Peter Adams (abt. 1807 - aft. 1880)

Born about 1807 in Maryland, USA

Descendants

Died after 1880 after about age 73 in Louisiana

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Biography

Peter was born about 1807. He passed away after 1880.

He was married to Nelly Hawkins and had four children:

1. Cornelius (b.1822)
2. Henrietta (b.1825)
3. Cecilia (b.1829)
4. Rutha (b.1832)

8 Feb 1839 - "Governor Johnson has bought Peter Nelly's husband from Henry Young, & He is preparing a brig for carrying them & almost the rest at S. Inigoes W.M. & S. Thomas's servants."^[1]

4 May 1839 - "There remain in our farms only few old people, well provided for their life times. So old Isaac remained at W. Marsh; his daughter Nelly is gone with her husband Peter, whom Henry Young had sold for the purpose" ^[2]

15 Jun 1867 - list of destitutes receiving rations, Peter Adams, wife & 4 children^[3]

1870 Iberville, Ward 7 ^[4]

1878 Iberville, p. 421

1880 Iberville, Ward 9^[5]

Slave Owners

• Henry Young
• Henry Johnson Louisiana

Sources

1. ↑ Fr. Grivel to Fr. Lancaster, MPA, Box 66, Folder 2, 212 H 3a
2. ↑ (Fr. Grivel to Fr. Lancaster, MPA, Box 66, Folder 1, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Georgetown University, online in Georgetown Slavery Archive
3. ↑ Freedmen's Bureau, NARA, M1905, reel 10
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M87S-9BP : 29 May 2021), Peter Adam, 1870. family #30, with Fredk Ware (12) and Joseph Harrell (16)
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD6R-JHY : 29 December 2021), Peter Adames in household of Eugene Harrenton, Iberville, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm . E.D. 71, p. 177A, family #1, age 70, widowed, listed as grandfather, born MD, parents born MD, with John Heet (25), white, listed as son, born TX and parents born TX [Note: There is an error in the households on this part of the census]

See also:

• GU272 Descendants, 1785-2000. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019). https://trees.americanancestors.org/#!/tree/33164/people/7G7-9FPX-5CES Memory Project code: GMP-310

• See: GU272 Slaves for a list of others who were sold in 1838.