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William Lee (b. ? - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-5939
Accomplice to slave flight, Prince George's County, Maryland, 1864

Biography:

William Lee, the slave of Charles E. Eversfield of Prince George's County, who was a slave, was one of six Blacks who all stood charged with the crime of eniticing and assisting slaves to run away from their masters in Prince George's County.  The other Blacks chages were slaves William Brown and Henry Norton, along with three free Blacks (William and Leethe Brown, and John Kemp).  And on the same day, January 5, 1864, they all had requisitions placed on them and issued to the District of Columbia by Governor A.W. Bradford.  The Governor appointed Judson F. Richardson, Sheriff of Prince George's County, Agent to receive the six requisitioned persons.  John Kemp and Henry Norton were both charged a second time with enticing slaves to run away and then requisitioned again by Governor A.W. Bradford on May 6, 1864.  This second charge of Kemp and Norton enticing slaves to run away could be evidence of a systematic network of assisting slaves in their flight.

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