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Payment from Samuel Chew to James Cannon, January 13, 1798 Mentions wages paid to overseers at Rich Neck plantation
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James Cannon, Rich Neck farm accounts, 1798 Mentions payment for "wine sick negroe", "mending negroes shoes", and "taken negroe Bill [Run Way]"
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James Cannon, Rich Neck farm accounts, 1799-1801 Mentions coffin for "negro woman" as well as shoes and cloth.
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George Ford in account with Osbourn Beck Sawing logs, mentions "Negroe man"
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James Berry payment to Samuel Chew, February 14th, 1803 Received sum of six pounds for the [Hier] of Hannah, signed Batris R. Brewer
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Samuel Chew account with Joseph Brice, April 8, 1796 Reference to "cutting 5 suits for Negroes"
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James Berry accounts, 1802-1803, n.d. Plantation accounts recording payments to "Mr. George's Negro Woman," potentially a healer or midwife. The account includes the "delivery of Harriet," and possibly the delivery of other children such as Fanny. There are also other payments to this woman for unspecified services.
African American people mentioned:
"Mr. George's Negro Woman", Harriet, "The Granny" at Mr. Pearce's, Granny near Fred. Town, Jen Harris, Bet Harris, Suck, & Fanny
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Settlement of Mary Chew (d. 1747) estate, including list of slaves sold, 1745-1747 Includes inventory of goods and chattels of Mary Chew. Lists names and ages of enslaved people.
African American people mentioned:
Enslaved people of White Hall, "home", and Wares Quarter including Johnny, Little Cato, Gruff (sp?), Isaac, Enos, Edward & Boy Dem(sp?), "old Negro man", Abigal, Hannah, (illegible) & child, Nan & child, Grace, Beck (girl), Kate, Belinda, Marie, child Abigal, Alice, Jo (boy), girl The(sp?), "Negro man", Daniel ("distempered"), Minny, Gausman, Hannah & young child, Jonathan, Moll, small child, Juda & child, Rachel & child, Tish, Sall (girl), Grace, Sharper (sp?), Lucey, Pegg, Lucey, "girl about 10 years old"
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Samuel Chew Account Book, 1728-1734 Notes about cargo journal and day book. Includes many names of enslaved people, and references to payment.
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Waste Book - B. Chew executor of Joseph Turner, 1783-1792 Includes payments to infirm slave Hampshire, including wood, lodgings, and eventually his coffin & burial.
African American people mentioned:
Hampshire & wife of Hampshire
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Title Search for Joseph Turner's plantation Wilton, 1724-1745 Includes reference to caring for someone until she is twenty-one or married.
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Letter from Benjamin Chew to Thomas Fitzsimons, March 2, 1796 Includes reference to servant woman Dinah, possibly formerly enslaved.
African American people mentioned:
Dinah
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Letter from Thomas Fitzsimons to Benjamin Chew, September 18, 1799 Regarding payment of time of two "negro women"
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Letter from Thomas Fitzsimons to Benjamin Chew, September 16, 1796 Regarding two "negro women", one neamed Rachel, communicated from Fitzsimons to Chew
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Taxes on Joseph Turner's estate, 1783-1784 Mentions "3 negroes" for 200 pounds in taxes, undated
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Statements of the accounts of Margaret Oswald Smyth and Mary Oswald, 1785-1786 Includes reference to Dinah, an excellent cook. Possibly formerly enslaved.
African American people mentioned:
Dinah
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Statements of the accounts of Margaret Oswald and Frederick Smyth, 1784-1789 Includes references to othe rproperties including Whitehall and Wilton. Also includes receipt for shoes, possibl for enslaved people.
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An additional account of Benjamin Chew and Elizabeth his wife, two of the executors of Joseph Turner's estate. Includes reference to enslaved and infirmed man Hampshire and his wife. Notes provisions for their care, it seems Hampshire died and the estate paid for his coffin and burial.
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Settlement on the estate of Joseph Turner, 1787 Notes payment to Ishmael, a coachman to Joseph Turner
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Sale of transfer by Benjamin Chew of enslaved women Rachel and Hannah to Margaret Oswald Smyth, 1792 Lists Hannah's family relationships (her mother, Rachel) and that she will be enslaved until age 28.
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Notes on Joseph Turner's estate, 1786, n.d. Includes notes regarding wages for servant Dinah and her value. Mentions Dinah is an excellent cook.
African American people mentioned:
Dinah
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Miscellaneous, 1781-1786 Incudes newspaper article regarding some of the Joseph Turner estate
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Joseph Turner bonds - William Cullen , 1782 - 1791, n.d. Inventory includes mention of a "negro man and woman", another document mentions plantations adjoinging Milford Town.
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Margaret Oswald Smyth's petition to the House of Representatives, with response, 1789 Discusses transfer/sale of Wilton Plantation in Passayunk
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Margaret Oswald Smyth to John Penn, Edward Shippen, Thomas Parke (with reponses), 1786, n.d. Includes description of black woman named Dinah, who at her mother's death was upwards of 60 years old, lame and almost blind.
African American people mentioned:
Dinah
