1680-1759. Disposition of Slaves on the East End of Long Island
Source: Patricia and Edward Shillingburg (2003). The Disposition of Slaves on the East End of Long Island from 1680 to 1796.
http://www.shelter-island.org/disposition_slave.html
Date
1680
Location
Shelter Island
Owner
Nathaniel Sylvester
1684
Southold
John Budd
1684
1690
1692
1692
Southampton
Southold
Southold
Southold
Thomas Jessup
Benjamin Horton
John Swazey
John Tooker
Enslaved Africans and Natives
Six men; five women; six girls;
three boys. Tamero, his wife Oyou
and their four children; Black John
and his daughter Prescilla; Negro
J.0. and his wife Marie; Negro
Jenkin; Jaquero, his wife Hannah,
and their daughters; Tony, his wife
Nannie, and their four daughters;
and Japhet and his wife Semnie.
“negro woman Catherine and her
child”
Unnamed negro man
my man Joseph
Besse
Negro man called Richard or Dick
Disposition in Will
To his children
1693
1693
East Hampton
Smithtown
Stephen Hand
Richard Smith
Indian boy
Robin
1701
1702
Southampton
Southampton
“melatto boy George”
Will and Isabel
1706
Southold
James Herricke
Peregrine
Stanborough
John Conkling
To be “freed after four years”
“his time to be out next May day”
“shall be free & set at liberty at my decease”
“shall behave himself submissively faithfully and
diligently to my said dear wife Hannah, . . . said
wife shall at her death fully free discharge”
to his eldest son Stephen
To son Job “for ye term of twelve years ... and at ye
end of ye said twelve years, the said Robin shall be
freed.”
Given to his daughter Sarah “forever.”
Given to to his wife Sarah
Unknown number of slaves
To sons John and Henry.
To his wife Mary
Date
1706
Location
Southampton
Owner
Matthew Howell
Enslaved Africans and Natives
3 slaves
1707
1708
Southold
Southampton
John Paine
Daniel Sayre
Unknown number of Negro slaves
Jerry and Moll
1714
Southold
Thomas Youngs
2 negro slaves
1716
Southampton
Susanah Pierson
Two Indian girls and unknown
number of Negroes
1717
1719
1724
Southampton
Southampton
Southampton
Samuel Woodruff
John Cook
Anthony Ludlam
1725
Southampton
Joseph Fordham, Jr.
Negro slave John
negro woman Hitt
“Cesar,” “Cofe,” “Firns,” “Peter,”
“Stephen.”
3 negro children and a woman
1727
1728
1728
East Hampton
Shelter Island
Shelter Island
1729
1731
Shelter Island
Southold
John Mulford
John Knowling
Hannah
Knowling
Jonathan Hudson
James Reeve
1732
1732
1733
1733
1733
1736
Southold
East Hampton
Southampton
Southold
Southampton
Southold
Jabez Mapes
Thomas Mulford
Isaac Raynor
Joseph Youngs
Josiah Halsey
William Halliock
Two negro girls
“My negro slave Betty and my
negro boy Dick.”
“a negro man”
“2 Indian servants”
2 negro girls and a boy
“my negro man”
John
Unknown niumner of Negro men
1737
East Hampton
John Hedges
“negro girl”
“negro woman”
‘a negro boy and a negro girl”
‘a negro boy and a negro girl”
Disposition in Will
Reuben to his eldest son Nathan; Negro boy Felix to
his son Israel; Archibald to his son Ezekial.
To be sold.
To be sold to master of their choice and money
distributed among his sons.
One to his sister Martha Gardiner; one to his
nephew Joshua Youngs
Indians given to her daughters Hannah and Sarah;
Negroes sold as a group “for I would not have them
parted.”
To his wife Hester
To his wife Elizabeth
One to each of his children
Children sold to pay debts; woman given to his wife
Martha.
To his wife Hannah.
To his wife Hannah.
Girl to daughter Mary Merrow and boy to grandson
John Merrow
To daughters Hannah Spencer and Deborah Parker
One each to wife Deborah and son James
To his son Joseph
To his wife Mary
To his daughters Phebe and Hannah
To his son Josiah
“be free after the death of my wife.”
“If my wife does not sell my negro men, then my
sons Zebulon and Peter shall have them equally
between them, and they are to pay £4 in produce of
this town to my daughters Abigail and Margaret.”
To my wife Ruth
Date
1739
1740
1740
1741
1742
1743
1744
Location
East Hampton
Southold
Southold
Southold
Southampton
Southold
Southampton
Owner
Theophilus Howell
Sanuel Lore
Ananias Conkling
Samuel Beebee
Joseph Hildreth
Joseph Hull
Theophilus Pierson
Enslaved Africans and Natives
“a negro man and woman”
“negro boy”
“a negro man”
“negro boy Josiah”
“also my negro man”
Titus
Four adults and a child
1744
1746
Southampton
East Hampton
Daniel Foster
Matthias Burnet
“my negro girl Leah”
Indian girl and boy and negro boy
1746
1747
East Hampton
Southampton
Samuel Dayton
Silas Sayre
negro wench Hagar
“my negro slave”
1747
1748
1749
1750
Southampton
Southold
Southold
Southold
John Topping
Jeremiah Vaill
David Horton
Henry Tuthill
1750
Shelter Island
John Havens
negro boy
“negro girl Hagar”
“York”
“my negro Tim” and “a negro
woman and her child”
5 slaves
1750
1750
Southampton
Brookhaven
Abraham Howell
Samuel Thompson
1750
Southampton
Elisha Howell
“a negro man”
A Negro man, a negro girl and
negro children.
6 negroes
1751
1751
Brookhaven
East Hampton
Samuel Thompson
David Gardiner
“Sharper” and a “negro girl”
“the choice of my negro slaves”
Disposition in Will
To my wife Abigail
To his son Samuel
To his wife Hannah
To his daughter Patience Beebee
“to my dear wife Deborah”
Sold and money to be held for his three daughters
“a negro boy Peter” to his son Henry, “my negro
girl Peg” to his wife Sarah, and “my negro Hector
and my wench Dol and her child are to be sold.”
To my wife Lydia
Indian girl to his wife Elizabeth and Indian boy and
negro boy to grandson Burnet Miller.
“to my beloved wife Dorothy”
For use by his wife until his son Ezekial becomes of
age
To his wife
To his wife Elizabeth
To his son David
Tim to his son Henry, the woman and child to his
daughter Bethia Landon
The two oldest slaves to his wife and then to his
daughters Sarah and Elinor. One slave each to his
three other daughters.
To his wife Patience
“Sharper “ to his wife Hannah, the negro girl to one
daughter and the negro children to be sold.
“to my wife Damaris . . . 2 negroes,” to his son
Arthur “my negro man Adam,” to his son Elisha
“my negro man Pompey,” to his son Samuel, “a
negro boy,” and to my daughter, Susanah Halsey, “a
negro girl.”
To his wife Hannah and daughter Mary
“To my wife Mehetabel”
Date
1752
1752
1752
1752
1752
Location
Southampton
Southhold
Southampton
Southampton
Southold
Owner
Ephraim White
Josiah Howell
Job Halsey
Isaac Halsey Jr.
John Corey
Enslaved Africans and Natives
“a negro man”
“a negro woman”
“negro boy”
“a negro woman and a negro boy”
6 slaves
1752
Southold
John Budd
1755
Southold
Benjamin
L’Hommedieu
The bulk of the estate was sold and
money was distributed amongst his
children
4 negro slaves, a man, two women
and a girl
1755
Southold
Sarah Conkling
An unspecified number of people
were divided up amongst her
children or sold to benefit them.
1755
1756
1757
Southold
Bridgehampton
Brookhaven
Joshua Youngs
Rev.Ebenezer White
Nicoll Floyd
“a negro girl”
“Tower and negro woman Quaw”
“All my negro or Indian servants
on my farm” except 5 negro girls.
1758
1759
Southampton
Hashamomack
Jeremiah Culver
David Corey
1759
Southold
William Salmon
“negro wench Ruth”
“negro boy called Crack,” “a negro
boy and my silver hilted sword,”
and three negro girls
Negro boy was sold and negros
girls were given to his daughters
Disposition in Will
To my wife Sarah”
To his son Elias
To brother John Halsey
To his wife Phebe
“Juhah” to his wife Dorothy, “Shubaal” to his son
Abijah, “Violet” to his daughter Elizabeth Lewis, “a
negro girl” to his daughter Dorothy Dickerson, and
“Dorcas and Thankful” were to be sold.
“Except my negro boy, whom I leave to my
daughter Jemima.”
“A negro man and woman” to “my beloved wife
Martha” and the “negro girl Hagar” to his daughter
Mary L’Hommedie. The “other negro woman” to be
sold and money paid to his daughter Elizabeth
Bloom.
Gave her “negro man” to her son Joseph, a “negro
girl” to her daughter Elizabeth, one half of “all
stocks of cattle and negroes” to her son Thomas, and
all the rest of the “cattle and negroes” were to be
sold to benefit her children Henry, Joseph, Sarah,
Rachel, and Elizabeth.
To his wife Mary
To his sons Elnathan and Silvanus
Most of the “servants” were left to his eldest son
William (later a signer of the Declaration of
Independence). The 5 others were left to his
daughters.
“to my wife Damaris”
One each to his children Jasper, David, Anne,
Deborah and Sarah.
To his daughters Hannah and Abigail