Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives"

Fugitive Slaves > C - D > Cummens, Mary

   
   
   
slave name: Cummens, Mary
owner name: Hollingsworth, Jacob
occupation: planter
state: Maryland
town: Hagerstown
county: Washington County
census: 1860, 70, no occ, 154,000 real, 3060 pers, w wife, 67, 6 others.  1840 owns ten slaves
place /name sent: Syracuse, N.Y. / Samuel J. May and Toronto, Canada / Thomas Henning
comments: mother of James and Lucy; poss Mary Cummings, mulatto, 50, illiterate, and Luisa Cummings, 19, Hamilton, Canada West, 1861.  (Lucy age 11 in 1855); owner colonel

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