Aaron Cornish (b. circa 1822 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-8022
Fled from slavery, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1857

Sources:

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

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

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

Long, Rev. John Dixon. Pictures of Slavery in Church and State. Self-Published: Philadelphia, PA, 1857. 

McCarter, Rev. J. Mayland. Border Methodism and Border Slavery. Collins Printer: Philadelphia, PA, 1859. 

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

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

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

Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census, Slave Schedule, Dorchester, Maryland, District 3, p. 8.

Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census, Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. 

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