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Jeremiah Davis

Name: Jeremiah Davis

Affiliation: Union

Unit: 4th USCT Inf.

Race: African American

Owner's Name: Jeremiah Davis

Place of Birth/Residence: Libertytown, Frederick County, MD

Enlistment Date: 08/07/1863

Company: J

Slave at Enlistment?: Yes

Notes:

Manumission recorded 04/11/1864

Source(s):

Frederick County Land Records, JWLC 1, page 75-76. Folio online at MDLandRec.Net ; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 284; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 49, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678)

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