Jess (b. circa 1817 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-050588
Fled from Slavery, Cracklin District, Montgomery County, Maryland,
1845
Biography:
On August 15, 1845, the farmer Elisha
Riggs advertised in the Baltimore Sun for two runaway slaves
named Jess and Josemin.1
The two men had fled their enslavement on Riggs'
farm near the Triadelphia factory, between Unity and Brighton.2
They escaped on the night of Saturday August 9th. The runaway
advertisement
ran for four weeks and described Jess as "aged 28 years,
very good looking, and very black, 5 feet 8 inches high." Riggs offered
$100 for each slave, plus an extra $100 each if captured outside
Maryland. However, Josemin and Jess were still fugitives
from the state in 1850.3
1. "Ran Away." Baltimore Sun 15 August 1849: 2. Baltimore Sun Historical Archive. Enoch Pratt Free Library.
2. Montgomery County District 1, Simon J. Martenet, Martenet and Bond's Map of Montgomery County, 1865, Library of Congress, MSA SC 1213-1-464.
3. U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD)
for Elisha Riggs, Slaves, 1850, Montgomery County, Cracklin District, Page
10, Line 3 [MSA SM61-168, M 1505-5].
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