Isabella
Title
Isabella
Description
African descent
Contributor
Jackie Dinan
Male or Female
Female
Location or Address
Southold
Status
Enslaved
Enslaver or Household
Richard Youngs
Birth Date
1775, calculated from her reported age (30) at the time of her manumission.
Misc. Date
April 15, 1805 (date manumission certificate approved by overseers of the poor). April 23, 1805 (manumission certificate was recorded in town book). May 10, 1805 (manumission executed in presence of witnesses). July 4, 1805 (recorded in town record book).
Source/s
Southold Town Records Volume 3: 53-54.
Owner or Household
The 1790 Federal census reported one enslaved person in the household of Richard Yongs [Youngs].
Collection
Citation
“Isabella,” Plain Sight Project, accessed March 29, 2023, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1667.