Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives"

Fugitive Slaves > A - B > Biged, John Henry

   
   
   
slave name: Biged, John Henry
owner name: Moore, John
occupation: merchant (bacon and lard)
state: District of Columbia
town: Washington DC
census: 1860 slave schedule owns male slave 5, female 4.  1862 claims compensation for them.  
comments: owner No 347 F.St. bet 9th and 10th Sts.  Left wife, free woman, possibly Elizabeth Becket, free black, 22, born Va, in 1850 Cens.
   

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