Robert Allen (b. circa 1793 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-003357
Accomplice to Slave Flight, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1843

Biography:

Robert Allen was a free black resident of Queen Anne's County. In 1843, slaveholders accused Allen of harboring the young slave boy, George, who had fled from William Emory's plantation. Emory, held seventeen slaves in 1840 and twenty-one in 1850. Though Allen denied his involvement, Emory, James Buster, and James Wright testified against him. On May 6, 1843 Allen was sentenced to five years in the Maryland Penitentiary (see: Laws of Maryland, 1818, ch. 157). He was released in 1848.
 

1.     QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY COURT (Criminal Docket), [MSA C 1384-101]. Robert Allen, Presentments, May Term 1843, Case Number 18.
2.     QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY COURT (Minutes), MSA C 1451-22. Robert Allen, 6 May 1843, Case Number 6.

2.     MARYLAND PENITENTIARY, (Prisoners Record), [MSA S 275-2]. Robert Allen, prisoner number 3612.
 

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