| James Bowers
Arrested for Aiding and Abetting Slaves to Run Away in KE County.
Biography page linked here
Sources:
The Planters' Advocate 21 July 1858
The Cecil Whig 03 July 1858
The Cecil Whig 17 July 1858
The Cecil Whig 24 July 1858
The Cecil Whig 24 July 1858
The Cecil Whig 23 October 1858
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, James L. Bowers, pg. 245, Dates: 1850, Description: KE, Accession No.: M 1498-2, MSA No.: SM 61-141.
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, Samuel E. Baker, pg. 252, Dates: 1850, Description: KE, Accession No.: M 1498-2, MSA No.: SM 61-141.
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, Isaac Perkins, pg. 245, Dates: 1850, Description: KE, Accession No.: M 1498-2, MSA No.: SM 61-141.
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, James A. Pearce and E.F. Chambers, pg. 289, Dates: 1850, Description: Slaves, KE, Accession No.: M 1505-4, MSA No.: SM 61-167.
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU (Census Record, MD) MSA SM61, Samuel E. Baker, pg. 301, Dates: 1850, Description: Slaves, KE, Accession No.: M 1505-4, MSA No.: SM 61-167.
I looked for his similar charge from 1853. There were no relative KE County Court/Circuit Court documents for 1853.
KENT COUNTY JUSTICE OF THE PEACE (Docket)
MSA C1078 Dates: 1850-1853 Description: John Talbot, i
Accession No.: 40,106-11 MSA No.: C 1078-12 Location: 1/15/1/5. Could not find his name.
Fields, Barbara Jeanne. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the 19th Century. Yale University Press: New York, 1985. pp. 63-67. |
