Archives of Maryland
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James L. Bowers (b. 1810 - d. 1882)
MSA SC 5496-8991
Accomplice to slave flight, Kent County, Maryland, 1858

Sources:


Archival Sources -

KENT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records) Book JKH 5, 1865-1866, pp. 23 - 24. 

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), James L. Bowers, 1850, Kent County, page 245, MSA SM 61-141, M 1498-2.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), Samuel E. Baker, 1850, Kent County, page 252, MSA SM 61-141, M 1498-2.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), Isaac Perkins, 1850, Kent County, page 245, MSA SM 61-141, M 1498-2.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), James A. Pearce and E.F. Chambers,1850, Kent County, Slave Schedule, page 289, MSA SM 61-167, M 1505-4.

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), Samuel E. Baker, 1850, Kent County, Slave Schedule, page 301, MSA SM 61-167, M 1505-4.


Newspapers and Journals

"Slaveholders Protecting Themselves," The Planters Advocate, 21 July 1858.

"Lynch Law in Maryland," The Cecil Whig, 03 July 1858.

"We Published Two Weeks Ago," The Cecil Whig, 17 July 1858.

"Meeting at Chestertown," The Cecil Whig, 24 July 1858.

"The Slavery Question," The Cecil Whig, 24 July 1858.

"Another Excitement at Chestertown," The Cecil Whig, 23 October 1858.

"Meeting of Slaveholders on the Eastern Shore of Maryland," Baltimore American, 19 July 1858.

"Excitement in Maryland - An Outrarge," The Liberator, 23 July 1858.

"Mob Law in Maryland," The Liberator, 19 November, 1858.


Books -

Fields, Barbara Jeanne.  Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground:  Maryland During the 19th Century.  New York:  Yale University Press, 1985, 63-67.

Carroll, Kenneth. Quakerism on the Eastern Shore. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1970, p. 142.

Internet Sources -

Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census. Kent County, District 2, pp. 74 - 75.

Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census. Camden, New Jersey, South Ward, p. 88.

Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census. Kent County, District 3, p. 58. 

Ancestry.com. 1880 United States Federal Census. Kent County, Worton, p. 3.

Ancestry.com. Delaware Death Records, 1811 - 1933.

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