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For five years, Mr. Clayton has collected, transcribed, and cross-indexed a great variety of documents: applications for certificates of freedom, slave schedules, field assessor work books, census schedules, mortality schedules, general property tax records, city directories, newspaper advertisements and articles, the Schomburg collection at the Pratt Library in Baltimore, original letter manuscripts, and acts of the General Assembly of Maryland. The growth of Baltimore's black community, free and slave, was supported by two geographical factors of Baltimore. The city's thriving harbor offered a large employment market that attracted free blacks and offered slaveholders the opportunity to hire out their slaves. And Baltimore's position between the North and the South made it a logical station for escaped slaves either trying to reach the North or hoping to blend in with Baltimore's large free black population. 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Slaves by name - the notices of runaway slaves were routinely published in the newspapers and now provides an important resource for family historians. This article provides an index to such notices in the Baltimore Sun for the years 1837-1864. Baltimore Free Black Households with Slaves, 1820-1840 - in a city like Baltimore not all slaves were required to live on the premises of their master, and they frequently appear in the households of other Blacks who often were friends or relations. In addition, a surprising number of free Blacks were themselves slave holders. Black Families of East Baltimore, 1870 - this first census after Emancipation is the first to identify all Blacks by name, age, birthplace, etc. and is of great value to family historians and sociologists. This article provides a listing of every Black in Wards 1 to 6 of East Baltimore. Laurel Cemetery, 1852-1958 - a brief history of the cemetery and a partial reconstruction of internments there.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis is a tangible media product shipped via mail. 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An abundance of primary source documents pertaining to the Black community in the mid-nineteenth century are housed in a variety of Maryland depositories. These documents are filled with historical, genealogical, and sociological information, but few indexes to these valuable materials exist. The Mortality, Slaveholder, and Population Census Schedules indexed in this work provide a convenient basis for further research. The index entries contain surname, first name, middle initial (if given), age, and page number of the schedule.A brief examination of the Mortality, Slaveholder, and Population Census Schedules precedes the index. Although this section is only thirteen pages, it is a goldmine of names and information. Fifty-two individuals are listed as landowners and their entries include surname, first name, middle initial (if given), age, and page number of the Federal Population Census schedule, district, occupation (if given), and value of the real estate owned. One hundred and ninety-seven deaths are listed for the free Black and Mulatto population. These entries are listed alphabetically by surname, and include first name, age, whether slave or free (if indicated), district, and cause of death. Nineteen slaveholders, with forty or more slaves, are also listed. The full name of the slaveholder is given, along with the number of slaves owned, and page number and district number of census schedule.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe format used on this CD preserves the look of the original page, however, there is no electronic index and the CD is not electronically searchable.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis is a tangible media product shipped via mail. 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This is also the story of Boyne's comrades-African-American Buffalo Soldiers and the officers who commanded his various assigned units-who helped to open and preserve the West while performing their military duty for their country.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a story that needs to be told. The integration of official government records, historical events, and newspaper articles enhance this comprehensive look at the struggles endured by Sergeant Thomas Boyne, and other African-Americans who served their country during this period. Sergeant Thomas Boyne's entire military career is covered in precise detail. Careful transcriptions of original muster rolls for the period covered include: Muster Roll Records and Returns for Company \"B\", 2nd Light Artillery United States Colored Troops, Company \"K\", 40th United States Infantry and Company \"F\", 25th United States Infantry, Company \"C\", 9th United States Cavalry, Company \"L\", 9th United States Cavalry, and Company \"H\", 25th United States Infantry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpecific details from a variety of pertinent documents, orders, acts, and news articles; as well as an abundance of names, numerous vintage photographs, illustrations, a bibliography, and an every name index make this book a MUST for historians and genealogists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam A. 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Notices of runaway slaves were routinely published in the newspapers and now provide an important resource for family historians. This article provides an index to such notices in the Baltimore Sun for the years 1837-1864.Baltimore Free Black Households with Slaves, 1820-1840. In a city like Baltimore not all slaves were required to live on the premises of their master, and they frequently appear in the households of other Blacks who often were friends or relations. In addition, a surprising number of free Blacks were themselves slave holders.Black Families of East Baltimore, 1870. This first census after Emancipation is the first to identify all Blacks by name, age, birthplace, etc. and is of great value to family historians and sociologists. 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In 1808 it became illegal to import slaves from Africa, however Maryland and Virginia were experiencing a \"superabundance\" of slaves at this time and slave owners were faced with the options of renting, freeing, or selling their excess labor. Freed slaves gravitated to large cities, and by 1810, Baltimore, MD, had the largest free African American population anywhere in the US. Baltimore was also a major center for the sale of slaves between 1800-1860.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThousands of families and individuals were shipped from the city on their 'final passage' and almost certain separation in the South. The market was vast, the players plentiful, and the victims plenteous. 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For example: \"I will and bequeath to my (wife, son, daughter, etc.) all my estate both real and personal of every sort;\" or, \"...the property I have already given to my (wife, son, daughter, etc.)...\" The documents often do not include the slave's name, sometimes only girl, runaway, boy, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapters include: Will Book, 1742-1830; Will Book 19, 1814-1818; Will Book 29, 1853-1858; Will Book 30, 1858-1862; Will Book 31, 1862-1863, Guardian's Book, 1857-1866; and Will Book 32, 1857-1866. The documents in this volume include administrators' estate accounts, executor accounts, and inventories and appraisals. Each entry gives the name of the slave owner, page number, date, and type of document followed by a list of slaves. The new owner is listed if known. Surnames of the owner's children are indexed only if noted in the document. 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Beginning with the year 1870, Mrs. Pagan has scoured the newspaper for all such accounts and summarized their contents through 1927. To quote the historian Donna T. Hollie, who wrote the Foreword, \"The author has selected articles for this publication which provide an expansive overview of experiences chronicling the African diaspora. For example, the reader will learn of the evolution of 'Jim Crow' regarding housing and interstate travel. Also included are summaries covering sports, lynchings, entertainment, and political, educational, economic, and religious activities. The accomplishments of well-known activists such as Frederick Douglass, and lesser-known ones such as Henry Highland Garnet, both Maryland born, are detailed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMrs. Pagan has also included references to marriage license applications and obituaries, the latter sometimes providing details about the decedent's family and organizational connections. Among the more than 800 entries, researchers will find references to meetings of Baltimore's Brotherhood of Liberty, the precursor to the Niagara Movement and founding of the NAACP, and efforts to install Black teachers in Baltimore's segregated schools for African Americans. This work includes a comprehensive index to names and events referenced in the chronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret D. 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In 2018, the author visited these African American cemeteries and copied every tombstone and grave marker he could find. Interestingly, some of the markers copied previously were not found and others had been overlooked. Many of those interred did not have a tombstone and while some had temporary funeral home markers, others had handmade wooden crosses and even a few were handwritten on flat cement slabs. Many inscriptions included nicknames, Biblical quotes, poetic verses, photographs, images, and family relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThousands were buried without any markers of any kind being placed on their graves. To compensate for this lack of information, the author conducted additional research and found more burials in some death certificates, some obituaries, some extant funeral home records, namely J. A. Pennington in Havre de Grace and E. G. Kurtz in Jarrettsville, and a few monuments made by the J. C. Taylor Marble Co. His efforts resulted in 6,854 burials being identified and collected for this book, which by no means contains all of the burials in the African American cemeteries in Harford County, Maryland, but it goes a long way in helping to identify many of the people who are buried here.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis work has been compiled as a research tool to be used in assisting family history researchers in locating the graves and learning more about their departed ancestors. It is more than a listing of names and dates since most contain family relationships and biographical information, including civic and military service in many cases. It is arranged alphabetically, which precludes the need for a separate index, and at the end of each entry the name of the cemetery is indicated in brackets. Names that appear on the same tombstone or obelisk are noted within the text. Descriptions of the cemeteries are included in the Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry C. 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As such, the book is a distillation of the Revolutionary War and other military service found in Mr. Heinegg's two larger works, \u003cem\u003eFree African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820\u003c\/em\u003e and the companion volume, \u003cem\u003eFree African Americans of Maryland and Delaware to About 1810\u003c\/em\u003e, where the full family histories of the combatants may be found.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOver 420 African Americans who were born free during the colonial period served in the American Revolution from Virginia. Another 400 who descended from free-born colonial families served from North Carolina, 40 from South Carolina, 60 from Maryland, and 17 from Delaware. At least 24 from Virginia and 41 from North Carolina died in the service. Over 75 free African Americans were in colonial militias and the French and Indian Wars in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Although some slaves fought to gain their freedom as substitutes for their masters, they were relatively few in number. By the same token, those who were not serving under their own free will are not included in this list. 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This book alphabetically lists some 704 slave owners and identifies about 3,180 slaves. It has been annotated with information from subsequent slave manumissions and sales records, and early Harford County newspaper runaway notices. Research compiled by James E. Chrismer, Carolyn Greenfield Adams and the late Hunter C. Sutherland was also consulted.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter each slave owner's name in this book is the district in which they lived and in many cases the names of their land tracts where the African Americans were enslaved and worked. This is followed by the slaves listed by sex and age, or age group. Sometimes the slaves' names were enumerated by the tax assessor, along with remarks recorded about some of the slaves' medical conditions. Most slaves at this time did not have last names, but a few did. Information gathered from manumissions and sales records oftentimes gave their first and last names, although it was very minimal. 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First and foremost, Mr. Heinegg has assembled genealogical evidence on more than 400 Maryland and Delaware black families (naming nearly 10,000 individuals), with copious documentation from the federal censuses of 1790-1810 and colonial sources consulted at the Maryland Hall of Records, county archives, and other repositories. In fact, the author has examined all extant court records for Maryland and Delaware for the period under investigation. No work that we know of brings together so much information on colonial African Americans, except Mr. Heinegg's three-volume series volume on Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. This second edition of \u003ci\u003eFree African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to About 1810\u003c\/i\u003e is nearly 60% larger than the original.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author offers documentation proving that most of these free black families descended from mixed-race children who were themselves the progeny of white women and African American slaves or free blacks. In all, Heinegg proves that these families descended from 264 white women who had had 374 mixed-race children. He has also identified another 112 white women who bore 127 mixed-race children for whom no direct evidence of offspring could be found. While some of these families would claim Native American ancestry, Mr. Heinegg offers evidence to show that they were instead the direct descendants of mixed-race children.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColonial Maryland laws relating to marriages between offspring of African American and white partners carried severe penalties. 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Many of them came through Maryland via Harford County to cross over the Susquehanna River into Cecil County or follow the river north to Pennsylvania and beyond. Harford County was a busy corridor for freedom seekers with stations at the Hays House near Bel Air (now the Hays-Heighe House at Harford Community College), Swallowfield in Berkley (near Darlington) where slaves hid in the ice house, William Worthington's house at Shure's (or Worthington's) Landing near Darlington (house now gone), “Had” Harris House (once located on the Susquehanna River, but now under Conowingo Lake created by the 1928 Conowingo Dam), and Belle Vue Farm near Havre de Grace (on Chesapeake Bay, south of Susquehanna River). 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