J. More

J. More, a Black man, was being taken before a magistrate near Bellair in Hartford County, Maryland, in July 1868, in the custody of officers escorting him. A mob took him from those officers and hanged him, according to a Baltimore dispatch printed in The Athens Post. The officers were not named, and the dispatch does not say whether they resisted the mob or gave him up.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Baltimore dispatch reports that a mob took J. More from officers while he was being brought before a magistrate near Bellair in Hartford County and hanged him.

Reported by: Baltimore dispatch (reporters).

Source

• The Athens Post, July 31, 1868, page 2 The Athens Post, July 31, 1868