Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Murray "Morris" Anthony (b. 1856 - d. 1880)
MSA SC 5496-8004
Fled from slavery, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1857

Sources:


Archival Sources -

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), Samuel Pattison, 1850, p 26, Dorchester, 7th Election District, M 4723-1, MSA SM 61-114. 

DORCHESTER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (Assessment Record) for Samuel Pattison, 1852-1910 C687, Election District 7, p. 161.


Newspapers and Journals -

"Fourteen Head of Negroes", 26 October, 1857.

$3,100 Reward, Baltimore Sun, 28 October 1857.

"More Runaways," Easton Star, 4 November 1857.

"Relief of Fugitive Slaves in Canada," The Liberator, 25 October, 1861.


Books -

Still, William. Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coales, Publishers, 1871.

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


Internet Sources -

Ancestry.com. 1861 Census of Canada, St. Catharine's, Lincoln County, District 4, p. 56.

Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census. Elmira, Chemung County, NY, Ward 3, p. 44.

Ancestry.com. 1880 United States Federal Census. Philadelphia, PA, District 104, p. 13.

Ancestry.com. Philadelphia, Pennyslvania, Death Certificates Index, 1803-1915, "Morris Anthony".

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