Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Charles (b. circa 1829 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050601
Escaped from near Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, 1857

Biography:

In March 1856, Charles (last name currently unknown) fled his enslavement on Dr. Charles J. Maddox's farm in the Rockville District.1 On March 27th, Dr. Maddox placed a runaway advertisement in the Montgomery County Sentinel, offering a seventy-five-dollar reward for Charles' capture.2 Maddox described Charles as "about 28 years of age, dark copper color, and slightly marked with small pox." When he escaped, he wore "a dark full cloth coat, light pants, and a black slouch hat." Charles had worked on Dr. Maddox's farm along with six other slaves: Joe, age 11; George, age 23; John, age 24; Hanson, age 50; and Leah, age 53.3 It is not currently known if any of the individuals were related.


1.     "$75 Reward." Montgomery County Sentinel 27 March 1856: 2. Maryland State Archives.

2.     Montgomery County District 4, Simon J. Martenet, Martenet and Bond's Map of Montgomery County, 1865, Library of Congress, MSA SC 1213-1-464.
        U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Record for Charles J. Maddox,1863-1864, Page 20, Line 24. Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.

3.     MONTGOMERY COUNTY, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, (Assessment Record, Slaves), 1853-1864, [MSA C1112-1]. Charles J. Maddox, 1855, 4th District, Page 133.
   

Researched and written by Rachel Frazier, 2010.

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