Ned (b.? - d.?)
MSA SC 5496-14123
Fled from slavery, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 1830
Biography:
Ned, a slave from Anne Arundel County, ran away for the second time on November 20, 1830. The first time Ned ran away, he was caught near Westminster, Maryland, near Pennsylvania. On his second attempt, Ned was allegedly responsible for aiding the escape of two brothers. Sam, who was around seventeen or eighteen, and Bill who was twenty-three, fled from their owner, Nicholas D. Warfield.
In a runaway advertisement Nicholas D. Warfield submitted to the local paper, he described Ned as the "spokesman and pilot for the other two [slaves]."1 Warfield, who lived near Poplar Springs in Anne Arundel County, suspected that the group was still nearby.2 He thought they would stay in or near Baltimore because Bill and Sam's father (also named Bill) worked for Mr. James Carroll in the city. He was living as a free black man, having been freed by Mr. Samuel C. Owings.3 The Frederick Town Herald featured this runaway ad for nearly three months.
1."$40 Reward," Frederick Town Herald, 27 November 1830.
2. Poplar Springs is a familiar location to many living in what is currently identified as Howard County, Maryland. It is clearly identifed on the Simon J. Martenet, Map of Howard County, 1860, Library of Congress, MSA SC1213-1-467. The more western part of Anne Arundel County, often called the Howard District, was eventually recognized as its own county - Howard County - and became the state's twenty-first county in 1851. Bill, Sam, and Ned escaped from Anne Arundel County in 1830, but it is important to note the geographic change in later years.
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