Original baptism record at Ancestry.com>U.S. Presbyterian Church Records 1701-1970>New York>Southold>First Presbyterian Church>Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths>1749-1832>image 192/340.
Marriage recorded in The Salmon Records, 111.
Southold Town Records Volume 3:52-53 (transcript). Original record at URL southoldtownny.gov=>Weblink/Laserfiche=>Town Clerk>Town Record Books>Liber D 1683-1832>image 30/238 [bottom left].
Death acknowledged in the Sag Harbor Express, October 20, 1870, page 2.
Male or Female
Male
Baptism Date
July 14, 1771
Birth Date
1772 [Birth year was calculated from reported age at manumission (34 years).]
Marriage Date
April 26, 1798
Death Date
1862
Misc. Date
Manumission recorded on January 30, 1806.
Biographical Notes
Jason wasn't a common name at the time and he was probably the same man who married Peg (#1601) in 1798.
His mother, Catherine/Cate (#1740), was a servant of Moses Case. His probable father was Cesar (#1739). HIs siblings included Enos (#1741), Limus (#1743), and Festus (#1744).
He eventually moved to Shelter Island where he was enumerated as head of household in the following years:
1820: 1 male 45+, 1 female 45+, 1 female 26-44, 2 males 14-25, 1 female under 14, Total = 6;
1830: 1 male 55-99, 1 female 36-54, 2 males 24-35, 1 female 24-35, Total = 5;
1840: 1 male 55-99, 1 female 55-99, 2 males 24-35, 1 male under 10, Total = 5;
1850: Jason Case, 76; Peggy Case, 70.
1860: Jason Case, 102; Peggy Case 97 (in Elias Paine household). [Their reported ages were incorrect.]
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 189/340.
Jacob E. Mallmann's Historical Papers on Shelter Island and its Presbyterian Church (1899), 75-76. Available at Archive.org.
Baptism Date
October 29, 1769
Biographical Notes
Both reside on Shelter Island. Note: Thomas Dering kept five enslaved people in 1776. In 1821, the widow of Sylvester Dering manumitted an enslaved man named London. This baptism record was likely that of the same man. He took the surname Ward and was enumerated as free household head residing on Shelter Island in the following censuses:
1810: 5 free people of color.
1820: 1 male 45+, 1 female 45+, 1 female 26-44, 1 male 14-25, 1 female 14-25, total=5.
1830: 1 male 55-99, 1 female 36-54, 2 males 10-23, 1 female 10-23, total=5.
1840: 1 male 55-99, 1 female 55-99, 1 male 36-54, 1 male 24-35, total=4.
He was probably the father of Terrisa/Teresa Ward (#1531). He was likely closely related (brother or father) to Frank Ward who was a free person of color in a household of two people on Shelter Island in the 1810 federal census.
Grania B. Marcus, Discovering the African-American Experience in Suffolk County, 1620-1860 (1995, 1988): 61 (transcript of oral history source; original at the Center for Brooklyn History, formerly the Brooklyn Historical Society).
Advertisement of property sale from The Corrector (Sag Harbor), March 29, 1837, page 4 [the advertisement ran weekly for several months].
Male or Female
Female
Birthplace
Shelter Island [probably]
Death Date
March 1837
Biographical Notes
An oral history source [diary of Augustus Griffin] states she was born into slavery, the daughter of Crank (#1511) and Florah (#1512); that she was manumitted at age 25; and she managed to purchase a small property with modest house. She was enumerated in the 1820 and 1830 Federal censuses in Shelter Island with the following household members:
1820: 1 female 45+ years, 1 female 14-25, 1 male 14-25 (all free people of color).
1830: 2 females 55-99 (both free people of color).
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 122/340.
Original record at Ancestry.com>U.S. Presbyterian Church Records 1701-1970>New York>Southold>First Presbyterian Church>Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths>1749-1832>image 122/340.
1763-1770, calculated from age reported in various records
Marriage Date
April 26, 1798
Death Date
October 11, 1870
Biographical Notes
She married Jason Case (#1745). They had at least four children, including a son named Crank.
Their household (all free people of color) was listed in the following censuses, residing in Shelter Island:
1820: One male, 45+; one female, 45+; one female, age 26-44; two males, 14-25; one female, under 14.
1830: One male, 55-100; one female, 36-54; one female, 24-36; two males, 10-24.
1840: One male, 55-99; one female, 55-99; two males, 24-35; one male, under 10.
1850: Jason Case, 76; Peggy Case, 70.
1860 (in Elias Paine household): Jason Case, 102; Peggy Case, 97.
Owner or Household
David Wiggins registered a daughter and son born of his enslaved servant Peg in the Southold town record books.
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 127/340.
1850 and 1860 federal census enumerations of Southampton, Sag Harbor post office.
Death notice from unnamed newspaper attached to Ancestry Public Tree.
Birth Date
1802-1807 (birth year range calculated from age reported on 1850 federal census and death notice).
Marriage Date
June 15, 1828
Death Date
June 21, 1894
Biographical Notes
She married William Prime (#1530) of Shelter Island. She was likely a daughter of London Ward (#1738). She and her husband moved to Sag Harbor where they raised six children. She died in 1894.
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 127/340 (marriage).
Affidavit of free status given at Philadelphia (1831); available at Ancestry.com.
Five children are named in the 1850 federal census at Southampton; Marcy (21), William (18), Rachel (17), James (15), and Charles (6). The eldest son, Henry (born 1825) is unsourced at this time.
Newsclipping from Sag-Harbor Express, January 19, 1860, page 2 (incomplete).
Birth Date
circa 1808 (birth year calculated from reported age in 1850 federal census).
Marriage Date
June 15, 1828 at Southold First Presbyterian Church.
Death Date
(1865, unsourced)
Biographical Notes
He married Terrisa Ward (#1531) of Shelter Island. He stood 5'3" tall with black eyes and a burn scar on his right leg below the knee. A seaman by trade. He and Terrisa/Teresa raised six children six children in Sag Harbor, where he was an active member of the Zion AME Church. He died in 1865 (unsourced).
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 121/340.
Marriage Date
January 17, 1799
Biographical Notes
She married Cuff (#1520), a negro man of Jonathan Havens of Shelter Island.
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 121/340.
Marriage Date
January 17, 1799, at First Presbyterian Church at Southold.
Biographical Notes
He married Lydia (#1521), a negro woman of Shelter Island.
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 275/340.
A History of Mattituck, Long Island, N.Y. Charles E. Craven (1906), page 350.
A transcript of the oral history source from Grania B. Marcus, Discovering the African-Americam Experience in Suffolk County, 1620-1860 (1995, 1988): 61 (original at the Center of Brooklyn History, formerly the Brooklyn Historical Society).
Biographical Text
An oral history source [diary of Augustus Griffin] states she was a well-regarded nurse and implies that she was the mother of Dianna Williams (#1683).
Marriage Date
January 2, 1764
Death Date
May 21, 1795
Biographical Notes
She married Crank (#1511), a Negro. Flora, an uncommon name, pops up in records of the Hudson family (of Shelter Island and Southold), suggesting they were her likely enslavers. In 1774, Samuel Hudson (died 1781) instructed in his will that "my negro wench Florah...shall have her choice which of my daughters she shall live with after my wife's decease which said wench I give to my wife during her life."
She was likely the woman named Florow "wench of Samuel Hutson" whose death was recorded at Mattituck, suggesting that she (or perhaps her daughter) had become the property of Samuel's heir, also named Samuel Hudson (1738-1812).
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 275/340.
Letter. Henry Packer Dering to Nichol Havens, April 19, 1825. Original in the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection.
Biographical Text
Oral tradition from the diary of Augustus Griffin states that Crank was known on Shelter Island "as a manufacturer of salt from salt water by boiling it at Shelter Island in the Revolutionary War." The same source states he was the father of Diana Williams of Shelter Island (#1683). [Transcript from Grania B. Marcus, Discovering the African-American Experience in Suffolk County, 1620-1860 (1995, 1988): 61. Original at the Center for Brooklyn History (formerly the Brooklyn Historical Society).
He was enumerated in the 1790 and 1800 federal censuses, residing in Shelter Island.
Henry Packer Dering, in a letter to Nichol Havens, wrote that "old Crank" died in the first weeks of April, 1825, and was buried at the "old mansion,"i.e., Sylvester Manor, attending were members of the Dering families.