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- Searchee is exactly Calvert County, MD
Sarah Jane Young searching for her father William Green, mother Dorcas, and sister Ellen
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
June 23, 1881
MR. EDITOR-- I desire some information about my people. I have not seen them since 1865. Sister Ellen belonged to Dr. Owens, in Freestone Co., Texas. I belonged to B. Owens, a son of the doctor. If Rainey, or Tom Henry see this I hope they will inquire for sister. I left my people in Calvert county, Maryland. Father, William Green, belonged to John…
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Mrs. Milla Dawsey (formerly Milla Bond) searching for her son and her brothers
The Boston Daily Globe (Boston, MA)
April 10, 1898
LAST SAW SON WHEN HE WAS SOLD.
Aged Negro of East Boston Advertising
for News of Brothers and Son, Who
Were Sold Before the War.
In one of the weekly papers devoted
to the interests of the colored people,
and published widely throughout the
country as a religious paper, recently
appeared a peculiar advertisement, which
reads…
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Henry Quay searching for his father Henry Quay, mother Susan and several siblings
Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
February 16, 1882
MR EDITOR I want to inquire
for my people whom I left in Colbert
County, Maryland. Father
was Henry Quay, Mother Susan
one brother Jessie Bodley, two
others George and [indecipherable] Quay
three sisters were Diana, Susan
and Jane. Father belonged to
James Knet, Mother to Edward
Isaac. I was sold from there in
1849 to…
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John Wilson searching for his children George, Dennis, Sarah Jane, Nat, and Lethe
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, NC)
April 1, 1867
Information Wanted.
John Wilson, a colored man, formerly a
slave belonging to James Denton, of Colbert county
Maryland, desires to find his five children, named
respectively : George, Dennis, Sarah Jane, Nat and
Lethe. They were all carried to Richmond, the
first year of the war, by James Borne, or Maryland,
and sold, to whom…
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J. M. Ross seeking information about his brothers Thomas and Major Ross
The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)
June 23, 1887
INFORMATION WANTED OF MY BROTH-
ers, Thomas and Major Ross, sons of Rich-
ard and Ann Ross. They were born slaves
in Calvert Co. Md. and ran off from their
mistress, Mrs Eliza Robbins, of Baltimore
City Md , just before the war. Any in-
formation as to their whereabouts will be
thankfully received by their brother, J. M.
Ross, Cadiz, Ohio.
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Tammer Brown searching for her sister Nancy Johnson and her brother-in-law Benjamin Howe
The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)
October 28, 1880
INFORMATION WANTED OF MY
brother-in-law, Benjamin Howe, and my
sister, Nancy Johnson. We all belonged to
Dicky Graham, in Colburt county, Md.
Ministers will please make inquiry and ad-
dress Tammer Brown, Cumberland, Md.
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Milla Dawsey searching for her brothers Washington, James, Joseph, Henry, and Lafayette Bond and her son John Wesley Dawsey (Dawsey placed 2 different ads in the same newspaper on the same day)
The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)
December 16, 1897
Information wanted of my broth-
ers Washington, James, Joseph,
Henry and Lafayette Bond, who
were the sons of Moses and Lina
Bond, and brother to Milla Bond,
who later became Milla Dawsey.
All were born in the family of Dan-
iel Kent, Calvert County, Maryland.
Information wanted of John
Wesley Dawsey, born in Low Mal-
ler, Maryland.…
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