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Leah Anthony (b. circa 1829 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-8020
Fled from slavery, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1857

Sources:


Archival Sources -

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), Samuel Pattison, 1850, p 26, Dorchester, 7th Election District, M 4723-1, MSA SM 61-114.



Newspapers and Journals -

"Fourteen Head of Negroes", 26 October, 1857.

"More Runaways," Easton Star, 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. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2004.


Internet Sources -

Ancestry.com.1861 Census of Canada, St. Catharine's, Lincoln County, District 4, p. 56.

Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census. Elmira, Chemung County, NY, Ward 3, p. 44.



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