Ned (b.? - d.?)
MSA SC 5496-14123
Fled from slavery, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 1830

Biography:

Ned, a slave from Anne Arundel County, ran away for the second time on November 20, 1830.  The first time Ned ran away, he was caught near Westminster, Maryland, on the Pennsylvania line.  On his second attempt, Ned was allegedly responsible for aiding and abetting the escape of two brothers.  Sam, who was between  seventeen and eighteen years old, and Bill, age twenty-three, fled their owner, Nicholas D. Warfield.  In the runaway advertisement Warfield wrote that Ned "acts as a spokesman and pilot for the other two."¹  Warfield, who lived near the Polar Springs in Anne Arundel County, suspected that the group was still nearby.  He wrote, "It is probable they may remain some time in the neighborhood or about Baltimore."²  Bill and Sam's father, also named Bill, was a free Black man who lived in Baltimore.  Bill worked for Mr. James Carroll after he had been freed by Mr. Samuel C. Owings. The Frederick Town Herald featured this runaway ad for nearly three months.

1. Frederick Town Herald, 27 November 1830.
2.  Ibid.

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