Phillis - PHIS10
Title
Phillis - PHIS10
Description
African descent
Contributor
Jackie Dinan
Status
Enslaved
Location or Address
Southold
Enslaver or Household
Estate of Benjamin Davis, by executors Gilbert Horton and James Tuthill.
Source/s
Southold Town Records Volume 3: 56-57.
Male or Female
Female
Birth Date
1788, calculated from her reported age (22) at the time of manumission.
Misc. Date
July 11, 1810 (date manumission certificate was approved by overseers of the poor and registered in the town record book). July 22, 1810 (date manumission was publicly executed and registered in town record book).
Owner or Household
The household of Benjamin Davis in Southold included four enslaved people in the 1790 Federal census and two enslaved people in the 1800 Federal census. His " Negro Limos" died January 18, 1794. See #1598 and #1664.
Collection
Citation
“Phillis - PHIS10,” Plain Sight Project, accessed November 10, 2024, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1669.