Maria (b. circa ? - d. circa ?)
MSA SC 5496-051267
Escaped from Kent Island, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1834
Biography:
On March 17, 1834, the twenty-three-year-old slave Maria escaped from
Ed. Hamilton's house in Queen Anne's County. She was the former slave of
Samuel
R. Elliott, who had died in 1830. Hamilton and the widowed Elizabeth
Elliott offered a ten-dollar reward
for Maria's capture.1
1. "50 Dollars Reward."
Centreville
Times 20 July 1833: 3.
1.
QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY, REGISTER OF WILLS, (Wills, Original), [MSA C1496-24].
Samuel R. Elliott, October 27, 1830.
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