I am very interested in meeting or at least talking to you. I work for the
National Park Service's National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
Program. I am anxious to identify sites associated with African Americans
who sought freedom from enslavement (by going to the British) during the
War of 1812. So far I only know of a site associated with Jefferson
Patterson Park and Museum in Calvert Co. My phone number is 202-690-5166. I
am based in National Capital Parks-East in Anacostia which manages Fort
Washington and Piscataway Park among other sites in Prince George's County,
MD.




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During the several years that I have been researching the Black refugees of
the War of 1812 and the Corps of Colonial Marines, I have received welcome
and generous help from various members of this list (and others, hence some
cross-posting). I shall be in the US for a two-week visit in October,
including a symposium in Baltimore, and I hope for some opportunity of
meeting e-mail acquaintances during that time, between October 6 and 18.

On Saturday 9 October my paper entitled 'Against Their Old Masters:
Britain's Corps of Colonial Marines' opens the Eighth National War of 1812
Symposium, and I have posted information on the symposium, on behalf of the
organizers, at www.mcnish-weiss.co.uk/symposium.html. Also while in
Maryland, I plan further work at the National Archives at College Park with
my wife Althea McNish (whose ancestor Polydore McNish was one of the
Colonial Marines, recruited in Georgia) and we hope to visit sites of
British landings (and Black escape) in the Patuxent river. I look forward
to
hearing from anyone on the list with whom we might make contact during our
stay, 6-18 October, and I can then discuss details of our itinerary and
contact points.

John Weiss
Independent scholar, London
Black Freedom Fighters of the War of 1812
www.mcnish-weiss.co.uk/colonialmarines.html

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