Sylvia/Sylvie
Title
Sylvia/Sylvie
Description
African descent
Contributor
Jackie Dinan
Male or Female
Female
Location or Address
Southold
Status
Enslaved
Enslaver or Household
William Albertson; afterwards his heirs.
Birth Date
1798, calculated from her reported age (22 years) at the time of her manumission.
Death Date
1867 (oral tradition).
Misc. Date
April 22, 1820 (manumission certificate approved by Overseers of the Poor); May 3, 1820 (manumission certificate recorded in town book).
Biographical Notes
She was a daughter of Kedar (#1639) and Pegg (#1640). Information provided by J.W. Case cannot be corroborated with direct evidence. There was no Sylvia living with the other Derby siblings in Greenport in the 1860 Federal census. There was, however, a Sylvia Adams (black, 66 years), working as a servant in the John Ireland household in Greenport in 1860. The death of Sylvia Adams (70 years) at Greenport on July 18, 1864 was listed in the Cleveland Supplement (Long Island Traveler, February 27, 1879, page 3), but she was not identified as Black.
Source/s
For manumission documents see URL southoldtownny.gov=>Weblink/Laserfiche=>Town Clerk>Town Record Books>Liber E 1818-1887> image 158/175.
"Sylvia" paragraph excerpt from J.W. Case, “Kedar and his Family” in Long Island Traveler, January 23, 1879.
"Sylvia" paragraph excerpt from J.W. Case, “Kedar and his Family” in Long Island Traveler, January 23, 1879.
Files
Collection
Citation
“Sylvia/Sylvie,” Plain Sight Project, accessed December 1, 2023, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1646.