Stories of Flight


Somerset County

  • Fugitives
  • Accomplices
  • Slaveholders
  • Other

Morris Carey
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1832

Charles
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1844

Samuel Conway
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1846

Daniel
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1852

Dennis
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland

George
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland

James Henry
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1856

Hezekiah
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1844

William Hitch
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1836

Isaac
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1854

Jack
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland 1832

George Johnson
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1831

Joshua
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1854

Saul
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1840

Spencer Waters
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland

John Weatherby
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1842

William Williams
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1836

Levin Wilson
Fled from slavery, Somerset County, Maryland, 1841

None at this time

William Colburn
Property Owner/Slave Holder, Somerset County, Maryland

Alexander Donoho
Property Owner/Slave Holder, Somerset County, Maryland

William T. Fleming
Property Owner/Slave Holder, Somerset County, Maryland

Levi Howarth
Property Owner/Slave Holder, Somerset County, Maryland

Marcellus Jones
Property Owner/Slave Holder, Somerset County, Maryland

William H. Long
Property Owner/Slave Holder, Somerset County, Maryland

John McIntire
Property Owner/Slave Holder, Somerset County, Maryland

Thomas Robenson
Property Owner/Slave Holder, Somerset County, Maryland

Ann Walter
Property Owner/Slave Holder, Somerset County, Maryland

Joseph Wetherly
Property Owner/Slave Holder, Somerset County, Maryland

Wesley Armstrong
Accused fugitive slave, Somerset County, Maryland, 1837