"The property tax assessments of Harford County, Maryland were compiled in February 1814 and listed the owners and valuated their land tracts, buildings, and slaves. This book alphabetically lists some 704 slave owners and identifies about 3,180 slaves. It has been annotated with information from subsequent slave manumissions and sales records, and early Harford County newspaper runaway notices. Research complied by James E. Chrismer, Carolyn Greenfield Adams and the late Hunter C. Sutherland was also consulted ." -- Back Cover.