-1868, p. 207.

MARYLAND INDEXES (Freedom Records, PG, Index) 'B', 1806-1869 MSA S1411-02, Eversfield, Charles E. of the 4th Election District, Declared Bill
    Lee, age 34, Prince George's Slave Statistics, 1867-1868, p. 88. It is unclear from the record is this is William Lee MSA 5496-5939.

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF SLAVE STATISTICS, (Slave Statistics, Original) MSA C1308, John E. Bowie, Folder 40230-10 B
    (freeing William Brown, age 24), (p 207 Slave Statistics), Dates: 1867-1869, Description: A-D, Accession No.: 40,230-1/33, MSA No.: C 1308-1.

SECRETARY OF STATE (Requisition Docket) MSA S1113, Requisitions on the District of Columbia by the Governor of MD, January 5, 1864, #40, William
    Brown and Lethe Brown (Negroes), #41, William Brown (slave of John E. Bowie, PG County), #42, William Lee (slave of Charles E. Eversfield, PG County),
    #43, Henry Norton (slave of Thomas Brown, PG County), #44, John Kemp, Dates: 1862-1892, Accession No.: 5271, MSA No.: S 1113-1.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, William Brown, p 37, Dates: 1840, Description: PG. 8, pp. 1-69, Accession No.: M 4723-1,
    MSA No.: SM 61- 114.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, John Bowie, Bladensburg, Dates: 1850, Description: Slaves, PG, Accession No.: M 1505-6
    MSA No.: SM 61- 169.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, Thomas Brown, election district 6, p 572, Dates: 1860, Description: PG. 13, pp. 335-620,
    Accession No.: M 7223-2, MSA No.: SM 61- 214.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, Thomas Brown, election district 6, Dates: 1860, Description: Slaves, PG, Accession No.: M
    7230-3, MSA No.: SM 61- 240.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, Charles E. Eversfield, election district 4, p 608, Dates: 1860, Description: PG. 13, pp. 335-620,
    Accession No.: M 7223-2, MSA No.: SM 61- 214.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, Charles E. Eversfield, election district 4, Dates: 1860, Description: Slaves, PG, Accession No.: M
    7230-3, MSA No.: SM 61- 240.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, Lethe Brown, p 579, Dates: 1860, Description: PG. 13, pp. 335-620, Accession No.: M 7223-2
    MSA No.: SM 61- 214.

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