Daffney Cornish (b. 1824 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-8012
Fled from slavery, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1857

Sources:

Archival Sources - 

DORCHESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF SLAVE STATISTICS (Slave Statistics) 1867-1868.

DORCHESTER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (Assessment Record) "Reuben E. Phillips", 1852-1910, C687, Election District 7, p. 162.

U.S. Census (Slave Schedules, MD) for Elliott Phillips, 1850. Dorchester County, District 1, p. 25, Lines 33-41.

DORCHESTER COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories), William D. Travers, 1857, p 11, MSA CM434-8, CR9029-1a.  - p. 17(Negroes Listed)

Newspapers - 

$3,100 Reward, Baltimore Sun, 28 October 1857.

"$300 Reward." Cambridge Democrat. 4 November 1857.

Books -

Still, William. Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coales, Publishers, 1872. 

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. Ballantine Books: New York, NY, 2004.

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