Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Rixom Webb (b. circa ? - d. 1846)
MSA SC 5496-051244
Black Property Owner, Caroline County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources -

DORCHESTER COUNTY COURT (Marriage Licenses) [MSA C717-2]

CAROLINE COUNTY LEVY COURT (Assessors Field Book) 1841, Rixom Webb (Negro), pg. 16 & 74, [C472].

CAROLINE COUNTY LEVY COURT (Tax List) 1846, Rixsom Webb, pg. 28 & 43, [C571].

CAROLINE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories) 1843-1847, Ricksum Webb, WAF C pg. 447, [C516-10].

CAROLINE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills) 1825-1853, WAF A, [MSA C577-6]

DORCHESTER COUNTY COURT (Chattel Records) [MSA C691], 1842-1847, Rixom Webb to Anthony C. Thompson, WJ 2, i,1/4/4/43

Newspapers and Journals -

"Five Dollar Reward," Cambridge Chronicle, 27 April 1844.

Wright, Capt. Charles W. "The Rise of Methodism in the Lower Part of Caroline County, Maryland." Denton Journal, 10 January 1910.

"Legislative Acts or Legal Proceedings," Baltimore Sun, 13 February, 1846.

Books -

Harris, Abram L. The Negro as Capitalist: a Study of Banking and Business Among American Negroes. New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1936.

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriett Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 2004.

Internet Sources -

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