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Thomas McCreary
From Milt Diggins, June 16, 2006
Your website is a valuable resource and I wanted to
introduce myself and establish contact with you because of your
knowledge of Thomas McCreary. I am Milt Diggins, a retired history
teacher and the editor of the Cecil County Historical Journal, a
publication of the Cecil County Historical Society. I started
gathering information on McCreary several years ago when I first came
across a reference to him and just recently increased the level of
research in hopes of eventually writing articles and a book on McCreary
and possibly other slave catchers / kidnappers operating along the
Mason-Dixon line, and looking at the tensions between Maryland and
Pennsylvania over the issue. After reviewing the list of sources you had
on the Rachel Parker case and David
Smith had on the attempted capture of
McCreary, I would appreciate knowing of any additional resources you
would recommend to me on the subject.
Chris Densmore recently visited our historical society, and I was
able to share some local material and discuss McCreary with him. We have
copies of the Cecil Whig and Cecil Democrat with
references to Thomas McCreary that provide a south-of-the-line
perspective.
Thank you for any assistance you can offer, and let me know if I might
be of assistance to you in your McCreary research, or any related
research from the northeast corner of Maryland.
Milt Diggins