John Bowley (b. 1815 - d.? )
MSA SC 5496-15228
Accomplice to slave flight, Dorchester County, 1851 

Sources:

Archival Sources - 

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

Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1847-1852, Volume 776, pp. 61 - 62.

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

Dorchester County Court Papers, 1797-1851 "Levin Stewart to Sundry Negroes".

Newspapers and Journals - 

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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