MARYLAND Manuscript warrant to thwart the lynching of an imp

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MARYLAND. Manuscript warrant to thwart the lynching of an imprisoned slave. Single 8vo leaf, written in a neat cursive script; paper lightly and evenly toned, docketed on the reverse Judge Philemon B Hoffman. State of Maryland vs. Joel Fallowfield, fine of $200. Maryland, 16 June, 1857

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A certain lynching averted by a warrant to Sheriff A. A. Duhamel, who was ordered to "Take Joel Fallowfield. . .if he be found in your bailiwick and . . . safely keep so that you have his body before the Circuit Court . . . to be held . . . the first Monday of November next . . . to answer for Combining, Conspiring and agreeing to enter the jail of Queen Ann's County and take there from Negro David Seney, slave of Chas. McCollister and John D. Elliott, a prisoner there confined, with the intentions to hang or otherwise kill and murder said Negro."