Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives"

Fugitive Slaves > J - L > Johns, Daniel

   
   
   
slave name: Johns, Daniel (David Cornish)
slave name (variant): Cornish, Joseph
owner name: Le Count [Lecomte], Capt, Samuel
occupation: US Navy
state: Maryland
town: Cambridge
county: Dorchester County
census: 1850 Samuel W. Lecomte, 56, naval officer, w wife, son, 3 others, 3500 real
place sent: Syracuse, N.Y.
comments: age 40; blacksmith, AME minister; left wife and 5 ch (Still).  1850 Ann Cornish, 45, bl, with 4 ch, no prop or occ listed.  1861 Canada census shows him with wife Ann; 49, black, occ rev, he and wife attended school during year, St. Catharines, Ontario, liv near other bl families

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