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    Fugitives


    Greenbury Brown
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1834 

    Charlotte
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1857 

    Edmund
    Escaped from Queen Anne's or Kent County, Maryland, 1833

    Ann M. Green
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1857 

    Nathan Green
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1857 

    Henry Gross
    Escaped from Bennet's Point, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1832  

    Emeline Hawkins
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1845 

    Sam Hawkins
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1845 

    Joseph Henry
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1860 

    Isaac
    Escaped from Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1829  

    Jacob
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1833 

    Pere Johns
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1834

    Maria
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1834

    Nathan Mead
    Escaped from Queen Anne's County, Maryland  

    James Moody
    Escaped from Slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

    Peter
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1833

    William Wesley Potts
    Escaped from Baltimore City, Maryland, 1850

    John Reasons
    Escaped from Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1831  

    Nancy Reasons
    Escaped from Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1831  

    Paul Reason
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1833

    Sam
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1833;

    Samuel
    Escaped from near Centreville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1828  

    Benjamin Thomas
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, 1848

    Perry Trusty
    Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, 1848

    Harriett Turner
    Fled from Slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1849

    William
    Escaped from Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1831  


    Accomplices


    Robert Allen
    Accomplice to Slave Flight, Queen Anne's County, 1845 

    John Brown
    Accomplice to slave flight, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1856

    Thomas Garrett
    Accomplice to Slave Flight, Queen Anne's County, 1845 


    London Gould
    Accomplice to Slave Flight, Queen Anne's County

    Phoebe Myers
    Accomplice to Slave Flight, Queen Anne's County, 1855

    Elijah S. Reynolds
    Accomplice to slave flight, District 3, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1850

    Sherry Wilson
    Convicted of circulating inflamatory publications, District 2, Queen Anne's County, 1839

    James E. Work
    Accomplice to Slave Flight, Queen Anne's County, 1848


    Other


    John Wesley Bordley
    Property Owner near Centreville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland  

    Charles J. Bryan
    Property Owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

    James Brown
    Kidnapped, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

    Valentine Bryan
    Property Owner, District 5, Queen Anne's County

    David Canada
    Property Owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

    Samuel A. Chew
    Property Owner on Kent Island, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

    Zenos Dawson
    Kidnapper, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

    Samuel R. Elliott
    Property Owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland  

    Thomas Emory
    Property Owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

    Kimmell Godwin
    Property Owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland  

    Kensey Harrison
    Property owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland  

    Thomas Hewitt
    Property owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland  

    James D. Mitchell
    Property Owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland  

    Thomas Moffit
    Kidnapper, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1850

    James Pippin
    Property owner, Queen Anne's County

    James W. Price
    Kidnapper, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1850

    Samuel S. Tarbutton
    Property owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland  

    John Tilghman
    Property Owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

    John Lloyd Tilghman
    Property Owner, Bennet's Point, Queen Anne's County, Maryland  

    Sherry Wilson
    Convicted of circulating inflamatory publications, Queen Anne's County, 1839. 

    USCT Soldiers


    John C. Kineyea
    USCT Soldier, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

    Charles Weeks
    USCT Soldier, Queen Anne's County, Maryland


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