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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [ADVANRES] Fugitive status and petty larceny
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 20:59:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: <000301c5625d$ef7acc10$6501a8c0@Fran>


"In 1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law. Only John P. Hale, Charles
Sumner, Salmon Chase and Benjamin Wade voted against the measure. The law
stated that in future any federal marshal who did not arrest an alleged
runaway slave could be fined $1,000. People suspected of being a runaway
slave could be arrested without warrant and turned over to a claimant on
nothing more than his sworn testimony of ownership. A suspected black slave
could not ask for a jury trial nor testify on his or her behalf."

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASfugitive.htm


So looks like you found yourself a runaway slave or at least someone accused
of being one.


Teresa Ghee Elliott All links start with
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery and then add

Rutherford Co., TN cemeteries: see above

TMG sentence structures: /TMG.html

Descendants of James Edde of Bedford County, TN /EDDE/index.htm


-----Original Message-----
From: FredandFran [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:47 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] Fugitive status and petty larceny

Thank you, Jeanne.

I have no further information on Silas WEST who was first identified by name
and race (mulatto) on the 1870 population census of Sampson Co., NC. No
prior record of Silas has been found among population census, land, wills,
estates, tax records. The information given to me is that Silas had been
found
on a census listed as a fugitive of the state. I have been unable to find
that record but have no access to slave schedules; hence the question.

Thank you very much.



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