Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Margaret Morgan
MSA SC 5496-8784
Fled from slavery, Harford County, 1832

Sources:

Archival Sources -

HARFORD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills), CM599, 1814-1832, MSA CM599-4.

HARFORD COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Estate Papers), John Ashmore, 1824. 

GENERAL ASSEMBLY (Session Laws), 1837, Volume 601, p. 452. 

Governor (Letterbook). 1838-1896. Letters to Governor Veazey from Ths. Culbreth, pp. 553 - 571.

Harford County Court (Certificates of Freedom), 1806-1842.

Newspapers and Journals -

"Case of Bemis and Others," Baltimore Sun, 18 January, 1838. 

Dorchester Aurora, 28 January 1838. 

Finkelman, Paul. "Sorting out Prigg v. Pennsylvania." Rutgers Law Journal, 24-3 (1993), pp. 605 ff.

Finkelman, Paul. "Story Telling on the Supreme Court: Prigg v. Pennsylvania and Justice Joseph Story's Judicial Nationalism." The Supreme Court Review, Vol. 1994 (1994), pp. 247-294.

Books -

Argument of Mr. Hambly, of York, PA, in the case of Edward Prigg, Plaintiff in Error vs. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Defendant in Error: In the Supreme Court of the United States. Lucas & Deaver: Baltimore (1842).

Samuel Mason Jr., Historical Sketches in Harford County, Maryland. (Intelligencer Printing Company: Lancaster, PA, 1940) p. 118.

Carolyn Greenfield Adams, Slave Manumissions and Sales in Harford County, Maryland: 1775-1865. (Heritage Books: Bowie, MD, 1999) p. xi.

Internet Sources -

Ancestry.com. 1820 United States Federal Census. Harford County, Maryland, District 5, p. 7.

Ancestry.com. 1830 United States Federal Census. Harford County, Maryland, Dublin District, p. 29.

U.S. Supreme Court, Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 16 Pet. 539 539 (1842).

Fugitive Slave Law, 1850
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