Joseph Cornish (b. 1813 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-8026
Fled from slavery, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1855

Sources:

Archival Sources -

DORCHESTER COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Chattel Records), 1852-1860.

Books -

Still, William. Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coales, Publishers, 1872.

Larson, Kate. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. Ballantine Books: New York, NY, 2004 (pp. 103, 125)

Internet Sources -

Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census, Dorchester County, Maryland, District 1, p. 59.

Ancestry.com. 1861 Census of Canada, Canada West, Lincoln, p. 214.

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, "Gilpin Point."

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