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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Hickman
Given Name:
James
Soundex Code:
H250
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth or Christening:
about 1751
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
by 1774
Place of Indenture
County:
Baltimore
Colony:
Maryland
Research Notes
Proof of Convict Status:
"Ran away, last night, from the subscriber, living in Baltimore County, about twelve miles from Baltimore-Town, in Maryland, a convict servant man, named James Hickman, straight, well made, and of a fresh complexion; about 23 years of age, five feet 6 or 7 inches high, has short dark hair, dark eyes, a blemish in his left eye; is pitted with the small-pox, and has had his collar bone broke, which makes a bump..."
Source Citations:
(1) Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (1988; New York, 1986), centerpiece, quoting The Maryland Journal, and the Baltimore Advertiser, February 24 to March 3, 1774.