Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Samuel (b. 1808 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-051246
Escaped from near Centreville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1828

Biography:

In 1820, Samuel was one of fifty-seven slaves working on John Wesley Bordley 's farmland near Centreville and Wye.1 Samuel escaped on May 24, 1828, a Saturday. Bordley placed a runaway advertisement in the Centreville Times on May 28th, and concluded his advertisement with the complaint that "The Friends of freedom should aid those whose servants abscond without provocation."2
 


1.     U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, (Census Record, MD) for John W. Bordley, 1820, Queen Anne's County, Page 176, 6th line from bottom [M 2067-1, MSA SM61-75].

2.     "$100 Reward." Centreville Times 21 June 1828: 4.
 

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