Sylvia/Sylvie

Sylvia/Sylvie

African descent

Jackie Dinan

Female

Southold

Enslaved

William Albertson; afterwards his heirs.

1798, calculated from her reported age (22 years) at the time of her manumission.

1867 (oral tradition).

April 22, 1820 (manumission certificate approved by Overseers of the Poor); May 3, 1820 (manumission certificate recorded in town book).

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.

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.