Hepzibah
Title
Hepzibah
Description
Negro slave
Contributor
Jackie Dinan
Male or Female
Female
Location or Address
Southold
Enslaver or Household
Captain Benjamin Horton
Baptism Date
December 19, 1793
Misc. Date
May 26, 1814 (manumission certificate approved by overseers of the poor). May 27, 1814 (manumission certificate recorded in town record book by town clerk).
Biographical Notes
Because Hepzibah was an uncommon name, it's probable that she was enslaved as a child by Captain Benjamin Horton and manumitted by his heir Benjamin Horton Jr. (or that Captain Benjamin Horton and Benjamin Horton Jr. were the same person).
Source/s
Original Southold parish register accessed at Ancestry.com under the collection entitled, U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701–1970>New York>Southold>First Presbyterian Church>Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths>1749-1832>image 119/340.
Southold Town Records Volume 3: 92.
Southold Town Records Volume 3: 92.
Files
Collection
Citation
“Hepzibah,” Plain Sight Project, accessed March 25, 2023, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1680.