Paul Edmonson (b. circa 1785 - d. 1863)
MSA SC 5496-15204
Montgomery County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources -

BALTIMORE COUNTY JAIL (Runaway Docket), 1831 - 1832; MSA C2063

BALTIMORE CITY & COUNTY JAIL (Runaway Docket), 1832 - 1836, 2/72/4/19, Docket #427, MSA C2064

MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Land Records), Paul Edmonson, 1835, p. 414, liber BS 7,  MSA CE 148-33.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Land Records), Paul Edmonson, 1847, pg. 198, liber STS 3, [MSA CE 148-41].

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records), Paul Edmonson,  JGH 6, pg. 263, 1857-1858 [MSA CE 63-7].

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), Paul Edmonson, 1840, p. 63, MO, 6th Election District, M 4723-1, MSA SM 61-114.

U.S. Census Record (Census Record, MD) Paul Edmonson, 1850, Montgomery County, 5th Election District, Page 37, Line 17 [MSA SM 61-142, M1499-1]

Newspapers and Journals -

Hampden. "Prisoners in the Pearl." Friends Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal. (1849) Vol 2., 60-62.

Books -

Clayton, Ralph. Cash For Blood:  The Baltimore to New Orleans Domestic Slave Trade. Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, Inc., 2002.

Hynson, Jerry. Free African Americans of Maryland 1832. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1998.

Pacheco, Josephine. The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac. North Carolina: UNC Press, 2005.

Ricks, Mary Kay. Escape on the Pearl. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007.

Internet Sources -

1860 United States Census; Census Place: Ward 1, Washington, District of Columbia; Roll  M653_102; Page: 243; Image: 35; Family History Library Film: 803102. Ancestry.com

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