slavery in pennsylvania
Delaware County tnt (this and that)
free people of color
Middletown Township
Obituary of Charity White, 1851
"Death Notice
"At her residence in Middletown, Delaware county, on Friday last, CHARITY WHITE,
better known as Aunt Charity, aged about 100 years. - The deceased had been a
slave on the Eastern shore of Maryland, and emigrated to this county on the
death of her master, many years ago. She was attached to the M.E. Church, and
was a member in good standing at the time of her death. Her funeral took place
on Sunday last, and was largely attended by the people of the neighborhood in
which she lived."Notes
According to the 1850 census of Middletown
Township, Delaware County, Charity White was living with the Cornelius Barnes
family. Cornelius, a 60 year-old laborer, lived with his wife Charity,
aged 52, and four children: John Barnes, a 30 year-old laborer, Rebecca, aged
23, Mary, aged 19, and Cornelius, aged 10. All were free African
Americans who listed their birthplace as Pennsylvania, with the exception of
Cornelius senior, who was born in Maryland. Charity White lived in the
same household and was listed by the census taker being 105 years old, making
her year of birth, according to this census, 1745. She listed her place of
birth as North Carolina, and according to the census could not read or write.
Sources
Delaware County Republican, 02 May 1851.
1850 Census, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, page 184.
Upper Providence Township
Obituary of Nancy Burton, 1869
"Death Notice DEATH OF AN AGED WOMAN
"A colored woman, named Nancy Burton, a resident of Upper Providence,
where she has lived for a long time, died on Saturday last, at the advanced age,
as near as can be ascertained, of one hundred and fifteen years. She has been
living with her daughter, who is known to be between seventy and eighty, and
today is active as most persons at fifty, being able to spring over a four
railed fence, by placing her hands on the topmost bar. Our oldest citizens say
she has been a very old woman as long as they can remember, and believe that she
was even more aged than stated above. While she was young she was a slave, and
asserted that she had often seen Gen. Washington. Nancy's neighbors took quite
an interest in her welfare, supplying her while she lived with many comforts and
seeing that she was decently buried."
Source
Delaware County Advertiser, 1869,
reprinted in the (Chester) Village Record, 13 November, 1869.
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