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Committed to Jail (August 16th, 1860)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: Three African American men, presumably slaves, are being held in the Carroll County jail; their owner is urged to claim them and pay the charges to be able take them away
Full DetailsOn Saturday night last… (August 17th, 1860)
>From The Valley Register; Middletown, MD
Summary: An African American slave man belonging to Mrs. Wm. Hoof of Jefferson Co., VA, was caught robbing the spring house of Mr. Samuel Wright, Jr. and shot and killed instantly.
Full DetailsOne night last week… (August 24th, 1860)
>From The American Sentinel; Westminster, MD
Summary: Dennis Wood, colored, arrested in Baltimore as "an absconding slave" of Wm. R. Steele of Carroll Co.
Full DetailsFire (August 28th, 1860)
>From The Frederick Herald; Frederick, MD
Summary: Negro boy belonging to Andrew Boyd jailed on suspicion of setting fire to Boyd's stable (refer to ID#: 722)
Full DetailsIn our notice… (September 4th, 1860)
>From The Frederick Herald; Frederick, MD
Summary: Correction of #718: it was Henderson's, not Boyd's, stable that burned and Boyd's slave was not the incendiary
Full DetailsRunaway Negro (September 5th, 1860)
>From The Herald of Freedom & Torch Light; Hagerstown, MD
Summary: Notice: Sheriff Edward M. Mobley announces that a runaway slave named Harrison Lee was recently committed to the Washington County jail. The slave said his owner is John Addison Gordon of Spotsylvania County, VA.
Full DetailsSheriff's Sale (September 13th, 1860)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: Henry Harden, a free African American convicted of larceny, is to be sold at public sale to serve as a slave, out of the state, for 2 years, one month and 18 days from date of conviction
Full DetailsPublic Sale of Valuable Real & Personal Property (September 13th, 1860)
>From The Carroll County Democrat; Westminster, MD
Summary: Sale of property from the estate of Jacob Maus (5 miles northeast of Taneytown) includes "one negro man, 21 years of age, a good farm hand to be sold out of the state and to serve until 1874. One negro woman, 19 years old, good house servant, not to be sold out of state and to serve until 1874"
Full DetailsKilled by the Horse Power of a Threshing Machine (September 18th, 1860)
>From The Frederick Herald; Frederick, MD
Summary: Negro boy owned by Spencer Jones caught in threshing machine while working on Groff Cockey's farm near Frederick, died of his injuries
Full DetailsFatal Accident (September 19th, 1860)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: 10 year old William, slave of Spencer C. Jones of Frederick, was fatally injured in an accident at S. Graff Cockey's barn in Woodsboro.
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