Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Rev. James M. McCarter (b. 1822 - d. 1900)
MSA SC 5496-51531
M.E. Preacher/Abolitionist/Soldier

Sources:


Archival Sources - 

 CAROLINE COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories) 1834-1843, pp. 158-162.

Caroline County Circuit Court (Land Records) LHG 47, 1883-1884, pp. 184 - 185.


Newspapers -


Books and Journals -

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. 

De Vinne, Daniel. The Methodist Episcopal Church and Slavery: A Historical Survey of the Relation of the Early Methodists to Slavery. F. Hart: New York, NY, 1857.

Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland and the District of Columbia. National Biographical Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD (1879), pp. 504-505. 

Portrait and Biographical Record of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Chapman Publishing Co.: New York, NY (1898), pp. 353-357.

Bonner, Hannah Adair. "Abolitionist on Trial: Rev. John D. Long and the 1858 Philadelphia Conference." Journal of the Historical Society of the EPA Conference (2008).

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


Secondary Research - 

Reverend Joseph DiPaolo, Public Talk on June 2, 2012, at Harriet Tubman UGRR Conference. "The Pugnacious Parson: James M. McCarter - Minister, Author, Soldier". 

Blondo, Richard A.  Samuel Green: A Black Life in Antebellum Maryland. Unpublished M.A. Thesis. University of Maryland, 1988.  MSA SC 2248


Internet Sources - 

Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census. Caroline County, Maryland, District 5, p. 25. 

Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census. Caroline County, MD, Preston, District 6, p. 24.


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