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Mildred Reeves (b. circa 1804 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-51108
War of 1812 Refugee, Prince George's County, Maryland

Biography:

Mildred "Milley" Reeves was born around  1804 in Prince George's County, Maryland to Richard and Priscilla Reeves. Milley along with her parents andher four siblings Anne, Bill, Priss, and Mildred (Milley) were enslaved at the home of Joseph and Mary Lyles Coombs in the Swan Creek Neck area of southern Prince George's County, Maryland. 

In 1814, at the age of 10 Mildred escaped from Mary L. Coombs with her parents, three of her siblings, and other enslaved families. Many enslaved people in Prince George's County were escaping to British ships which had placed a blockade on Maryland waterways. The British commander Admiral Alexander Cochrane issued a proclamation twice in April, offering immediate emancipationt to anyone who wished to take up arms against America or wished to be resetteled in a British territory. Milley and her family settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the Windsor Road.  

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