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Caroline Parker (b. 1835 - d. by 1837)
MSA SC 5496-51362
Maryland State Colonization Society Emigrant to Liberia from Queen Anne's County, 1835

Biography:

Caroline Parker was a freeborn resident of Queen Anne's County. She emigrated to Liberia with her parents, Eben and Charlotte Parker, and sisters, Amie, Elizabeth, Kitty, and Charlotte Ann.1 On December 24, 1835, the family sailed from Baltimore on the brig Fortune, arriving at Cape Palmas, Liberia on February 4, 1836.2 By 1837, Caroline was absent from the census, suggesting that she had passed away.3


1. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society), Manumission Lists, 1832-1839, MSA SC 5977, Film Number M 13248-1, Emigrants, Lines 291-297.

2. Hall, Richard L. On Afric’s Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia, 1834-1857. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2003), 453.

3. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society), Subscribers Reports Census, 1817-1902, MSA SC 5977, Film Number M 13247-1, 1837 Census.

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