Douglas And Clemons Slave Data of SC
| WHY SOUTH CAROLINA AND NOT NORTH CAROLINA |
I am taking my Douglas and Clemons research in the direction of South
Carolina for more than one reason. Here are just a few of those reasons.
1. I cannot find any Douglas or Clemons slave owners in Anson County in 1850 and
1860. There were quite a few Douglas slave owners found in South Carolina in the
bordering counties just south of Anson County NC.
2. I cannot find Henderson
or any member of his immediate family living in any County of NC in 1870 except
for one of their sons who was listed as being born in SC and in 1870 was found
living in a part Richmond County NC that is now a part of Scotland County NC.
3. I found a family in 1870 Chesterfield South Carolina that corresponds
almost exactly to Henderson's 1880 Anson County North Carolina family. One difference
was that initials were used in the Chesterfield information of 1870. All of Henderson's
family members that were living with him in 1880 were exactly and properly initialled
in this family of 1870 Chesterfield. Even the ages were an exact match for a family
that could not read, write or count. Another difference was that the 1870 mother
and father's parents were listed as being born in South Carolina and the parents
of the 1880 family were listed as being born in North Carolina. All through my
research I have seen were parents were listed as being born in different states.
It made me think that most exslaves didn't really know where there parents were
born. But, since Chesterfield County South Carolina borders Anson County North
Carolina is it possible that some areas of Chesterfield became Anson or vica versa
because the boundary was not clear? What if the case is like I mentioned on the
home page (statements from the slave narratives below). Henderson and Mourning
being owned by two different slave owners. Henderson being owned by one of the
many Douglas slave owners in Chesterfield County SC and Mourning being owned by
the neighboring Meachum slave owners of Anson County NC. After slavery was ended
Henderson would have surely united his family in a place where he was already
established. Just a thought!
4. I have came across unconfirmed information
that associates James Clemons with the areas in and around Darlington South Carolina.
5. My great grandmother Sarah Ann Clemons Douglas owned land in some part
of South Carolina at the time of her death.
My progress back
to yesteryear has been stuck here for the past year. Maybe some of this past can
be unraveled when I get the time to visit the South Carolina state archives and
South Carolina County courthouses and/or public libraries. |
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THE BUYING AND SELLING OF AFRICANS AND AFRIKAN AMERICANS | |
Click
here for a link that gives much information on how the African and Afrikan
American slaves were bought and sold in SC. It's truly amazing how in America
a so called righteous group of people could see no wrong in treating fellow humans
as their slave, personal property or inferior. |
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SOME DOUGLAS AND CLEMENTS SLAVE PURCHASES AND SALES OF SC | |
This is some of the slave purchases and sales made by some of the
Douglas and Clements/Clemons slave owners of Chesterfield, Chester, Darlington
and other areas of South Carolina. This information was found on the website of
the SC Dept. of Archives and History. Some of these sales and purchases were made
by free people of color (Afrikan American). I am in the process of including some
of the Douglas and Clemons slaveholders and their families from Chesterfield and
Darlington counties SC. You will be surprised to see how our ancestors named their
children after these slave masters and their families. |
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THE SLAVE HUSTLE IS ON - BUSINESS AS USUAL | Record: 202
of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 003P Page - 00495 Item - 00 Date: 1801/10/13
Description: DOUGLASS, NATHANIEL TO GEORGE POWERS, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED
PATIENCE.
Record: 203 of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 003N
Page - 00266 Item - 00 Date: 1801/12/23 Description: DOUGLASS, NATHANIEL TO THOMAS
BAKER, BILL OF SALE FOR A FEMALE SLAVE NAMED DORCAS.
Record: 210 of
272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 003T Page - 00559 Item - 00 Date: 1805/03/29
Description: DOUGLAS, JOHN TO ROBERT VERREE, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED EDY
AND HER SON NAMED GEORGE.
Record: 287 of 379 records Series: S213003
Volume - 004F Page - 00449 Item - 00 Date: 1813/10/15 Description: CHANLATTE,
HARRIETTE CAMEAN TO ADEL POINTIS AND LAFINE CLEMENT, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE
NAMED CHARLOTTE, ABOUT 18 OR 19 YEARS OF AGE.
Record: 227 of 272 records
Series: S213003 Volume - 004I Page - 00400 Item - 00 Date: 1815/05/31 Description:
DOUGLAS, JAMES TO JOHN WHITING, BILL OF SALE FOR A MALE SLAVE NAMED SANDY.
Record: 229 of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 004I Page - 00432 Item
- 00 Date: 1815/07/05 Description: DOUGLAS, JAMES, ATTY. FOR PATRICK MCDERMOT,
ADMOR. OF THOMAS LYNCH TO SAMUEL CROMWELL, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED POLLIDORE.
Record: 230 of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 004I Page - 00435
Item - 00 Date: 1815/07/08 Description: KIRKPATRICK AND DOUGLAS TO DUNCAN LEITCH,
BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED JACK, ABOUT 29 YEARS OLD.
Record: 231
of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 004I Page - 00438 Item - 00 Date: 1815/07/10
Description: WRAINCH, JOHN TO CAMPBELL DOUGLAS, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED
JACK, ABOUT 18 YEARS OLD.
Record: 235 of 272 records Series: S213003
Volume - 004P Page - 00051 Item - 00 Date: 1818/02/11 Description: CRAWFORD, JAMES
TO CAMPBELL DOUGLAS, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED ANTHONY.
Record:
310 of 379 records Series: S213003 Volume - 004S Page - 00025 Item - 00 Date:
1819/03/31 Description: CLEMENT, S., ADMIX. OF JOHN CLEMENT TO HELENA MARY ROBINSON,
BILL OF SALE FOR THE SLAVES HANNAH AND BETSEY.
Record: 311 of 379
records Series: S213003 Volume - 004S Page - 00189 Item - 00 Date: 1819/12/11
Description: MCCLURE, JOHN, ATTY. FOR C. MCCLURE TO FRANCIS G. DELIESSELINE AND
JOHN R. MATTHEWES, EXORS. OF SUSANNA WILKINSON, IN TRUST FOR THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM
CLEMENT,BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED ALLAN.
Record: 317 of 379 records
Series: S213003 Volume - 004S Page - 00445 Item - 00 Date: 1820/11/03 Description:
CLEMENT, SARAH, ADMIX., AND WILLIAM CLEMENT, ADMOR. OF JOHN CLEMENT TO JOSEPH
YATES, BILL OF SALE FOR 2 SLAVES NAMED TOM AND SYLVIA.
Record: 240
of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 004X Page - 00272 Item - 00 Date: 1823/03/07
Description: SILLIMAN, JOHN H. TO CAMPBELL DOUGLASS, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE
NAMED NANCY AND HER SON WILLIAM, WARRANTED SOUND.
Record: 242 of 272
records Series: S213003 Volume - 005A Page - 00009 Item - 00 Date: 1823/09/19
Description: DOUGLAS, CAMPBELL, ROBERT WALKER AND HENRY SHIELDS, EXORS. OF ARCHIBALD
MCVICCAR TO JOHN AND THOMAS GATES, BILL OF SALE FOR 2 SLAVES NAMED GEORGE AND
ISAAC, COMMONLY CALLED, BROWN ISAAC.
Record: 245 of 272 records Series:
S213003 Volume - 005A Page - 00310 Item - 00 Date: 1825/01/18 Description: HUTCHINSON,
ELIZABETH L. TO MARGARET DOUGLAS, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED LUCRETIA.
Record: 246 of 272 records Series: S126061 Year - 1824 Item - 03479 ignore
- 00 Date: 1825/05/06 Description: DOUGLASS, SAMUEL, TAX RETURN FOR 8 SLAVES IN
WILLIAMSBURG DISTRICT.
Record: 327 of 379 records Series: S126061
Year - 1824 Item - 04215 ignore - Date: 1825/05/03 Description: CLEMENT, MRS.
SARAH, TAX RETURN FOR 1395 ACRES AND 57 SLAVES IN ST. PAULS PARISH.
Record: 328 of 379 records Series: S126061 Year - 1824 Item - 04216 ignore - Date:
1825/05/03 Description: CLEMENT, EDWARD W., TAX RETURN FOR 9 SLAVES IN ST. PAULS
PARISH.
Record: 331 of 379 records Series: S213003 Volume - 005D Page
- 00112 Item - 00 Date: 1826/03/09 Description: ARMSTRONG, H. B., H. H. SIMONS
AND MARY DRAYTON ARMSTRONG TO SARAH CLEMENT, BILL OF SALE FOR 3 SLAVES NAMED KATEY,
BETTY AND MACHANDRA.
Record: 249 of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume
- 005G Page - 00123 Item - 00 Date: 1827/12/07 Description: PAUL, JOHN AND CAMPBELL
DOUGLAS, EXORS. OF JOHN MCKENSIE TO GEORGE PLATT, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED
DICK.
Record: 252 of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 005K Page
- 00016 Item - 00 Date: 1829/07/03 Description: HUME, DOCTOR WILLIAM TO MARIA
M. DOUGLAS, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED LUCY AND HER CHILDREN NAMED GEORGE
AND AN INFANT.
Record: 255 of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume -
005K Page - 00445 Item - 00 Date: 1831/06/08 Description: DOUGLAS, CAMPBELL TO
WILLIAM LLOYD, TRUSTEE FOR THE CHILDREN OF THOMAS FOLKER, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE
NAMED LUCY AND HER CHILDREN GEORGE AND ISABELLA, WARRANTED SOUND.
Record: 256 of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 005O Page - 00126 Item - 00
Date: 1832/06/25 Description: KITTLEBAND, JOHN B. TO MARIA M. DOUGLASS, BILL OF
SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED RILLEY, ABOUT 12 YEARS OLD, WARRANTED SOUND.
Record: 257 of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 005O Page - 00204 Item - 00
Date: 1833/01/01 Description: DOUGLASS, C., ADMOR. OF HENRY P. DENOON TO SIBBY
GORDON, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED SUSAN.
Record: 258 of 272 records
Series: S213003 Volume - 005O Page - 00790 Item - 00 Date: 1835/11/21 Description:
DOUGLAS, CAMPBELL, ADMOR. OF HENRY P. DENOON TO JOHN M. HOPKINS, BILL OF SALE
FOR A SLAVE NAMED PHILLIS AND HER SON NAMED DAVID.
Record: 259 of
272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 005T Page - 00033 Item - 00 Date: 1836/10/08
Description: MAGWOOD, CHARLES A., EXOR. OF SIMON MAGWOOD TO WILLIAM MCKINLAY AND
GEORGE MCKINLAY, FREE BLACKS, BILL OF SALE FOR THE SLAVE JOHN DOUGLASS, HIS WIFE,
SUSAN, AND THEIR CHILDREN ROBERT, MARY, JOHN, SUSAN, ALLICE, REBECCA, ANN AND
EDWARD.
Record: 347 of 379 records Series: S213003 Volume - 005T Page
- 00224 Item - 00 Date: 1837/08/16 Description: CLEMENT, EDWARD W. TO THOMAS HOOD,
BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED RYNAH.
Record: 86 of 305 records Series:
S165015 Year - 1837 Item - 00013 ignore - 00 Date: 1837/11 Description: DOUGLAS,
MARY, FREE BLACK, PETITION, AND SUPPORTING PAPER, FOR COMPENSATION FOR HER SLAVE,
WILLIAM IRVINE, WHO WAS EXECUTED FOR STABBING JOHN CRAMER, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF
THE TRIAL. (6 PAGES)
Record: 283 of 305 records Series: S165015 Year
- ND00 Item - 04298 ignore - 00 Date: N.D. Description: CITIZENS OF NORTH CAROLINA,
PETITION ASKING THE S.C. LEGISLATURE TO PASS A RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING THE GOVERNOR
PARDON RICHARD BOGGINS, IMPRISONED FOR WHIPPING TO DEATH AARON DOUGLAS WITH THE
HELP OF THE SHERIFF OF ORANGEBURG DISTRICT. (4 PAGES)
Record: 260
of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 005T Page - 00244 Item - 00 Date: 1837/11/15
Description: DOUGLAS, CAMPBELL AND SIMON MORRISON, EXORS. OF G. S. MCLEAN TO LORA
PERRY, A FREE BLACK, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED ISAAC.
Record:
263 of 272 records Series: S213003 Volume - 005W Page - 00498 Item - 00 Date:
1842/06/03 Description: DOUGLAS, CAMPBELL TO MRS. H. M. PELZER, BILL OF SALE FOR
A SLAVE NAMED RILLA, WARRANTED SOUND AND HEALTHY.
Record: 352 of 379
records Series: S213050 Volume - 006B Page - 00099 ignore - 00 Date: 1846/08/10
Description: CLEMENT, E. W. TO SIMON MAGWOOD, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED GRACE.
Record: 266 of 272 records Series: S213050 Volume - 006B Page - 00435
ignore - 00 Date: 1848/08/17 Description: MAIN, A. R. TO MARGARET DOUGLAS, BILL
OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED LONDON.
Record: 267 of 272 records Series:
S213050 Volume - 006B Page - 00436 ignore - 00 Date: 1848/08/17 Description: DOUGLAS,
MARGARET TO FRANCIS W. GRANT, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED LONDON.
Record: 268 of 272 records Series: S213050 Volume - 006B Page - 00526 ignore -
00 Date: 1849/03 Description: GRANT, FRANCIS W. TO MARGARET DOUGLASS, A FREE BLACK,
BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED LONDON.
Record: 269 of 272 records
Series: S213050 Volume - 006C Page - 00453 ignore - 00 Date: 1852/03/31 Description:
DOUGLAS, JOHN, EXOR. OF SUSAN WILLIAMS TO B. GERATY, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE
NAMED JIM.
On this
site Scott Wild has abstracted a great amount of Slave information from some deed
books of Darlington County SC. I was quite amazed at how much a slave owner used
his slaves to secure a loan, cover a debt or even bond himself out of jail. It
seems so strange how the slaves were so very valuable to these people yet some
being treated worse than the masters family dog.
Here
is a link with information about some manumitted slaves from SC. And here
is a link that shows the bill of sales for the skilled slaves that were in SC
from 1774-1862. Information in both links are from the SC Department of Archives
and History. Here
is a site that has information on the slaveowning free blacks of Charleston SC,
another
with narratives and other information on slavery and finally this
link that tells of a few of the SC slave laws and a lot of what the enslaved
Afrikan American woman and her family were up against in their daily bid for survival,
sanctity and inner peace. |
| SLAVE LIFE AS TOLD BY THE EX-SLAVE HIMSELF |
| Below are three links that tells what people who were actually
slaves has to tell about their lives as being slaves. From reading this and other
information on slavery and to imagine the trials, tribulations and persecutions
the African American slave or any slave had to endure is a nightmare. Worse than
Elm street could ever be! |
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