Archives of Maryland
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Samuel Davis (b. circa 1810 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050569
Accomplice to slave flight, Cracklin District, Montgomery County, Maryland, 1842

Sources:


Archival Sources -

GENERAL ASSEMBLY (Laws), 1826-1827. Description: Acts of 1826, Chapter 229, Section 9. MdHR 820911, 2/2/6/13.

MARYLAND PENITENTIARY, (Prisoner Record), 1811, 1826-1850, [MSA SE65-4]. Samuel Davis, Prisoner Number 3563. Page 23.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, CIRCUIT COURT, (Court Papers), [MSA T414-52], November Term 1842: State of Maryland vs. Samuel Davis, vs. Charles Toogood, and vs. Negro Harriet [Miscellaneous Papers].

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, CIRCUIT COURT, (Court Papers), 1839-1842, [MSA T414-52], November Term 1842. State vs. Negro Cyrus.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, CIRCUIT COURT, (Minutes), 1801-1845, [MSA T413-2]. State of Maryland vs. Sam Davis, November Term 1842.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Samuel Davis, 1840, Montgomery County, Cracklin District, Page 21, Line 14 [MSA SM61-113, M 4722].


Newspapers and Journals -

"[Untitled]." Baltimore Sun 28 November 1842: 2. Baltimore Sun Historical Archive. Enoch Pratt Free Library.


Books -

Phillips, Christopher. Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997.



 

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