Mintas [no surname given]

1761 - ????


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.

Mintas was 34 at the time of her manumission and likely to have been born in Africa. Upon arriving in Philadelphia she was placed with S.R. Fisher but not bound to his service through an indenture. In 1801 Barclay wrote an account of the emancipation and the fortunes of the former enslaved now living in Philadelphia; Mintas was listed as having married Simon (q.v.) and 'conducts herself reputedly'.


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


Further Information

Spouse
Simon

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

Pen owner David Barclay ordered manumission 1795.


Relationships (2)

Enslaved-manumitted → Previous owner
Notes →
David Barclay ordered manumission...
Wife → Husband