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George Boman (b. circa 1808 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050620
Part of large slave flight from Poolesville area, Montgomery County, Maryland, 1831

Biography:

On July 16, 1831, George Boman fled with Peter Boman and Beverly Davis from John P. C. Peter's farm. In his runaway advertisement in the Daily National Intelligencer, the slaveholder identified George Boman as "about twenty-three years of age, of the same complexion [as his brother Peter]; more regular features, not so stout in his person, and about five feet eleven inches high."1 John P. C. Peter, whose farm stood in Seneca Mills, believed that the fugitive slaves had headed toward Pennsylvania. They likely joined a larger group of fugitives from the same area: Collin Brooks, Joe Carroll, Beverly Davis, Davy, Daniel Jackson, Tobias Martin, Clem Proctor, Peter Reader, George Swine, and Sandy Swine.

The Boman brothers 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.
 


Researched and written by Rachel Frazier, 2010.

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