Property Sales – List of slaves sold from Samuel Chew's Cecil County plantations, 1812

Item

Title

Property Sales – List of slaves sold from Samuel Chew's Cecil County plantations, 1812

Description

Found within a copy of "Samuel Chew's List of Sales for Benj. Chew, Esq." A comprehensive list of items sold from Samuel Chew's estate, including two pages listing the sales of slaves from Frisbey's Meadows, Great Plantation, and Rich Neck (images 5 & 6). Each line includes the slave's name, the name of the purchaser, and their price. There are a few lines indicating slaves not sold, such as Molly and Patty from Great Plantation, as well as "James" who was given to his mother.

African American people mentioned:
Frank, James, Bill, Perry, Ben, Solomon, Nicholas, Juliana, Sofhia (sp?), Lucy, Phoebe, Lemon, Abraham, Tom, Polly, Lydia, Emeline, Harriott, Susan, Nancy, Washington, James, John, William, James, Ephraim, "old Dick", Michael, Nat (sp?), Enoi, Henry, Philip, Aaron, Michael, Ben, Ro(sp?), Bill, Abraham, Sylvia, Judith's son (?), Jane, Eliza, Deana, Judith, Beck, Maria

Type

text

Creator

Chew, Samuel, 1737-1809 | Chew, Benjamin, 1758-1844

Date Created

1812

Format

manuscript

Is Part Of

Chew family papers (2050) | Box 60 | Folder 8

Spatial Coverage

Chestertown (Md.)

Subject

Slavery--United States--History |Chew family |Plantations--Maryland

Extent

31 pages

Language

eng

Rights

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Item sets

Chew Family Papers