Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives"

Fugitive Slaves > M - P > Pitts, Catherine

   
   
   
   
slave name: Pitts, Catherine (Ann Derickson)
owner name: Pitts, John (Jonathan)
occupation: preacher, doctor
state: Maryland
town: Berlin
county: Worcester County
census: 1850 Jonathan Pitts, 57, dr, w wife, 5 ch,
5000 real, 3 slaves; 1860 John R. Pitts, dr,
with wife, 4 ch and George Pitts, bl, 100, 6000 real, 6000 pers, 6 slaves 
place sent: New Bedford, Mass.  
comments: with child; husband escaped earlier and is in New Bedford

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