Sarah Duvall (b. 1784 - d. 1839)
MSA SC 5496-0011626
Slaveholder in Berry's District, Montgomery County, Maryland
Biography:
Sarah Duvall was born on March 1, 1784 to Mareen Duvall and his wife Sarah Conn. She had five siblings: Benjamin, William Mareen, Mareen, Walter, and Sarah, who had died in childhood. When Sarah Duvall's father died in 1807, he bequeathed her seven slaves1 and the western half of his plantation. Sarah's brother, Benjamin, received the eastern half. The land was part of a tract called "Hermitage."2
In 1830, Sarah Duvall advertised
for the capture of a runaway slave named Caroline
Landick, who escaped in late December.3 In 1834, Duvall
purchased two hundred and twenty-one acres of land from the late Erasmus
Perry's estate.4 Like her inheritance, the land was part of
the tract "Hermitage." Duvall passed away in 1839,5 leaving
her entire estate—including all of her slaves—to her nephew Dr. Washington
Duvall, the son of Dr. Benjamin Duvall.
1. Harry Wright Newman. Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation (Washingon, D.C.: Published by the author, 1952) 477.
2. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, REGISTER OF WILLS, (Wills, Original), 1803-1807, [MSA C1142-5]. Mareen Duvall, November 5, 1807.
3. "$30 Reward." Daily National Intelligencer 8 January 1831. Maryland State Archives.
4. MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Land Records), Liber BS 7, Folio 22, 1834-1836, [MSA CE 148-33]. Benjamin S. Forrest, trustee, to Sarah Duvall, December 16, 1834.
5. Newman 477 and 492
MONTGOMERY
COUNTY, REGISTER OF WILLS, (Wills, Original), 1840-1842, [MSA C1142-14].
Sarah Duvall, January 21, 1840.
Researched and written by Rachel Frazier, 2010.
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