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Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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Slaves on schooner Traveller's Friend revolted in the Patuxent River mouth, seized the vessel from Captain Allen and two white passengers claiming ownership, and sailed to Baltimore. Court investigation followed; passengers reported robbery of money, clothes, and papers.
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On Sunday morning last, the schooner Traveller's Friend, Captain Allen, sailed from a port on the Eastern Shore of this state near to New Market, in Dorchester county, bound for Petersburg in Virginia, and thence for a port in Georgia, having on board besides the captain, two white men, & 27 negroes, men, women and children, claimed as slaves by the white passengers. On Tuesday morning, in the mouth of the Patuxent, where the schooner was at anchor, while the captain and his two white passengers were below at breakfast, one of the men slaves who were manacled, broke their fetters, declared themselves free, put the white men in irons, hoisted anchor and sail, and brought the schooner to Baltimore, where she arrived early this morning.
The captain, passengers, and nearly all the slaves, were this day brought before the Judges of Baltimore City Court, for the purpose of investigating the transaction. The two passengers state, that during the voyage up from Patuxent, they were robbed by the negroes of nearly all their wearing apparel, a large sum of money, and all their papers. They claim to have purchased the negroes as slaves, from various persons on the Eastern Shore.
November 17.
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Baltimore
Event Date
November 14
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the white men were robbed of apparel, money, and papers; all parties brought before baltimore city court judges for investigation; slaves declared themselves free
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Schooner Traveller's Friend, under Captain Allen, sailed from near New Market in Dorchester county bound for Petersburg, Virginia and Georgia with two white passengers and 27 claimed slaves. In the mouth of the Patuxent, manacled slaves broke fetters, put the white men in irons, and sailed the vessel to Baltimore.