Rev. Levi D. Travers (b. November 21, 1828 – d. May 26, 1907)
MSA SC 5496-51327
Slave Owner, Dorchester County, Maryland

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BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT (Marriage Licenses) 1777-1851 CM174, Reel WK 1397-1398-3.

DORCHESTER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (Assessment Record) 1852, Election District 4, p. 117-117a. 01/04/05/016

DORCHESTER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (Assessment Record) 1852, Election District 4, p. 121-121a. 01/04/05/016

DORCHESTER COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Chattel Records) 1851-1957 CM427.

DORCHESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF SLAVE STATISTICS (Slave Statistics) for Levi D. Travers, 1867-1868 C738, p. 24-25.

DORCHESTER COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories), William D. Travers, 1857, p 11, MSA CM434-8, CR9029-1a.

DORCHESTER COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills), 1688-1976, CM460, Eliza J. Travers, 1902, JWF 2, folios 355-360.

DORCHESTER COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills), 1688-1976, CM460, Levi D. Travers, 1844, THH 1, folio 184-185.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Levy Travers, 1850, District 3, p. 357 , Lines 17.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Levi Travers, 1860. Dorchester County, District 4, Page, 158, Line 29.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for Levi Travers, 1870. Dorchester County, District 4, Page, 16, Line 29.

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. (New York: Ballantine Book, 2005), p. 148-149.

Jones, Elias. History of Dorchester County, Maryland. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company Press, 1902.

Long, Rev. John Dixon. Pictures of Slavery in Church and State. Self-Published: Philadelphia, PA, 1857.

McCarter, Rev. J. Mayland. Border Methodism and Border Slavery. Collins Printer: Philadelphia, PA, 1859. 

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

Portrait and Biographical Record of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Chapman Publishing Co.: New York, NY (1898).

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

Levi D. Travers' runaway ad for Aaron and Daffney Cornish. from Still, William. Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coales, Publishers, 1872.

Ancestry.com. U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, Alton O'Neil Shenton descendant of Robert Brannock Spedden, 1889-1970.

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