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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks)
ITEMS: Petition for freedom by Kate on behalf of Harry, George, Hesse, and Jim; petition 18 January 1809
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA C1187-7
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MSA SC 4239-26-2
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks) Milly Ogleton vs. Osborne Boone
ITEMS: petition for freedom 10 September 1810; summons 10 September 1810
COMMENTS: "...your petitioner is detained in slavery by Osburn Boone; and as she is entitled to her freedom having had ...descended from a free Woman"
SOURCE: MSA C1187-8
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MSA SC 4239-26-3
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks) Letty Ogleton et al. vs. Philip Soper
ITEMS: petition for freedom 10 September 1810; summons 10 September 1810
COMMENTS: Petition for freedom for Letty and her children Henry, Michael, Lucy, Luckey, and Charles
SOURCE: MSA C1187-9
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MSA SC 4239-26-4
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks) Amey and Daniel Ogleton vs. Colemore Pope
ITEMS: petition for freedom 10 September 1810; summons 10 September 1810
COMMENTS: Petitioners said they were detained in slavery by Pope though they were descended from a free woman
SOURCE: MSA C1187-10
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks) Eliza Ogleton et al. vs. Samuel Marshall
ITEMS: petition for freedom 10 September 1810; summons 10 September 1810
COMMENTS: Eliza and her three children Solomon, Maria, and Daniel said they were illegally held in bondage
SOURCE: MSA C1187-11
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks) Charles Ogleton et al. vs. Francis [Osborn]
ITEMS: petition for freedom 10 September 1810; summons 10 September 1810
COMMENTS: Blacks claimed they were being illegally detained in slavery
SOURCE: MSA C1187-12
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MSA SC 4239-26-7
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks) Harry Ogleton et al. vs. Nelly Jenkins
ITEMS: petition for freedom 10 September 1810; summons 10 September 1810
COMMENTS: Blacks being detained in slavery and entitled to their freedom
SOURCE: MSA C1187-13
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MSA SC 4239-26-8
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks) Pompey Ogleton vs. Fielder Pope
ITEMS: petition for freedom 10 September 1810; summons 10 September 1810
COMMENTS: Slave claims illegal detention in slavery
SOURCE: MSA C1187-14
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MSA SC 4239-26-9
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks) Milly Ogleton vs. Osborne Boone
ITEMS: depositions 5 September 1811
COMMENTS: "...your petitioner is detained in slavery by Osburn Boone; and as she is entitled to her freedom having had ...descended from a free Woman"
SOURCE: MSA C1187-16
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MSA SC 4239-26-10
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks)
ITEMS: Petition of Ann Mudd and George Sylvester Boone to the Governor of Maryland; petition April 1828
COMMENTS: petition for sale of blacks confined in county jail
SOURCE: MSA C1187-26
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MSA SC 4239-26-11
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks) Arthur Pue West vs. Charles H. L. West
ITEMS: record 1 October 1828; deposition of John Bird 3 November 1828; article of agreement 17 April 1829
COMMENTS: Court record, including copy of original petition, involving the contested will of slave master Stephen West who according to one version emancipated a number of slaves and others, including his two servants Polly and Charlotte "whom I heretofore liberated;" 62 1/2 acres of land; agreement sought "deeds of manumission"
SOURCE: MSA C1187-27, 28, and 30
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MSA SC 4239-26-12
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks)
ITEMS: Petition of Thomas Burke petition 15 April 1833; letter of commendation 15 April 1833
COMMENTS: Free black man asks for the privilege of owning a gun
SOURCE: MSA C1187-39
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MSA SC 4239-26-13
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks) State vs. Milly Bowser
ITEMS: petition of Milly Bowser 27 April 1835; commitment 27 April 1835; warrant 27 April 1835; bench warrant 27 April 1835
COMMENTS: Free black arrested and jailed for entering the state illegally from the District of Columbia; she petitions the chief judge of the First Judicial District and is released from confinement
SOURCE: MSA C1187-43
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MSA SC 4239-26-14
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks) Hannah Jackson et al. vs. Arthur P. West
ITEMS: petition 26 November 1835; bill docket 26 November 1835; summons 26 November 1835
COMMENTS: Group of five free blacks held by Arthur P. West in the Upper Marlboro jail as slaves; they asserted they were "persons of color free & entitled to freedom under the laws of the State of Maryland"
SOURCE: MSA C1187-44
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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY COURT (Court Papers, Blacks) Negroes Catherine, Airy, Frederick, Eliza, Benjamin, Caroline, George, and Alfred vs. Jeremiah Townshend
ITEMS: petition 9 October 1847
COMMENTS: Blacks claimed that they were unjustly "detained in slavery by one Jeremiah Townshend of said County"
SOURCE: MSA C1187-55
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