Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Leah Hantes (b. circa 1766 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050638
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, St. Mary's County, Maryland

Biography:

Forty-nine-year-old Leah Hantes escaped from George Loker's farm along with six other slaves1 on Sunday, February 19, 1815. They boarded the British frigate Havannah,2 and were transferred to the Orlando on February 27, 1815.3 Four of the Hantes' fellow slaves—Margaret Clem and her three daughters—were listed among slaves who arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, between 1815 and 1818. However, Hantes did not appear on the list.4
 


Footnotes

1.     U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for George Loker, 1810, St. Mary's County, Page 26, 4th line from bottom [MSA SM61-56, M 2061-3].

2.     Claim of George Loker, Case 121, 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.
        Definitive List of Slaves and Property, compiled ca. 1827 - ca. 1828, ARC Identifier 1174162 / MLR Number PI 177 192. National Archives, College Park.
        ST. MARY'S COUNTY, COMMISSIONERS OF THE TAX, (Assessment Record, Slaves), 1813, [MSA C1544-34]. George Loker, March 16, 1813, St. Inigoe's District. Maryland State Archives.

3.     Thomas M. Bayly, No. III, Bayly's List (RG 76. Records of Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitration. Records of the Mixed Claims Commission: Miscellaneous Records) 107, 112.

4.     "Halifax List," African Nova Scotians: in the Age of Slavery and Abolition, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/.
 

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