Sylvia/Sylvie - SYLV1
Title
Sylvia/Sylvie - SYLV1
Description
African descent
Contributor
Jackie Dinan
Status
Enslaved
Location or Address
Southold
Enslaver or Household
William Albertson; afterwards his heirs.
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.
Male or Female
Female
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.
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Citation
“Sylvia/Sylvie - SYLV1,” Plain Sight Project, accessed December 13, 2024, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1646.