General Saunders (b. circa 1793 - d. 1869)
MSA SC 5496-050640
War of 1812 Escaped Slave, Calvert County, Maryland, 1814

Sources:

Archival Sources -

Bayly, Thomas M. No. III, Bayly's List. (RG 76. Records of Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitration. Records of the Mixed Claims Commission: Miscellaneous Records. Ca. 1814-28, 7 vols., entry 185. Vol. 2 of 11. National Archives, College Park)

Calvert County District 3, Simon J. Martenet, Map of Calvert County, 1860, Library of Congress, [MSA SC 1213-1-117].

Calvert County. Simon J. Martenet, Martenet's Atlas of Maryland, 1865, Huntingfield Collection, [MSA SC 1339-1-75].

Claim of John H. Chew, Case 306. 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 Thomas Reynolds, Case 149. 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.

Thomas Reynolds, No. 149. RG 76. Records of Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitration. Records of the Mixed Claims Commission: Miscellaneous Records. Ca. 1814-28, 7 vols., entry 185. Vol. 4 of 11. National Archives, College Park.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Thomas Reynolds, 1800, Calvert County, All Saints Parish, Page 19, 4th line from bottom [MSA SM61-25, M 2054-4].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Thomas Reynolds, 1810, Calvert County, Page 12b, Line 21 [MSA SM61-45, M 2060-1].

Newspapers and Journals -

"Sale of Sharp's Island, &c." Baltimore Sun 22 April 1882: 2. Baltimore Sun Historical Archive. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Hall, Wiley, ed. "The Colonial Marines." The Maryland Natural Resource 11.4 (Fall 2008): 9. Maryland State Archives.

Books -

Crawford, Michael J. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History. Vol. 3. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Offic, 1985.

Douglas, Bruce C., Michael S. Kearney, and Stephen P. Leatherman, ed. Sea Level Rise: History and Consequences. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2001.

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.

Weiss, John McNish. The Merikens: Free Black American Settlers In Trinidad 1815-16. London, UK: McNish & Weiss, 2002.

Whitfield, Harvey Amani. Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860. Lebanon, NH: University of Vermont Press, 2006.

Internet Sources -

"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/.

"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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