Archives of Maryland
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William Ross (b. circa 1800 - d. 1882)
MSA SC 5496-050635
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 1814

Sources:

Archival Sources -

Claim of Lewis Neth, Case 764. Case Files, compiled ca. 1827 - ca. 1828, documenting the period ca. 1814 - ca. 1828. *ARC Identifier 1174160 / MLR Number PI 177 190*. National Archives, College Park.

Claim of Henrietta Margaret Ogle, Anne Arundel County, Case Files. Ca. 1814-28, 3.5 ft., entry 190, Record Group 76, National Archives, College Park

National Archives Public Records Office, Kew. Admiralty: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Coastguard and related services: Officers' and Ratings' Service Records (Series II) Navy Pay Office: Entry Books of Certificates of Service. ADM 29/26. Royal Navy record, Rolla Ross.

Stoke Damerel Parish Records, Plymouth, England. Marriage record for Rolla Ross and Mary Ann Gloyne, May 16, 1821.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Lewis Neth, 1800, Anne Arundel County, Annapolis, Page 4, Line 11 [MSA SM61-23, M 2054-2].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Lewis Neth, 1810, Anne Arundel County, Annapolis, Page 2, Line 3 [MSA SM61-42, M 2059-2].

Newspapers and Journals -

Untitled. Maryland Gazette and Political Intelligencer 22 December 1814: 2. Maryland State Archives.

The Students' Journal and Hospital Gazette Vol. 10. London, UK: Balliere, Tindall, & Cox, 1882.

"Restoration Archaeology at the Paca House Annapolis." Papers of the Conference on Historic Site Archaeology 2 (1968): 3-32.

Books -

The Queen's Regulations and the Admiralty Instructions for the Government of Her Majesty's Naval Service. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1862.

Alt, William E. and Betty L. Alt. Black Soldiers, White Wars: Black Warriors from Antiquity to the Present. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002.

Beckles, Hilary McD. "'War Dances': Slave Leisure and Anti-Slavery in the British-Colonised Caribbean." Working Slavery, Pricing freedom: Perspectives from the Caribbean, Africa, and the African Diaspora. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2002. 223-246.

Bullard, Mary R. Cumberland Island: A History. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2005.

Clowes, William Claire. The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol. 6. London, UK: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1901.

Mahon, John K. The War of 1812. Gainsville, FL: De Capo Press, 1972.

Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. "Black Freedom Fighters (War of 1812)." Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. Vol. 1: A-N. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007. 62-66.

Smyth, William Henry. The Sailor's Word: A Complete Dictionary of Nautical Terms from the Napoleonic and Victorian Navies. Tucson, AZ: Fireship Press, 2008.

Internet Sources -

England Census Record for Mary A. Ross, 1851, Hampshire, Southampton, St. Mary, District 1p, Page 22, Line 9. Ancestry.com.

England Census Record for Mary A. Ross, 1861, Hampshire, Southampton, Holy Rood, Page 21, Line 11. Ancestry.com.

England Census Record for Rolla Ross, 1871, Hampshire, Southampton, St. Mary, District 32, Page 18, Line 1. Ancestry.com.

England Census Record for Rolla Ross, 1881, Hampshire, Southampton, St. Mary, District 14, Page 34, Line 7. Ancestry.com.

England & Wales, BMD Death Index: 1837-1915. Rolla Ross, Hampshire, Apr-May-Jun 1882. Ancestry.com.

Friends of the Southampton Old Cemetery. http://fosoc.org/the-cemetery/.

Other -

Hampton, Christine. Email Interviews. August 2011.

"The Iphegenia." Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Age of Nelson. http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=1224.


 
 

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