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Summary: Free Negro John Bud to be sold for one year at sheriff's sale in Westminster "for being without visible means of support and not of good and industrious habits."

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Summary: African American preacher James Brown died recently as one of the “oldest colored Clergymen in the United States.” He was once a slave of the late Benjamin Galloway.

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Summary: Advertisement: “Three Valuable Negro Men,” offered for hire as farm hands by J.B. McLeery at Robertson’s Book Store in Hagerstown.

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Summary: A meeting to be held in Urbana District to appoint delegates to the Slaveholder’s Convention in Baltimore next month.

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Summary: Maryland slaveholders are meeting in convention today in Baltimore to consider plans to better regulate the free black population, although some suspect the meeting has been gotten up by the Democrats for political reasons. Washington County’s delegates include Dr. Charles MacGill, Andrew Rentch, A.K. Syester, Isaac Nesbitt, Fred. Dellinger and Jacob Fiery, among others.

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Summary: At the recent Slaveholders’ Convention held in Baltimore, a resolution was adopted that called for the legislature to reaffirm and amend 1831 laws that regulate the black population, and that it should consider prohibiting emancipation or requiring that freed slaves be removed from the state. Among the delegates in attendance were Bradley T. Johnson and Edward Shriver of Frederick County, and J.T. Mason of Washington County.

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Summary: Agnes Robinson, an African American woman, and her child Mary were arrested in Washington, D.C., for having escaped from slavery in Washington County twelve years earlier. The woman and her child have been sent to Hagerstown so that her right to freedom can be determined in the local court.

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Summary: Advertisement: A “Negro Girl” who is a good cook and knows how to do housework is wanted as “a servant for life.”

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Summary: Recent district meetings of the American Party were held in District No. 1 (Sharpsburg), District No. 4 (Clear Spring), District No. 6 (Boonsboro), District No. 7 (Smithsburg), District No. 9 (Leitersburg), District No. 10 (Funkstown) and District No. 13 (Cearfoss Cross Roads). The meetings selected delegates to the upcoming party County Convention and Congressional Convention, the names of whom are provided.

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Summary: Recent district meetings of the American Party were held in District No. 2 (Williamsport), District No. 3 (Hagerstown), District No. 8, District No. 11 (Sandy Hook), and District No. 12 (Fairplay), The meetings selected delegates to the upcoming party County Convention and Congressional Convention, the names of whom are provided.

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