Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Amelia Edmonson (b. circa 1789 - d. 1874)
MSA SC 5496-15205
Enslaved, Mongtomery County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources -

BALTIMORE COUNTY JAIL (Runaway Docket), 1831 - 1832; MSA C2063

BALTIMORE CITY & COUNTY JAIL (Runaway Docket), 1832 - 1836, 2/72/4/19, Docket #427, MSA C2064

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories), Henry Culver, C1228, 1827-1829, 1/25/9/14, p. 114

U.S. CENSUS RECORD (Census Record, MD) Amelia Edmonson, 1850, Montgomery County, 5th Election District, Page 44, Line 13 [MSA SM 61-142, M1499-1]

Newspapers and Journals -

Hampden. "Prisoners in the Pearl." Friends Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal. (1849) Vol 2., 60-62.

Paynter, John H. "The Fugititves of the Pearl." The Journal of Negro History (1916), 243-264.

Books -

Clayton, Ralph. Cash For Blood:  The Baltimore to New Orleans Domestic Slave Trade. Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, Inc., 2002.

Pacheco, Josephine. The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac. North Carolina: UNC Press, 2005.

Ricks, Mary Kay. Escape on the Pearl. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007.

Internet Sources -

"Westover", Colesville, Mongtomery County, M 33-2. http://mdihp.net/

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