Archives of Maryland
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John Harper (b. circa 1832 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-51360
Maryland State Colonization Society Emigrant to Liberia from Queen Anne's County, 1835

Biography:

John Harper and his mother Harriet were freed by E.C. Harper of Queen's County.1 Harriet and John emigrated to Liberia, sailing from Baltimore on the brig Fortune on December 24, 1835. They arrived at the Maryland State Colonziation Society's settlement at Cape Palmas, Liberia on February 4, 1836. Later that year, they moved to Monrovia, Liberia, the American Colonization Society's colony, so that Harriet could care for her elderly father.2


1. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society), Manumission Lists, 1832-1839, MSA SC 5977, Film Number M 13248-1, Emigrants, Lines 306-307.

2. Hall, Richard L. On Afric’s Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia, 1834-1857. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2003), 453.
 

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