Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives"

Fugitive Slaves > A - B > Bailey, William

     
     
     
slave name: Bailey (Smith), William  
owner name: Henry, John C.  
occupation: farmer  
state: Maryland  
town: Jamaica Point  
county: Talbot County  
census: owner “a large slave-holder.”  1850 Slave schedule John C. Henry, Dorchester Co (next to Talbot) with 18 slaves, 2-74.  1850 census John C. Henry, farmer, 62, $60,000 property in Dorchester Co with wife, various children and employees.  
comments: 32; worked a steam engine, left wife, 25, and four children 10 mo to 7  
     

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