Henry Gross (b. circa 1809 - d. circa ?)
MSA SC 5496-051240
Escaped from Bennet's Point, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1832
Biography:
Henry Gross escaped from Bennett's Point in Queen Anne's County in 1832.1 He had been a slave of John Lloyd Tilghman, who had died earlier in 1832.2 By escaping that year, he may have exploited the confusion in the household resulting from Tilghman's death. Maria Elizabeth Tilghman (nee Gibson), Tilghman's widow and the administratrix of his estate, placed a runaway ad in the Centreville Times and Public Advertiser. The ad running from April 26 through May 12, 1832. He offered a $100 reward.3
Tilghman believed that Gross may have sailed to Baltimore in a vessel
from the Wye River area. He added that Gross's mother lived in Queenstown,
providing another possible place to which the fugitive slave may have fled.4
2. QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY COURT (Land Records), Liber TM 5, Folio 497, 1828-1831, MSA CE 143-35. John L. Tilghman to John Wright, June 15, 1830.
3. "$100 Reward." Centreville
Times and Public Advertiser 28 April 1832: 3.
George A.
Hanson. Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland (Baltimore, MD:
John P. Des Forges, 1876) 253.
"Tilghman
Family." Maryland Historical Magazine 1.4 (1906): 373.
4. Stephen F. Tillman.
Tilghman-Tillman
Family, 1225-1945 (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1946) 80.
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