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HISTORICAL ANNOTATION 671

by location, demanded more markets to address new needs. Plans for three new
markets followed. The Centre or Marsh Market and the Hanover Market shared the
proceeds of the sale of the grounds of the first market house to finance their creation.
The fourth and last market that existed during Douglass's time in Baltimore, the
Lexington Market, was developed in the western precincts of Baltimore Centre or
Marsh Market in Harrison Street became a locus for wholesaling, shipping, and
finance. Hanover or Camden Market on Howard's Hill functioned primarily as a
wholesale produce market. Douglass probably had the most vivid recollection of the
third market site, the Fells Point or Broadway Market, nearest the residence of Hugh
and Sophia Auld. J. Thomas Scharf, History of Baltimore City and County: From the
Earliest Period to the Present Day (Philadelphia, 1881), 205-11; Sherry H. Olson,
Baltimore: The Building of an American City (Baltimore, 1980), 19-20, 55, 175.
59.3-4 quitted the quarter-deck] The portion of the upper or spar-deck that
extends between the stern and aftermast and is used as a promenade by the superior
officers or cabin passengers.
59.13 dome of the State house] The state house at Annapolis, Maryland, completed
in 1799, is a brick building topped by a tall, white-painted octagonal wooden
dome. Writers' Program of the Work Project Administration in the State of Maryland,
comp., Maryland: A Guide to the Old Line State (1940; New York, 1973), 181-82.
59.17-18 Smith's wharf, not far from Bowly's wharf] Smith's Wharf and
Bowley's Wharf were two sturdily built wharves below Pratt Street in Baltimore's
inner harbor, the Basin, west of Fells Point. The city directory at times spelled the
latter as "Bowly's Wharf." Matchett's Baltimore Directory for 1827 (Baltimore,
1827), 18-19; Olson, Baltimore, 60.
59.20 Curtiss, on Loudon Slater's hill] Although no Curtiss is listed as a victualer
or butcher, common designations for those operating a slaughterhouse, Baltimore city
directories from 1824 through 1829 list variously a James Curtain, Thomas Curtain,
and a W. Curtain as victualers. They may have been located on the western corner of
what was called Loudenslager, not Loudon Slater's, Hill in the northeastern portion
of the city. This area did in fact have a number of abattoirs in it. Matchett's Baltimore
Directory for 1824 ( Baltimore, 1824), 74; Matchett's Baltimore Directory for 1827,
70; Matchett's Baltimore Directory for 1829 (Baltimore, 1829), 78.
59.20 Rich] Rich (1817-?) was one of the slaves who served as the crew of the
Sally Lloyd appearing in the business records of Edward Lloyd V. Various account
books and cash books, Land Papers--Maintenance of Property, Land Volume 39, reel
10, Lloyd Family Papers, MdHi.
59.21 my new home on Aliceanna street] Neither the 1824 nor 1827 Baltimore
directory, the only extant directories in this period, lists Hugh Auld's residence. The
Baltimore City Commission on Historical and Architectural Preservation established
that Hugh Auld's house was on the southeast corner of Aliceanna and Durham, formerly
Happy Alley, streets in Fells Point. Contemporary sources spell the street
"Alisanna" (1824) or "Alice Anna" (1827). Matchett's Baltimore Directory for 1824,