Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Hannah Leverton (b. 1800 - d. 1866)
MSA SC 5496-51529                                                                                                                                                                                                           Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County

Sources:

Archival Sources -

CAROLINE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Docket) 1837-1933.

CAROLINE COUNTY (Wills) Book WAF #A, pp. 385-387, Jacob Leverton, 11 May 1847.

CAROLINE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records), Book RJ 29, pp. 434 - 435. 

CAROLINE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records), Book JJ 32, p. 143.

Newspapers -

American and Commercial Daily Advertiser. 7 July, 1842.

"Departure of a Conductor of the Under Ground," Easton Gazette. 23 January, 1858.

"American Slavery," Friends' Intelligencer, Vol. XV, No. 2, Third Month 27, 1858.

Kelley, William T. "Underground R.R. Reminiscences." Friends' Intelligencer and Journal, Volume 55, p. 264-265 (1898).

Books -

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2004.

William Henry Siebert. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom. McMillan Company: London, 1898.

Secondary Sources -

Guida, Patricia C. Arthur W. Leverton, Underground Railroad Agent, and His Family: The Levertons, Whiteleys and Wrights. Caroline County Historical Society Inc. 2007.

Guida, Patricia C. comp. Arthur W. Leverton, Marriage, Births, Deaths, Certificates of Removal. Caroline County Historical Society Inc. 2007.

Internet Sources - 

Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census, Caroline County, Maryland, p. 66.

Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census, Caroline County, Maryland, District-Not Stated, p. 182.

Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census, Washington Twp., Wayne County, Indiana, p. 1. 

University of Virginia Library, Historical Census Browser, Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, 2004, http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, "Jacob and Hannah Leverton Home."

Nabb Research Center. Wroten Jr, William H. "Joseph Nichols and the Movement of Nicholites" Salisbury Times, 11 October, 1963.

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