Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

George Berry (b. ? - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496 - 15144
Accomplice to Slave Flight, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 1850s

Biography:

George Berry was a free black who lived in Maryland during the mid-19th century.  He married the mother of Caroline Hammond, an Anne Arundel County slave who was owned by a wealthy landowner named Thomas Davidson.  In either the late 1850s or early 1860s, Berry fled to Pennsylvania along with his new wife and daughter.  After a stint in Hanover and Scranton, Pennsylvania, Berry moved back to Baltimore with his family in 1869.

It is possible that George Berry was a well known carpenter or drayman in Baltimore City during the 1850s.  It is doubtful that he was a resident of Anne Arundel County before he married Caroline's mother.

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