Zenos Dawson, MSA SC 5496-51280

Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Zenos Dawson (b. 1830 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-51280
Kidnapper, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources -

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Criminal Docket), Zenos Dawson, May Term 1852, Docket No. 50, 53. [MSA C1385-2].

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, (Land Records), Zenos Dawson to James E. Dillen. Liber JP 3, folio 276, 1856-1858. [MSA C1427-3].

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Minutes, Rough), Zenos Dawson, May Term 1852. [MSA C1474-2].

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Minutes, Rough), James Bordley, November Term 1852. [MSA C1474-2].

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), Clinton Gibbs, 1850, Reel No. 0158, Queen Anne's, 3rd Election District [MSA SM61-144, M 1500-1].

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), Sarah Gibbs, 1850, Reel No. 0158, Queen Anne's, 3rd Election District [MSA SM61-144, M 1500-1].

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), Zenos Dawson, 1850, Reel No. 0072, Queen Anne's, 2nd Election District [MSA SM61-144, M 1500-1].

Newspapers and Journals -

"Arrest of Supposed Kidnappers." Baltimore Sun, 16 December 1850, p. 2.

"The Centreville Kidnapping Case." Baltimore Sun, 27 December 1850, p. 2.

Books -

Clayton, Ralph. Slavery, Slaveholding, and the Free Black Population of Antebellum Baltimore. Bowie, MD: Heritage, 1993