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Monday, March 15, 2010

1820 Delaware Fee Man Captured and Beaten

BALTIMORE June 1st 1820 - On Friday night last in the vicinity of the town of Salisbury, Md. the noted kidnapper Dean Marvell, of Delaware, with an associate by the name of Curtis Stene, ware decoyed and apprehended by the Protecting Society of Salisbury, and have been safely committed to the jail of Somerset County. They were taken in the very act of delivering to the purchaser a free negro man, whom in securing, they bad inhumanly beaten. They acknowledge the negro to be free, and say that his name is Peter Chance, of Wilmington, Del.

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