Keturah - KETU1
Title
Keturah - KETU1
Description
Negro slave
Contributor
Jackie Dinan
Sex
Female
Location or Address
Southold
Enslaver or Household
The Landon family.
Source/s
Southold Town Records Volume 3:94.
Original Southold parish register accessed at Ancestry.com under the collection entitled, U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701–1970>New York>Southold>First Presbyterian Church>Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths>1749-1832>image 299/340 (baptism).
Deed of Gift transcription from Grania B. Marcus, Discovering the African-American Experience in Suffolk County, 1620–1860 (1995, 1988): 108. Original at the East Hampton Library, Long Island Collection.
Original Southold parish register accessed at Ancestry.com under the collection entitled, U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701–1970>New York>Southold>First Presbyterian Church>Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths>1749-1832>image 299/340 (baptism).
Deed of Gift transcription from Grania B. Marcus, Discovering the African-American Experience in Suffolk County, 1620–1860 (1995, 1988): 108. Original at the East Hampton Library, Long Island Collection.
Baptism Date
October 7, 1804
Birth Date
1789, calculated from her reported age (28 years) at the time of her manumission which is close to a calculated birth year based on her reported age at death.
Misc. Date
August 10, 1816 (manumission certificate approved by overseers of the poor). October 3, 1817 (manumission certificate recorded by town clerk).
Biographical Notes
She was the daughter of Cyrus Osborn (#1508) and Zipporah (#1507). Her only known sibling was Cyrus (#1509). At some time, she moved from the Landon household to the Horton household after Mary Landon married Silas Horton in 1827. She appeared in the Silas Horton household in the 1850 and 1860 Federal censuses, as well as the 1865 New York State census.
Files
Collection
Citation
“Keturah - KETU1,” Plain Sight Project, accessed April 20, 2024, http://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1510.