Charles McDermott

1. Charles McDermott was son of enslavers Frances McDermot and Mary McDermot (née Coward). He was born on 26 February 1776 and died at Orangefield in October 1826.

2. Charles McDermott held enslaved people from by 1817 in St Thomas-in-the-Vale, both as owner and guardian for his children: Mary Ann McDermott, Charles Henry McDermott, Francis McDermott, Henry McDermott, and Elizabeth McDermott. Charles McDermott in 1823 and 1826 was the executor for Elizabeth McKenzie, St Thomas-in-the-Vale.

We are grateful to Steven Carter for his assistance in compiling this entry.

1. Marriage of Francis McDermott and Mary Coward at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-DZXP-2?i=85&cc=1827268. Charles McDermott's baptism record at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-8X1Y-B?i=11&cc=1827268&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AVHDD-1D5. Charles McDermott's burial record (in which his surname is spelled with a single 't') at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-DW6Q-D?i=156&cc=1827268&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A6JFF-HGT2 gives his birth date and suggests that he is very likely the son of Francis and Mary McDermott. The record also indicates that McDermott is 'white,' which helps to distinguish him from Charles McDermot of St Ann, q.v.

2. Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834 and St Thomas in the Vale Slave Register pp. 257-8, via Ancestry.co.uk.