Mary Ann Gibson (b. circa 1825 – d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-51355
Maryland State Colonization Society Emigrant to Liberia from Talbot
County, 1835
Biography:
Mary Ann (sometimes recorded as Mary) Gibson was a free resident of
Talbot County, who emigrated from Maryland to Liberia with her parents
Jacob
and Rebecca
Gibson, siblings Joseph,
Henry,
Samuel,
Garrison,
and Louisa,
and cousin Ellen
Gibson.1, 2 The Gibsons left Baltimore on the schooner Harmony
on June 28, 1835 and arrived at Cape Palmas, Liberia on August 23, 1835.3,
4 Mary Ann's father, Jacob, died suddenly in 1836, and her mother
married a William Delany on January 19, 1837.5, 6 The 1838 census
recorded Mary Ann and her siblings living with her mother and step-father.7
However, by1840, her mother was widowed again and raising her children
alone.8, 9 Mary Ann does not appear in the record after 1840.
She may have died, married or left the colony.
3. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society), Manumission Lists, 1832-1839, MSA SC 5977, Film Number M 13248-1, Emigrants, Lines 252-254. Lines 255-260.
4. Hall, Richard L. On Afric’s Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia, 1834-1857. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2003), 451.
5. Ibid, 450.
6. Maryland Colonization Journal, September 1837, Vol. 1, No.12, p. 52.
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