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    Fugitives


    Elizabeth Burkett
    Fled from slavery, Worcester County, Maryland, 1860 

    Henry Burkett
    Fled from slavery, Worcester County, Maryland, 1860 

    Hale Burton
    Fled from slavery, Worcester County, Maryland, 1860 

    Peter Derrickson
    Fled from slavery, Worcester County, Maryland, 1855 

    Isaac Fidget
    Fled from slavery, Worcester County, Maryland, 1855 

    James Henry Watson
    Fled from slavery, Worcester County, Maryland, 1856 

    Mary Ann Sipple
    Fled from slavery, Worcester County, Maryland, 1860 

    Thomas Sipple
    Fled from slavery, Worcester County, Maryland, 1860 

    John Purnell
    Fled from slavery, Worcester County, Maryland, 1860 

    Charles Heath
    Fled from slavery, Worcester County, Maryland, 1859 

    John Thompson
    Fled from slavery, Worcester County, Maryland, 1855 



    Accomplices


    Jesse Hudson
    Accomplice to slave flight, Worcester County, Maryland, 1839


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