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Aaron Cornish (b. circa 1822 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-8022
Fled from slavery, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1857

Sources:


Archival Sources -

DORCHESTER COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Inventories), William D. Travers, 1857, p 11, MSA CM434-8, CR9029-1a.


Books -

Still, William. Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coales, Publishers, 1872.

Larson, Kate. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. Ballantine Books: New York, NY, 2004 (p. 145)


Newspapers -

"$300 Reward." Cambridge Democrat. 4 November 1857.


Internet Sources -

Ancestry.com. United States Federal Census, Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, 1870.


 

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