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Contents 1 Talbot County 2 Cemeteries 3 Slavery in Talbot County 3.1 Slave Owners 3.2 Plantations 4 One Place Studies 5 Notables 6 Stats for 2023 7 Sources

Talbot County

Talbot County is located in the heart of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Founded around 1661, it's named for Lady Grace Talbot, sister of Lord Baltimore and the first proprietary governor of Maryland. European settlers were drawn to Talbot County's wealth of natural resources and profusion of waterways for ease in travel.

Many of Talbot's early settlers were Quakers. Their Third Haven Meeting House, completed in 1684, is still active as a house of worship. Others were Puritans driven from Cavalier Virginia in the Cromwell era or Irish and Scottish rebels transported to the colony as indentured servants. Talbot County had one of the highest percentages of free blacks in the country. The county's African-Americans, both slave and free produced in Frederick Douglass the nation's greatest 19th Century advocate of black freedom and justice.

Cemeteries

• Richards Memorial Park, Easton, Maryland category FG: Richards Memorial Park 713 profiles needed Spreadsheet for Richards Memorial Park Cemetery (The spreadsheet is also pinned on the Maryland Channel on Discord).
• Copperville Cemetery, Talbot County, Maryland category FG: Cooperville Cemetery 7 memorials
• DeShields Cemetery, Talbot County, Maryland category FG: DeShields Cemetery 22 memorials
• Saint Stephens AME Church Cemetery, Easton, Maryland category FG: St. Stephens AME 190 memorials

Slavery in Talbot County

• Create profiles of any enslaved (or formerly enslaved) persons who labored in Talbot County.
  • The following enslaved persons served in the 2nd and 7th US Colored Troops from Talbot County: Thank you, Sarah Turner!

1. John Doane (abt.1827-) or Dorum
2. Charles S. Sampson (abt.1843-1864)
3. James Sampson (abt.1839-1886)
4. Edward Dorham (abt.1842-) or Dorum
5. Thomas Sampson (abt.1840-)
6. Barnett J. Sampson (abt.1838-1903)
7. John Poney (abt.1834-1866)
8. Mitchell Maxfield (abt.1843-1933) or Maxwell
9. John Johnson (abt.1828-abt.1866)

• • Legacy of Slavery in Maryland, Talbot county Case Studies bios of formerly enslaved, and owners.

Slave Owners

• Nicholas Goldsborough
• Elizabeth Tayloe (Lloyd) Winder (1800-1880)
• Daniel Lloyd (1812-1875)

Plantations

• Find named plantations located in Talbot County and create the slave holder profile for that plantation.
• Otwell Plantation, Talbot County, owned by Nicholas Goldsborough

One Place Studies

Notables

1. Frederick Augustus Washington (Bailey) Douglass (abt.1818-1895)
2. Mathias de Sousa was the first Black elected representative in North America (Wikipedia)
3. Samuel Green (abt.1802-1877), Conductor for the Underground Railroad, a minister, and co-founder of the Centenary Biblical Institute, now Morgan State University.

• Nathaniel "Nace" Hopkins - https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5400/sc5496/051800/051877/html/51877sources.html
• Rebecca Primus - https://www.google.com/search?q=Wikitree+Rebecca+Primus+%281836-1932%29&client=safari&sca_esv=593789920&rls=en&ei=gv-KZbniF-vfkPIPmJ692A4&ved=0ahUKEwi5q42Kw62DAxXrL0QIHRhPD-sQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=Wikitree+Rebecca+Primus+%281836-1932%29&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiI1dpa2l0cmVlIFJlYmVjY2EgUHJpbXVzICgxODM2LTE5MzIpMggQABiABBiiBDIIEAAYiQUYogQyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBEivMFCYDFjzLXABeACQAQCYAagBoAHgBaoBAzAuNbgBA8gBAPgBAcICBRAhGKsC4gMEGAEgQYgGAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
• Thelma Anna Cooper Alford - https://talbothistory.org/collections-research/black-history/thelma-alford/
• Grace Brooks - https://talbothistory.org/collections-research/black-history/grace-brooks/

Stats for 2023

Sources

• Talbot County History