Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives"

Fugitive Slaves > A - B > Brown, William

   
   
   
slave name: Brown, William
owner name: Elliott, William
occupation: farmer
state: Maryland
town: Queen Anne
county: Queen Anne's County
census: 1850, farmer, 39, no real listed, w wife, 4 ch, 2 labs, 2 slaves; 1860 farmer, 1500 real, 2000 pers, large fam, 2 bl lab.
place sent: Syracuse, N.Y.
comments: age 25; ex owner Wm Wells, promised to free slaves, died; 1840 census 6 slaves; left fafter, 4 sisters, 2 brothers, grandmother

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