Archives of Maryland
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Susan (b. ? - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050589
Escaped from the Cracklin District, Montgomery County, Maryland, 1832

Biography:

On April 17, 1832, a slave named Susan was committed as a runaway to the Baltimore County Jail. On April 20th, the warden David H. Hudson released Susan to "Samuel Riggs of Reuben," who paid the mandatory six dollars for her release.1 She was likely enslaved on Riggs' farm near Laytonsville in Montgomery County.2  Unfortunately, Susan's age is unknown. No slaves census records exist for Montgomery County, Maryland, for 1830. When the first slave assessment records for the county were taken in 1853, Susan did not appear among Rigg's fifteen slaves.3
 

1.     BALTIMORE COUNTY JAIL, (Runaway Docket),1831-1832, [MSA C2063-1]. Susan, April 17, 1832, Docket No. 183.

2.     Montgomery County District 1, Simon J. Martenet, Martenet and Bond's Map of Montgomery County, 1865, Library of Congress, [MSA SC 1213-1-464].

3.     MONTGOMERY COUNTY, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, (Assessment Record, Slaves), 1853-1864, [MSA C1112-1]. Samuel Riggs of R., 1st Election District, 1853, Pg. 9.
 

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