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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