Archives of Maryland
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Edmund Pembleton (b. circa 1805 – d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-51339
Maryland State Colonization Society Emigrant to Liberia from Caroline County, 1832

Biography:

Edmund was freed by Mary Gordon of Talbot County. His manumission was for the express purpose of him going to Liberia, observing the colony for six months, and returning to the United States to report on his findings.1 He sailed from Baltimore on the Lafayette on December 9, 1832, arriving at Monrovia on February 7, 1833. He returned to the United States in 1833.2


1. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society), Emigrants, 1832-1839, MSA SC 5977, Film Number M 13248-1, Line 44.

2. Hall, Richard L. On Afric’s Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia, 1834-1857. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2003), p. 442.
 

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