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The majority of information for my mother's side of the family was told to me by Great Aunt Elsie Greenleaf, Uncle Stanley Brown and Ms Brown (unknown if we are related) who works at Mt Olivet Cemetary in Washington DC. The information about my fathers family came from Aunt Gladys Coley and the 1900 Census. Aunt Gladys remembers her grandmother saying that her mother had come over on a slave ship from Africa (we don't know her given name, but she was called Marah, Mary or Margerett). She was blessed not to become inslaved thanks to an Native American know as William Thomas after converting to Catholicsm, he was a basket peddler. Wev'e been told that Willam Thomas saw the African before she was put on the aution block, went to the Captain of the ship bought her and married her. We would appreciate any information on the correct names of these two, what part of Africa she came from, the names of the Captain the Ship.
As far as I know my ancestors came from parts of Charles County, St. Marys County, T. B. and Clinton Maryland.
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