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Reuben Elliott Phillips (b. circa 1806 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-51324
Slave Owner, Dorchester County, Maryland

Sources:

DORCHESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF SLAVE STATISTICS (Slave Statistics) 1867-1868. Slave Statistics p.151-151a

DORCHESTER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (Assessment Record) for Reuben E. Phillips 1852-1910 C687, Election District 7, p. 162. 01/04/05/019

DORCHESTER COUNTY COURT (Marriage Licenses) CM447, 1780-1841.

U.S. Census (U.S. Census, MD) for Elliott Phillips, 1850 Dorchester County, District 1, Page 36, Lines 40-42. Page 37, Lines 1-5.

U.S. Census (Slave Schedules, MD) for Elliott Phillips, 1850. Dorchester County, District 1, p. 25, Lines 33-41.

U.S. Census (U.S. Census, MD) for Elliott Phillips,1860 Dorchester County, District 7, Page 371, Lines 5-13.

U.S. Census (Slave Schedules) for Elliott Phillips, 1860. Dorchester County, District 7, p. 45, Lines 27-36.

U.S. Census (U.S. Census, MD) for R.E. Phillips, 1870 Dorchester County, District 7, Page 56, Lines 4-11.



Newspapers and Journals

$3,100 Reward, Baltimore Sun, 28 October 1857.

"More Runaways," Easton Star, 4 November 1857.



Books

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York: Ballantine Book, 2005.

Still, William. Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coales, Publishers, 1872, p.99, 101-102.


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