Bladen County Slave Information: Joel Jr and Daniel Johnson
Their early family history takes them across many counties
of NC and beyond. They have surely left their mark here in the
Colly and Turnbull communities of Bladen County. Click
here
to see some of their Johnson family lineage from the early 1700's
to the early 1900's.
The Johnson brothers were both land barons and slave masters of
Bladen County NC. Their lands included many acres in the Colly
and Turnbull townships of Bladen County. Daniel and Joel Jr."s
son Owen, after his father's death were very generous about giving
vast amounts of land to the African Americans that were once their
slaves.
I am not sure when or how my ggg grandmother Phyllis
Herring and her immediate family became associated with Joel Johnson
Jr's family but I do know that they were not slaves of his in
October of 1856-58. Joel Jr. had a will made in 1856 and amended
it in 1858 and the slaves mentioned in it are as follows.
To son Owen Johnson, one Negro boy named Elliot? who
was 18 years old.
To son R W Johnson, one Negro man named Joe who was
25 years old.
To son Daniel Johnson, one Negro boy named Peter who
was 20 years old.
To son Kinion Johnson, one Negro boy named Anthony
who was 20 years old.
To son Evan Johnson, one Negro boy named Isaac who
was 20 years old.
To daughter Molcy, two Negro girls, Dilly who was
26 years old and Racheal who was 8 years old.
To daughter Mary J, one Negro woman named Cherry who
was 20 years old and her two children Ester and Sarah plus one
other Negro girl named Martha or Mareta who was 8 years old.
To daughter Elizabeth, two Negro girls, one named
Telah who was 14 years old and the other named Julia who was 6
years old.
To daughter Helen, two Negro girls who were both 9
years old and named Arey? and Chancey?
To grandsons Robert and Joel P Harvey, one Negro boy
named Josiah who was 7 years old.
To grand daughter Mary Elizabeth Harvey, one Negro
girl named Mary who was 2 years old
In 1858 he also stated that Owen was to receive a
Negro boy named Irvin.
