State Archives Update 3/1

Hello All,

Hope everyone's snow day is going well, just here to give our weekly update. We now have several new resources available and a rather intriguing discovery. As far as new finds, I have pulled George Calvert's will and inventory (with slaves), as well as CBC's inventory (no slaves, hmmm). Ross has finished copying the Martinet people out of both the 1850 and 1860 books, and Chris has continued work with newspapers and runaway slave adds. Those that he found will follow this post. The most interesting one is that of Clement Smith, which shows as Chris pointed out to me direct evidence of slaves used on the land that would become the campus of the MAC. Cheers, Happy Hunting.

Donny

John Bowie
• Basil Thomas ran away in September 1836, presumably headed for Washington.

Howarton Cross
• Howarton Cross owned the wife of runaway slave Sandy (owned by Fielder Cross) in 1838.

Isaac Scaggs
• Adam Smith ran away in August and presumably returned within weeks to help his wife and 4 children run away in 1857.

Clement Smith
• Runaway ad placed by Clement Smith for his slave named Levi who worked as a waiter at Ross’s Tavern for several years until approximately 1809, perhaps as a hired slave.

John Higgins
• Ulrich ran away in 1854
• Uriah ran away in August 1846
• Uriah ran away in April 1846