slavery in pennsylvania
Susquehanna County tnt (this and that)
Free Persons of Color data
Persons documented in early
marriage and death records
- Henry Hazel, age 18, negro, died at Bridgewater 11 October1842.
- Agnes Hinds [slave dau], married 12 October1831 John Stout [colored],
both of Montrose.
- Obadiah Johnson, Bridgewater, colored, married 18 April1837 Julia Ann
Chester, Harrisburg.
- Philis Sherman, age 61, of Barrington RI, a very much respected colored
woman of the family of Capt. John T. Childs, died 3 May1837.
- Susanna Underwood, Brooklyn, married 6 September1837 William Washington,
Philadelphia, colored. Mrs. Washington's maternal grandfather, Bristol
Budd Sampson, was in the Revolutionary War, attendant on Gen. Washington. He
received a pension with which he bought the land on which he lived in
Brooklyn. His first wife was Phebe, a daughter of Prince Perkins who came
from Connecticut, settled in Brooklyn in 1793, was called Prince Perkins
because had been a slave in the Perkins family while slavery was legal in
Connecticut. Died, 1839.
Source
Harrington, Jeanne E. S. Marriage Records and Death Records 1816-1849 copied
from the Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Newspapers, 1922.
Transcribed by Bettina H. Kesteloot, 2003,
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasusque/sdeaths1.htm and
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasusque/sdeaths2.htm
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