Thomas Moffit (b. 1795 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-51272
Kidnapper, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1850

Sources:

Archival Sources -

GENERAL ASSEMBLY (Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1717-April, 1720) 1717, Ch. 13, § 2 [MSA SC 2908-33].

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Criminal Docket), Thomas Moffit, May Term 1852, Docket No. 46, 51. [MSA C1385-2].

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD), Thomas Moffit, 1850, Reel No. 0119, Queen Anne's, 2nd Election District [MSA SM61-144, M 1500-1].

Newspapers and Journals -

"Arrest of Supposed Kidnappers." Baltimore Sun, 16 December 1850, p. 2.

"Kidnapping." Kent News, 1 February 1851, p.2. [MSA SC 2901, M 2352-01].

"THE KIDNAPPING CASE." Kent News, 8 February 1851, p.2. [MSA SC 2901, M 2352-01].

"The Centreville Kidnapping Case." Baltimore Sun, 27 December 1850, p. 2.

Books -

Clayton, Ralph. Cash for Blood: The Baltimore to New Orleans Domestic Slave Trade. Bowie, MD: Heritage, 2002.

Clayton, Ralph. Slavery, Slaveholding, and the Free Black Population of Antebellum Baltimore. Bowie, MD: Heritage, 1993.

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