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    Fugitives


    John Chase
    Fled from servitude, Caroline County, 1852

    George Comegys
    Fled from slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1850

    Alford Fisher
    Fled from slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1852

    Jim
    Fled from slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1851

    Hannah Peters
    Fled from slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1857

    Robert Rich
    Fled from servitude, Caroline County, 1856

    Charles Ross
    Fled from slavery, Caroline County, 1859

    Harriet Ross
    Fled from slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1857

    Peter Still
    Fled from slavery, Eastern Shore, Maryland, between 1801 and 1807  

    Sidney Still
    Fled from slavery twice, Eastern Shore, Maryland, between 1801 and 1807 

    John Stokes
    Fled from Slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1849

    Henry Townsend
    Fled from slavery, Caroline County, Maryland, 1857 

    Thomas Teat
    Fled from slavery, Caroline County, 1851


    Accomplices


    George Doherty
    Accused accomplice to slave flight, Caroline County, 1853

    Anna Murray Douglass
    Free Born Black, Caroline County, Maryland

    Isaac Gibson
    Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland, 1851

    Daniel Hubbard
    Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland, 1858

    Jonah Kelley
    Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland

    Arthur W. Leverton
    Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland, 1858

    Benjamin Ross
    Accomplice to Slave Flight, Caroline County, Maryland, 1857


    Other


    John Allen
    Property Owner, Caroline County

    Patty Cannon
    Enslaved Kidnapper, Caroline County, Maryland  

    Cyrus James
    Kidnapper, Caroline County, Maryland  

    David Knotts
    Property Owner, Caroline County, Maryland

    John L. McCombs
    Property Owner, Caroline County, Maryland

    John McGuire
    Property Owner, Caroline County, Maryland

    Lucy Richardson
    Property Owner, Caroline County, Maryland

    Josephine Webb
    Poisoned her owner, Caroline County, Maryland, 1855

    Rixom Webb
    Black Property Owner, Caroline County, Maryland


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