Slaves in the Estate of Christopher J. Whaley, Charleston County, SC, 1859

The estate inventory of Christopher J. Whaley, taken 23 February 1859, lists the names of 67 enslaved ancestors.

You may view the document by clicking on the images attached to this page.

Names Indexed in the document were:

· Christopher J Whaley

· Jimmy - slave

· Flora - slave

· James - slave

· Infant - slave

· Big Jimmy - slave

· Kate - slave

· Little Andrew - slave

· Hager - slave

· Damon - slave

· Young Andrew - slave

· Sam - slave

· Little John - slave

· Sibbey - slave

· Cuffee - slave

· Hagar - slave

· Thomas - slave

· Magurth - slave

· Lucy - slave

· Daniel - slave

· Christmas - slave

· Alick - slave

· Lucy - slave

· Limul - slave

· Cook Andrew - slave

· Binah - slave

· John Bull - slave

· Phillis - slave

· Mary - slave

· Limus - slave

· Flora - slave

· Abram - slave

· Kit - slave

· Tenah - slave

· Josephine - slave

· Sam - slave

· Isaac - slave

· Infant - slave

· August - slave

· Maria - slave

· Mathias - slave

· Sandy - slave

· John - slave

· Molly - slave

· Phoeby - slave

· Jeneet - slave

· Judy - slave

· Susan - slave

· Joanna - slave

· Infant - slave

· Charlie - slave

· Taffy - slave

· Rachel - slave

· Joe - slave

· Amy - slave

· Louisa - slave

· Little Joe - slave

· Old Tom - slave

· Amy - slave

· Jack - slave

· Clarinda - slave

· James - slave

· Leah - slave

· Flora - slave

· Major - slave

· Lavinia - slave

· Bilbey - slave

· Tenah - slave

· B J Whaley

· George Buist

· P C Grimball

· J P Grimball

· Paul T Gervais

· Charles - slave

· Will - slave

· Alfred - slave

· Jeffry - slave

· Peter - slave

· Doll - slave

· Lavina - slave

· George - slave

· Hester - slave

· Amos - slave

· Nicholas - slave

· Richard - slave

· Amelia - slave

· Renty - slave

· Sukey - slave

· James - slave

· Beck - slave

· Columbia - slave

This document was digitized as part of a collaborative effort between Footnote, Lowcountry Africana, the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and FamilySearch, to digitize all surviving Charleston, SC Estate Inventories, 1732-1872 and Bills of Sale, 1773-1872, for a FREE Footnote collection.

When the project is complete, the names of more than 30,000 enslaved ancestors will be preserved in this FREE collection, for generations to come.

This remarkable collection contains the name of every slave ever listed in a surviving estate inventory for Charleston, SC from colonial times to Emancipation. Many of the post-Civil War inventories list the names of former slaves as well. You can volunteer to help index this FREE collection, to make the records searchable.

To learn more please CLICK HERE.

This document was indexed and made searchable by Alana Thevenet.