Archives of Maryland
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Larkin Johnson (b. circa 1819 - d. 1885)
MSA SC 5496-047816
Manumitted from Slavery, Montgomery County, Maryland, 1846

Sources:

Archival Sources -

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records) JGH 9, 1862-1863, Larkin Johnson, Pg. 319-320 [MSA CE 63-10]

MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Land Records) STS 2, 1846-1847, Larkin Johnson, Page 336 [MSA CE 148-40]

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records) JGH 8, 1860-1862, Larkin Johnson, Page 625 [MSA CE 63-9]

U.S. Census Record (Census Record, MD) Larkin Johnson, 1850, Anne Arundel County, 5th Election District, Page 449, Line 3 [MSA SM 61-122, M1482]

U.S. Census Record (Census Record, MD) Larkin Johnson, 1860, Montgomery County, 5th Election District, Page 37, Line 17 [MSA SM 61-213, M7223-1]

U.S. Census Record (Census Record, MD) Larkin Johnson, 1870, Montgomery County, 5th Election District, Page 404, Line 6 [MSA SM 61-275, M7256]

Books -

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

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

Ricks, Mary Kay. Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad. New York, NY, Harper Collins Books, 2007.

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