Archives of Maryland
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Lime-House (b. circa 1699 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-51545
Fled from Slavery, Anne Arundel County, Maryland 1729

Biography:

Lime-House was an enslaved African American owned by Samuel Peel(e), a land owner in and around London Town. On June 10, 1729, Peel(e) posted a runaway advertisement in the Maryland Gazette for Lime-House stating that Lime-House had run away on Sunday, April 27, 1729 from his property called Turkey-Island. 

Lime-House was about thirty years old and was wearing "a new felt Hat, a new grey Fear-nothing Coat, one new and one old Cotton Jacket, a new brown Osnabrig Shirt, a pair of newish light Fustian Breeches, and a pair of old Cotten Breeches, a pair of white Country made Yarn Stockings, a pair of good Negroe Shoes."1 

Samuel Peel(e) asked that Lime-House be delivered to his overseer Nicholas Aldridge at Turkey-Island or to Peel(e) himself in London Town. Peel(e) offered to pay whomever found Lime-House twenty shillings "more than the Law allows."2 

Two more runaway advertisements appeared in the Maryland Gazette on July 153 and July 22, 1729.4 However, Lime-House does not appear listed in Samuel Peel(e)'s inventory when he died in 1732.5 Thus, it is not known exactly what happened to Lime-House. 


1. "Run away from Samuel Peel's Quarters," Maryland Gazette, June 10, 1729.

2. Ibid.

3. "Run away from Samuel Peel's Quarters," Maryland Gazette, July 15, 1729.

4. "Run away from Samuel Peel's Quarters," Maryland Gazette, July 22, 1729.

5. PREROGATIVE COURT (Inventories) Samuel Peele, 1733, Liber 18, folio 150, MSA S534-18, MdHR 1025.

PREROGATIVE COURT (Inventories) Samuel Peele, 1734, Liber 18, folio 518, MSA S534-18, MdHR 1115.



Researched and written by Sarah Hartge, 2012.

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