In 1839, Lemuel G. Taylor purchased from Hugh Jenkins a slave, Silas Mulsbury, whose term of servitude was to expire on 1 November 1863 when he would be manumitted. Soon after placing Mulsbury on his farm, Taylor found the slave to be "notoriously bad and vicious." Taylor reports that on one occasion Mulsbury stabbed "one of his negroes" and then ran away, only to be caught near Baltimore. He further recounts that while on Taylor's steamboat "Maryland," Mulsbury attempted to kill two of the boat hands, stabbing one, and throwing a brick at another. Noting that Mulsbury's bad behavior warranted his constant supervision, Taylor sent Mulsbury back to his farm, from which Mulsbury ran away a second time. Mulsbury was apprehended and placed in jail, where he remains. Taylor asks for permission to sell Mulsbury, either in state or out of state.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland
