James D. Mitchell (b. circa ? - d. 1837)
MSA SC 5496-051263
Property Owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland
Biography:
The son of Francis J. Mitchell, James Davidson Mitchell lived in Charles County with his wife, Elizabeth Ann.1 In 1828, he and his sister Sarah E. Mitchell inherited part of the farm Cedar Dale, near Queenstown. The farm had once belonged to Colonel Richard Tilghman.2 One of James's brothers, George, had lived at Cedar Dale until moving away in 1811.3 James D. Mitchell does not appear as a property owner in census records for Queen Anne's County, since the 1830 census for that county no longer exists, and he had died before the 1840 census. However, his brother Henry S. Mitchell was living in the county in 1840, even appearing on J.G. Stong's map of District 5 in 1866, likely on the same property that James D. Mitchell had once owned.4
On September 7, 1833, James D. Mitchell advertised in the Centreville Times for the capture of the fugitive slaves Paul Reason and Edmund.5 He does not state the location from which the slaves fled. Mitchell asked that the fugitives be jailed in Centreville, Queen Anne's County, or in Chestertown, Kent County. Along with his property in Queenstown, Mitchell also owned a farm in Kent County called Hunting Field,6 where ten slaves were working in 1830.7
Mitchell died at Myrtle Grove, his Charles County farm, on August 11,
1837. His will mentioned property in Baltimore City, Charles County, and
Kent County, and his inventory listed thirty-six slaves.8
1. CHARLES COUNTY REGISTER
OF WILLS, (Wills), Liber DJ 16, Folio 105, [WK 246-247-2, MSA CM412-17].
Charles Davidson Mitchell, August 6, 1837.
2.
Oliver Miller. Maryland Reports Containing Cases Argued and Determined
in the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Vol. 6 (Annapolis, MD: Robert
F. Bonsall, 1855) 225.
2.
Hon. John Johnson. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery.
Vol. 3 (Annapolis, MD: James Wingate, 1853) 76.
2. QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY
COURT, (Land Records), Liber TM 5, Folio 41 [MSA CE 143-35]. Richard C.
Tilghman to George Davidson, Henrietta Davidson, James D. Mitchell, and
Sarah E. Mitchell of Charles County, November 21, 1828.
2.
Johnson 76.
3. Mary Bourke Emory. Colonial Families and Their Descendants (Baltimore, MD: Press of the Sun Printing Office, 1900) 197.
4. Queen Anne's County District 5, J. G. Stong's Map of Queen Anne's County, 1866, MSA SC 5080-1, Courtesy of the Queen Anne's County Historical Society.
5. "$50 Reward." Centreville Times 7 September 1833: 4.
6. CHARLES COUNTY REGISTER
OF WILLS, (Wills), Liber DJ 16, Folio 105, [WK 246-247-2, MSA CM412-17].
Charles Davidson Mitchell, August 6, 1837.
2.
Nicholas Brewer. Court of Appeals of Maryland. Vol. 21 (Annapolis,
MD: Robert F. Bonsall, 1866) 245.
7. U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD), for James Mitchell, 1830, Kent County, District 1, Page 405, 9th line from bottom [MSA SM61-92, CM 69-3].
8. CHARLES COUNTY, REGISTER
OF WILLS, (Inventories), Folio 5 [WK 254-255-1, MSA CM386-23]. Estate of
James D. Mitchell, December 11, 1837.
2.
Johnson 76.
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