Archives of Maryland
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Margaret Clem (b. circa 1791 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050639
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, St. Inigoes District, St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1815

Biography:

Margaret Clem (a.k.a. Margaret Jones) escaped from George Loker's farm on Sunday, February 19, 1815. She went with six other slaves, including her three daughters, Elizabeth Jones, Lilly Jones, and Julian Jones.1 All seven slaves boarded the British frigate Havannah,2 and were transferred to the Orlando on February 27, 1815.3

Margaret appeared with her children on the list of African American refugees who arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Halifax List recorded approximately two thousand slaves that the British sent there between 1815 and 1818.4
 


Footnotes

1.    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, St. Inigoe's District, March 16, 1813.
       "Halifax List," African Nova Scotians: in the Age of Slavery and Abolition, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management. http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/.

2.    Claim of George Loker.

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."
       "Black Refugees, 1813-1834," 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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