Hanson (b. circa 1822 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-9138
Fled from slavery, Prince George's County, Maryland, 1842
Biography:
Hanson, alias "Frank", described as a rather dark mulatto, ran away from his owner, Notley Maddox on September 26, 1842 at the age of twenty. Hanson had often been sent to the Washington market with vegetables, likely replacing Sam, who was Maddox's previous vegetable man prior to his flight on August 28, 1842. Ironically, Sam was the likely replacement for Maddox's vegetable man before him, John, who ran away with his brother and sister on May 15, 1841.
Notley Maddox lived in Prince George's county, close enough to Washington, DC that he asked people attempting to contact him to write to him at the Washington post office and for anyone capturing the slaves to lodge them in the jail in Washington. The reward he put up for the return of all his slaves reached over one thousand dollars in an October, 1842 newspaper ad in the Daily National Intelligencer. In 1840, Maddox owned fourteen slaves, and had a total of twenty-two people enumerated in his household.
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