https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/4b41bb3bce24d1a57bd293287112a45f.pdf 52373951fb6ffedeb44c73a2107ef06f https://www.fssp.artinterp2.org/files/original/7e19a09fd9e7aaeed5fa1329d8b5795d.pdf 85c49675cc8c01c8ccb73581313e2263 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Order by the Provost Marshal at Annapolis, Maryland, and the Provost Marshal to Two White Marylanders Annapolis, Md. Dec. 29” 18[64] Sir A colored woman by the name of Matilda Johnson makes complaint that you have her household goods” in your possession and this is to notify you that you must deliver to her forthwith all goods chattels and household utensils of every description that rightfully belong to her or subject yourself to Military arrest for disobedience of Genl. Order 112 Hd. Qrs. Middle Dept. Genl. Wallace Comdg. Geo. W. Curry Capt. 4” Del. Vols. Provost Marshal Annapolis, Md. Jan. 30" 1865 To whom it may Concern Matilda Johnson colored having claimed Military protection for herself and child a boy named Henry W. Johnson formerly living with Mr James Boyle herself nor boy will not be molested by any one without a written order from this office Geo. W. Curry Capt. 4” Del. Vols. Provost Marshal Annapolis Md. Feb. 9" 1865 Gentlemen I am receipt of your Communications of the 5th Inst and after a careful perusal of their contents beg leave to say that I have given an order to Matilda Johnson the mother of the boy mentioned of which the following is a true copy And I would further state that in view of the representations made by you and others I have no objections to your again getting possesion of the boy You can see by the reading of the order that the case was left open for an appeal by you if you thought proper to do so but I have never been approached on the subject directly except day before yesterday by a colored girl who said that she lived with you and gave me a pretty clear understanding in the case and I told her that when I saw or received a proper communication from either of you I would attend to the matter as I did not deem her a proper channel of communication and I do think that in my official capacity as Provost Marshal that I have tried to act with courtesy and give proper attention to all be they in what circumstances of life they may and I do not think that my worst enemies can charge me with ignoring even the most common civilities in my official capacity In regard to the violation of an organic law of your State I have only to say that the law is well enough in its self but it has been shamefully abused my many citizens of this state who call themselves Gentlemen and they have taken advantage of the ignorance of the freedmen and women and indentured under the plea of their not being able to support them their children when in many cases the children were large and old enough to in a great measure support their parents and it was this state of things that caused the issue of Genl. order No. 112. by Genl. Lew Wallace comdg Middle Dept You will find enclosed an order for Matilda Johnson to give the child into your charge which trusting will be satisfactory I. Remain Gentlemen Your. Obt Servant Geo. W. Curry. Provost Marshal Capt. Geo. W. Curry to James Boyle, 29 Dec. 1864, vol. 153/306 8AC, Letters Sent, ser. 1350, Annapolis MD, Provost Marshal Field Organizations, RG 313 Pt. 4 [C-8938]; Capt. Geo. W. Curry, 30 Jan. 1865, vol. 153/306 8AC, Letters Sent, ser. 1350, Annapolis MD, Provost Marshal Field Organizations, RG 313 Pt. 4 [C-8938]; Geo. W. Curry. to Mess. J. & L. Boyle, 9 Feb. 1866, vol. 153/306 8AC, Letters Sent, ser. 1350, Annapolis MD, Provost Marshal Field Organizations, RG 313 Pt. 4 [C-8938]. General Order 112 was issued on Nov. 9, 1864, and it placed formerly enslaved people under “special military protection” until the state legislature enacted laws that would render such protection unnecessary. It cited numerous cases of former slaveowners who had “avail[ed] themselves of certain laws, portions of the ancient slave code of Maryland, as yet unrepealed, to initiate as respects the persons heretofore slaves, a system of forced apprenticeship” as a reason why such special protection was necessary. For the full order, see General Orders No. 112, Head-Quarters Middle Department, Eighth Army Corps, 9 Nov. 1864, in Freedom, ser. 1, vol. 2: doc. 142. The state law referred to was the law regulating apprenticeship in Maryland. It permitted the orphans' courts to summon the child of any free black person, “and if it shall appear upon examination before such court that it would be better for the habits and comfort of such child that it should be bound as an apprentice to some white person to learn to labor, the court shall bind such child as an apprentice to some white person.” The parents were to be present at the binding, as no child was to be bound “if the parent or parents ha[d] the means and [were] willing to support such child and keep the same employed so as to teach habits of industry.” (The Maryland Code, Baltimore, Md., 1860, p. 38.) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Formerly enslaved Matilda Johnson petitions the Freedmen's Bureau for the return of her children and household goods, after which the agency waived her right to her children Description An account of the resource Series of complaints around property rights and apprenticeship for Black residents of Anne Arundel County. Of special interest are the two complaints by Matilda Johnson relating to her children and household goods being held illegally by James Boyle. Resolution of the case indicates that while the Freedmen's Bureau had intervened to have her children returned, Boyle was successful in getting permission to retrieve them under previous apprenticeship proceedings. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/29/1864 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Anne Arundel Co, MD Apprentice bureaucracy children property ownership women