Peter Boman (b. circa 1806 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050619
Part of large slave flight from Poolesville area, Montgomery County,
Maryland, 1831
Biography:
On July 16, 1831, Peter Boman, George Boman, and Beverly Davis fled their enslavement on Montevideo, the Seneca Mills farm of John P. C. Peter. The slaveholder identified Peter Boman as "twenty-five years of age, very dark complexion, coarse features, stout made, and about five feet nine or ten inches high."1 Both he and his brother George had worked as field hands at Montevideo.2 Peter believed that the group had run towards Pennsylvania.They likely joined a larger group of fugitives from the same area: Collin Brooks, Joe Carroll, Beverly Davis, Davy, Daniel Jackson, Tobias Martin, Peter Reader, George Swine, and Sandy Swine.
Peter and his brother were still fugitives in 1832 when another slave,
John
Crompton, fled from the Poolesville area to join them.
1. "150 Dollars Reward." Daily National Intelligencer 28 July 1831: 1.
2. Roger Brooke Farquhar.
Historic
Montgomery County, Maryland: Old Homes and History (Silver Spring,
MD: Published by the author, 1962) 217-221.
Michael Dwyer.
Montgomery
County (Charleston, SC: Arcadea Publishing, 2006) 64.]
"Montevideo."
M: 17-58. Maryland Historical Trust. www.mdihp.net.
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