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Charlotte [no surname given]

Profile & Legacies Summary

1790 - ????

Biography

Enslaved person living and working on Unity Valley Pen (Portland), Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay (q.v.) and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.

Charlotte was 5 at the time of her manumission. Upon arriving in Philadelphia she was indentured for 13 years to be taught 'housewifery, to read and write and have freedom dues'. In his 1801 account Barclay recorded Charlotte, aged 9, as 'still in place'.


Sources

David Barclay, An account of the emancipation of the slaves of Unity Valley Pen Jamaica (London, 1801). Available through Googlebooks: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FuRbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA6&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
- 1795 [EY] → Enslaved
Unity Valley Pen [ Jamaica | St Ann ]

Pen owner David Barclay ordered manumission 1795.

Relationships (1)

Charlotte [no surname given]
Enslaved-manumitted → Previous owner
David Barclay
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David Barclay ordered manumission...