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Peter Pennington (b. circa 1831 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-8252
Fled from Slavery, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1856

Sources:

Archival Sources -

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

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.

Newspapers -

"Two Thousand Six Hundred Dollars Reward," Baltimore Sun, 22 November 1856. 

"$800 Reward," 26 November 1856.

Internet Sources -

Ancestry.com. 1871 Census of Canada, Sarnia, Ontario, p. 111.

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