Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)
Arthur W. Leverton (b. 1806 - d. 1880)
MSA SC 5496-24684
Acomplice to
slave flight, Caroline County, Maryland, 1858
Sources:
Archival Sources -
CAROLINE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Docket),
1837-1933.
DORCHESTER
COUNTY COURT (Chattel Records) 1827-1851,
Book ER 2, p. 279.
CAROLINE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land
Records), Book RJ 29, pp. 434 - 435.
Newspapers -
"Runaways
and Arrests," Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser. 14 January,
1858.
"More Runaways from Dorchester," Easton
Gazette. 9 January 1858.
"Departure of a Conductor of the Under Ground," Easton
Gazette. 23 January, 1858.
"American Slavery," Friends'
Intelligencer, Vol. XV, No. 2, Third Month 27, 1858.
Kelley,
William T. "Underground R.R. Reminiscences." Friends'
Intelligencer and Journal, Volume 55, p. 264-265 (1898).
Secondary Sources -
Guida, Patricia C. Arthur
W. Leverton, Underground Railroad Agent, and His Family: The Levertons,
Whiteleys and Wrights. Caroline County Historical Society Inc. 2007.
Guida, Patricia C. comp.
Arthur
W. Leverton, Marriage, Births, Deaths, Certificates of Removal. Caroline
County Historical Society Inc. 2007.
Hardy,
Tanya: Interracial Relations in Antebellum Maryland.
Internet
Sources -
Ancestry.com.
1850 United States Federal Census, Caroline County, Maryland, p. 181.
Ancestry.com. 1860 United States
Federal Census, Marion County, Indiana, p. 20.
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, "Jacob and Hannah Leverton Home."
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