Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Kessiah Bowley (b. 1825 - d. 1897)
MSA SC 5496-15227                                                
Fled from slavery, Dorchester County, 1851

Sources:

Archival Sources - 

Dorchester County Register of Wills (Wills), Book JWF 2, p. 74 -76.

Dorchester County Orphans Court, 1849, THH 1, pp. 150, 172, 177.

Newspapers and Journals - 

"Negro for Sale," The Cambridge Democrat. 29 August 1849.

Books - 

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2004.

Internet Sources - 

Ancestry.com. 1861 Census of Canada, Kent, Canada West, p. 135.

Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census, Dorchester County, District 9, p. 10.

Ancestry.com. 1880 United States Federal Census, Dorchester County, Church Creek, District 29, p. 27. 

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