Tabitha - TABI1

Title

Tabitha - TABI1

Description

African descent

Status

Enslaved

Sex

Female

Location or Address

Mattituck

Source/s

Charles Craven's History of Mattituck: 268 [transcription does not include Jessedoes name as the father].

1. Original record at Ancestry.com>U.S. Presbyterian Church Records 1701-1970>New York>Mattituck>Mattituck Presbyterian Church>Session, Register, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths>1764-1809>image 27/157.

Biographical Text

`                                  Negro servant to Captn Peter Halliock
"[Baptism] Tabitha Negro Child Daughter to Dorcas ^ by Jessedoes."

Baptism Date

June 6, 1773

Biographical Notes

Tabitha's baptism entry includes information added at a later time, causing confusion over her family assignment. The entry identified her mother as Dorcas, enslaved by Peter Halliock (inserted); her father as Jessedoes [probably Jesebaum].

Dorcas, enslaved by Peter Hallock bore children by her husband, Pomp, enslaved by John Corwin. See #470 and #471.

Jesebaum, enslaved by Widow Hutchinson, fathered children with a woman named Dorcas, but her enslaver was never identified by name in the records. See #1706.

More information is needed before assigning Tabitha to Pomp and Dorcas's family or Jesebaum and Dorcas's family.

Files

1773. BAP Tabitha.JPG

Collection

Citation

“Tabitha - TABI1,” Plain Sight Project, accessed December 22, 2024, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/475.