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	PAGE HARRIS, Ex-alave


Reference z	- Personal interview with Page Harria at hie home ‚ Camp Paroi e, A.Lc. Co., Md.


	“I was born in 1858 about 3 inilea west of Chicamuxen near the Potomac River in Charles County on the farm of Burton Stafford, better known as Blood Houmd Manor. This name was applied beoause Mr. Stafford raised and trained blood hounds to track runaway slaves and to sell to flaveholders of Maryland, Virginia and other southern states as far south as Miasissippi and Louisiana.

	“My father‘ s nana was Sam and mother‘ a Mary, ~both of wh~a belonged to the Stafforda and were reared in~Oharles County. They r~áred a family of nine children, I being the oldest and the only one born a slave, the rest free. I think it was in 1859 or it might be 1860 when the Staffords I iberated ~ parents, not because he believed in the freedom of slaves but because of saving the lives of hie entire family.

	Mr. Stafford oame from Prince Will jam County, Virginia, a county on the west aide of the Potomac River in Virginia. Mr. end Mrs • Stafford had a large rowboat that they used on the Potomac as a fishing and oyster boat as well as a transportation boat across the Potomac River to Quantioo, a small town in Prinee William County, Va., and up Quantico Creek fn the same county.

~	“I have been told by my parents and also by Joshua Stafford, the

oldest son of Mr. Stafford, that one Sunday morning on the date as related in the story previously Mrs. Stafford and her 3 children were being rowed across the Potomac River to attend a Baptist church in Virginia of whioh she was a wember. . Suddenly a wind and a thunder storm arose causing the boat to capsize.

•Î4 father was fishing front a log raft in the river, immediately wśtt to their rescue • The wind blew the raft towards the oentre of the • stream and in line