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Peter Jackson (b. circa 1826 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-8288
Fled from Slavery, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1854

Sources:


Original Research -

Blondo, Richard A.  Samuel Green: A Black Life in Antebellum Maryland. Unpublished M.A. Thesis. University of Maryland, 1988.  MSA SC 2248


Archival Sources -


Newspapers and Journals -

"$200 Reward" Cambridge Chonicle. 23 November 1850.


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. 1850 United States Federal Census, Slave Schedule. Dorchester County, MD, District 1, pp. 33,   p. 30.

East New Market: Correspondance, 10 September 1854. <http://collinsfactor.com/newspaper/1854sep10.htm>.

Ancestry.com. 1861 Census of Canada, Kent County, Harwich, p. 493. 

Ancestry.com. 1871 Census of Canada, Kent County, Harwich, p. 135.

Ancestry.com. 1881 Census of Canada, Kent County, Harwich, p. 116.


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