Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives"

Fugitive Slaves > R - S > Simms, Henry

   
   
   
slave name: Simms, Henry
owner name: Berry, Albert
occupation: farmer and slave trader, Prince George's Co.
state: District of Columbia
town: Washington
census: 1860 farmer, ladesnburg,
60,000 real, 25,000 personal,
with wife, 33 slaves 4-55.  1850 planter, 1500 property,
28 slaves 1-80.
comments: leaves mother and four sisters; Canada census 1861, mulatto,
36, plasterer, married, Louisa Simms, literate, Chatham,
CW living among other blacks

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