Gassaway (b. circa 1819 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-1126
Fled from slavery, Frederick County, Maryland, 1853
Biography:
In 1850, Michael B. Carroll of the Nottingham District, Prince George’s County, Maryland, held ninety human beings in chattel bondage. Carroll died in three years later, and the Orphan’s Court ordered his slaves sold-off. At a public auction, February 14, 1853, twenty-two successful bidders representing interests across the state, and likely throughout the South divided the sixty Carroll slaves (breaking-up several families). One man purchased as a slave, Gassaway, fell into the hands of a man named Bradley, who in turn re-sold him to Meredith Davis of Frederick County. Though he went with Davis to his Gunpowder Mills farm, Gassaway fled within a year, believed to have headed back to Prince George’s County.
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