Patience [no surname given]

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.

Patience was 32 at the time of her manumission and likely to have been born in Africa. Upon arriving in Philadelphia she was not bound by an indenture and soon resided in the Alms' House. Patience died in June 1798 in the Alms' House and was recorded in Barclay's 1801 account as being of 'perverse disposition and very troublesome.'

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