Stories of Flight


Queen Anne's County

  • Fugitives
  • Accomplices
  • Slaveholders
  • Slave Crimes
  • Other

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

James Massey
Fled from slavery, Queen Anne's County, Maryland 1857

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

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

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

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

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

David Canada
Slaveholder, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Richard Carmichael
Property owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

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

John Costin
Property Owner, 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

James Pippin
Property owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Henry R. Pratt
Property owner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

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

Pardoned Slaves

Negro Isaac Dobson
Slave Pardoned for Crime in Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Negro Hagar
Slave Pardoned for Crime in Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Negro Jack
Slave Pardoned for Crime in Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Negro Jem
Slave Pardoned for Crime in Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Hanged Slaves

Negro Davy
Slave in Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Negro Eve
Slave in Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Negro Judith
Slave in Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Prison Escapee

Negro Jupiter
Slave in Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Negro Adam
Freedom petitioner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1812

Rachel Baker
Freedom Petitioner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1802

James Brown
Kidnapped, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Tenche Coxe
Delegate to Annapolis Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Zenos Dawson
Kidnapper, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

William H. Emory
Union Soldier, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Henny Hemsley
Freedom Petitioner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1815

Juliana Hemsley
Freedom Petitioner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1815

Susan Hemsley
Freedom Petitioner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1815

Priscilla Hemsley
Freedom Petitioner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1815

Robert Moody
Freedom Petitioner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1812

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

Greensbury Washington Offley
Former slave, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Poplar Grove Plantation
Plantation, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

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

Alexander Walkup
Freedom Petitioner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1821

Elizabeth Walkup
Freedom Petitioner, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, 1821

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