US Black Heritage Project Maryland Team

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African-American Resources for Maryland

US Black Heritage Project Teams

The Maryland Team covers activity for the US Black Heritage Project in the state of Maryland.

Team Leader: Gina (Pocock) Jarvi

Team Members: Emma MacBeath, Carole Bannes, Jack Day, S. Fary, Whitney Cecil, Sarah Turner

Contents 1 Goals 2 Projects 2.1 Current County Projects 2024 2.2 Previous County Projects 2023 2.3 District of Columbia On-going 2.3.1 District of Columbia Slave Owners 2.3.2 District of Columbia Slaves 2.4 Maryland Notables 2.5 General Maryland Tasks 3 Resources 4 Stickers 5 WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project 6 Sources

Goals

This team is part of the US Black Heritage Project. Our goals are the following with specific emphasis on Maryland:

• To collect in one place information and resources to assist in building and documenting African-American Genealogies.
• To create the largest online public database of connected African-American families.
• To bring together WikiTreers interested in connecting African-American families to the Global Family Tree.
• To process all types of documents from Maryland regarding free and enslaved ancestors with the goal of creating their profiles and connecting them to their descendants.
• To provide and maintain a logical and organized structure to help individuals identify their ancestors and celebrate their history.
• To improve all profiles of ancestors with Black heritage in Maryland, which may include biography building, sourcing, and making correct connections.

Projects

• Locating and documenting all African-American cemeteries in Maryland, including developing profiles on WikiTree for persons found, as well as free space pages for the cemeteries. Category: Maryland, African-American Cemeteries
• Special Project: Laurel Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland Please use the spreadsheet attached to the page to work on this project.
• 1880 Census' for Maryland Counties: US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project, Maryland
• The District of Columbia is included in every focus period. See below.

Current County Projects 2024

• Garrett County 1880 Census ‘’’COMPLETED’’’

• Allegany County 1880 Census

Previous County Projects 2023

• See: African-American Resources for Montgomery County, Maryland
• See: African-American Resources for Talbot County, Maryland

District of Columbia On-going

District of Columbia Cemeteries

Woodlawn Cemetery 7,632 memorials

Columbian Harmony Cemetery 1,218 memorials WikiTree category: Columbian Harmony Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia category

Mount Pleasant Plains Cemetery 108 memorials

Mount Zion Cemetery 2,717 memorials

District of Columbia Slave Owners

• 1850 Slave Schedule, Washington, DC
• 1860 Slave Schedule, Washington, DC
• Category:District of Columbia, Slave Owners
• George Washington Young (1796-1867) needs space page - has named enslaved and was given $18,000 in compensation after the EP.

District of Columbia Slaves

Needs Profiles

• Slaves of John Harry
• Category:District of Columbia, Slaves

Maryland Notables

1. Matthias da Sousa (bef.1634-aft.1643), was an early settler of the Province of Maryland and is often cited as the first person of African descent to vote in an American legislature.
2. Josiah Henson - escaped slave, Underground Railroad conductor, author, minister
3. Frederick Augustus Washington (Bailey) Douglass (abt.1818-1895) - renowned social reformer
4. Charles Remond Douglass (1844-1920) and Laura Antoinette (Haley) Douglass (abt.1850-1928) - founders of Highland Beach Resort town
5. Amanda Jane (Berry) Smith (1837-1915) (née Berry, b. January 23, 1837 – February 24, 1915)

Notables Need Profiles

1. Elizabeth Talford Scott
2. Reginald Lewis 1942–1993
3. William H. Butler b. circa 1829 - d. 1892
4. William H. Butler, b. circa 1829 - d. 1892: https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/013000/013083/html/13083bio.html
5. James Lee Purnell, 1937–2021: https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/36loc/wo/leg/former/html/msa14899.html

General Maryland Tasks

Ship Manifests

• Continue to organize the ships that sailed from Maryland to Liberia. See Emigrants to Liberia See also the Maryland Colonization Society

Plantations

• Locate and document all plantations in Maryland that utilized slave labor with at least 40 named slaves, including developing profiles on WikiTree for enslavers and the enslaved found, and developing free space pages for the plantations and owners.

See Maryland Plantations

Maryland Projects

Catoctin Furnace Patterson Project

Other tasks

• Locate and develop profiles for Freedmen in Maryland.
  • See Freedmen's Communities in Maryland
• Locate African-American settlements, towns and communities in Maryland. Please ask the team leader for current standards.
  • Highland Beach, the first African American-owned summer resort community in the United States

Resources

• • Legacy of Slavery in Maryland, Talbot county Case Studies bios of formerly enslaved, and owners.
• Georgetown University, GU272 Slaves
• The District of Columbia Emancipation Act
• How To Create an African American Settlement Page
• List of First Families of Maryland
• Maryland Freedmen Narratives
• Medusa, Maryland's Cultural Resource Information System Interactive map and database - includes records for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) properties in Maryland, determinations of eligibility (DOE) records, and records for properties in the Maryland Historic Preservation Easement program.
• [1] Laurel Cemetery
• Afro American Ledger

Stickers

Along with the {{African-American Sticker}} you may also wish to add a Maryland sticker to profiles.

Place {{Maryland Sticker|born in Maryland}} below the African American sticker if they were born in Maryland. Place {{Maryland Sticker|living=n}} below the African American sticker if they lived in Maryland for a large part of their life, but were not born there.

WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project

• US Black Heritage Project
• US Black Heritage: Heritage Exchange Portal
• US Black Heritage Index of Plantations
• How To Create an African American Settlement Page

Sources