Peter - PETE18
Title
Peter - PETE18
Description
African descent
Contributor
Jackie Dinan
Status
Enslaved
Sex
Male
Location or Address
Southold
Enslaver or Household
Simeon Benjamin
Source/s
Southold Town Records Volume 3 :55-56.
Wayland Jefferson, Cutchogue: Southold's First Colony (1940): 156.
Wayland Jefferson, Cutchogue: Southold's First Colony (1940): 156.
Birth Date
1782, calculated from his reported age (27) at the time of manumission.
Marriage Date
June 27, 1812 (probable)
Misc. Date
June 14, 1809 (date manumission certificate was approved by the overseers of the poor). June 24, 1809 (manumission certificate recorded in town book).
Biographical Notes
He was likely the Peter Benjamin Jr. [Negro] who married Clarissa (#1862). He was likely the same Peter Benjamin who was head of a household of four free people of color in the 1810 Federal census. And a household of three free people of color in the 1820 Federal census.
Collection
Citation
“Peter - PETE18,” Plain Sight Project, accessed December 21, 2024, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1668.