Sarah Parsons retrieves her daughters from her former enslaver with help from the military
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Sarah Parsons retrieves her daughters from her former enslaver with help from the military
Description
Saml B Lawrence to Col. Wm H. Browne (AAPMG for MD & DE) directing him to send the deputy pro mar at Salsbury "to compel Joshua W Phillips, in Barren Creek District Somerset Co, to deliver to Sarah Parsons (colored) all her children now withheld from her by said Phillips." If Phillips refused, he was to be arrested and sent to Baltimore.
Date
12/2/1864
Coverage
Somerset County, MD
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Headquarters of the Middle Department to the Acting Assistant Provost Marshal General for Maryland and Delaware; and the Deputy Provost Marshal of Somerset County to the Provost Marshal General
Head Quarters, Middle Department, 8th Army Corps,
Baltimore, December 2nd 1864
Colonel, I am instructed by the Major General Commanding to request you to direct Mr Levin D Collier Dept: Pro: Marshal at Salisbury, to proceed at once to compel Joshua W Phillips, in Barren Creek District Somerset Co, to deliver to Sarah Parsons (colored) all her children now withheld from her by said Phillips. If he fails or refuses to obey your order, to arrest him and send him at once to Baltimore, and deliver him to the Provost Marshal, 8th A.C. I am Colonel Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant
Saml B Lawrence
A. A. G.
To Col. Wm H. Browne
A.A.P.M.G., Md & Del.
Deputy Provost Marshals office
Salisbury [Md.] Dec. 9" 1864.
Col. Wm H. Browne,
A. A. Prov. Mar. Genl.
for Maryland & Delaware.
Dear Sir— In accordance with instructions received from you, I proceeded to the residence of Joshua H. Phillips, Esq. and demanded the delivery of the children of Sarah Parsons (Col.) The children were delivered to Sarah and said Phillips gave me an instrument of writing relinquishing all claims to them. Very Respectfully Your obdt. Servant
Levin D. Collier
Dep. Prov. Mar.
for Somerset Co. Md
Saml B Lawrence to Col. Wm H. Browne, 2 Dec. 1864, filed with Levin D. Collier to Col. Wm H. Browne, 9 Dec. 1864, M-834 1864, Letters Received, ser. 2343, Middle Dept. & 8th Army Corps, RG 393 Pt. 1 [C-4236]. The children listed as owned by Jos W Phillips on the 1860 census were two girls, one and three years old.
Head Quarters, Middle Department, 8th Army Corps,
Baltimore, December 2nd 1864
Colonel, I am instructed by the Major General Commanding to request you to direct Mr Levin D Collier Dept: Pro: Marshal at Salisbury, to proceed at once to compel Joshua W Phillips, in Barren Creek District Somerset Co, to deliver to Sarah Parsons (colored) all her children now withheld from her by said Phillips. If he fails or refuses to obey your order, to arrest him and send him at once to Baltimore, and deliver him to the Provost Marshal, 8th A.C. I am Colonel Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant
Saml B Lawrence
A. A. G.
To Col. Wm H. Browne
A.A.P.M.G., Md & Del.
Deputy Provost Marshals office
Salisbury [Md.] Dec. 9" 1864.
Col. Wm H. Browne,
A. A. Prov. Mar. Genl.
for Maryland & Delaware.
Dear Sir— In accordance with instructions received from you, I proceeded to the residence of Joshua H. Phillips, Esq. and demanded the delivery of the children of Sarah Parsons (Col.) The children were delivered to Sarah and said Phillips gave me an instrument of writing relinquishing all claims to them. Very Respectfully Your obdt. Servant
Levin D. Collier
Dep. Prov. Mar.
for Somerset Co. Md
Saml B Lawrence to Col. Wm H. Browne, 2 Dec. 1864, filed with Levin D. Collier to Col. Wm H. Browne, 9 Dec. 1864, M-834 1864, Letters Received, ser. 2343, Middle Dept. & 8th Army Corps, RG 393 Pt. 1 [C-4236]. The children listed as owned by Jos W Phillips on the 1860 census were two girls, one and three years old.
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“Sarah Parsons retrieves her daughters from her former enslaver with help from the military,” Black Maryland in the Civil War—A Microedition of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, accessed June 8, 2026, https://fssp.artinterp2.org/items/show/59.