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Edward Gorsuch's Original Fugitive Slave Petition and Ownership Documentation: Court Record   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. (09/24/1789 - 03/21/1892?)
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Edward Gorsuch's Original Fugitive Slave Petition and Ownership Documentation: Court Record
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  • Scope and content: Mr. Gorsuch requests permission of the court to seek out and recover his fugitive slaves: Noah Baley, Nelson Ford, George Hammond, Joshua Hammond, Eli Ford, and Charles Ford. The Court did grant Edward Gorsuch the right to reclaim his slaves. But upon taking this action Mr. Gorsuch lost his life and caused the so-called Christiana Riot in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Some say this event foretold the onset of the Civil War. The accounts of the incident state that more than a hundred individuals gathered to prevent the arrest of fugitive slaves, Josh Hammond and Nelson Ford. One hundred and severteen indictments were handed down, making this the largest mass indictment for treason in our nation's history.
Date between 10 March 1833 and 18 September 1850
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1833-03-10T00:00:00Z/11,P1326,+1850-09-18T00:00:00Z/11
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NARA's Mid Atlantic Region (Philadelphia) (NRBA), 900 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107-4292.
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  • Record group: Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2004 (National Archives Identifier: 350)
  • Series: Fugitive Slave Case Papers, compiled 1850 - 1860 (National Archives Identifier: 278775)
  • File unit: Edward Gorsuch's Original Fugitive Slave Petition and Ownership Documentation, 05/27/1851 - 05/28/1851 (National Archives Identifier: 278823)
  • NAIL Control Number: NRBPA-21-24M103A-12-4
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