Slaves in the Estate of George A C Rivers, Wadmalaw Island, SC, 1840

The estate inventory of James A C Rivers, filed in 1840, lists the names of slaves at a plantation on Wadmalaw Island.

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Listed in the estate were:

· Cain - slave

· Hagar - slave

· Neptune - slave

· Venus - slave

· Isaac - slave

· Juddy - slave

· Affe - slave

· Charles - slave

· Jupiter - slave

· Joe - slave

· Nanny - slave

· Stephen - slave

· Jane - slave

· William - slave

· Prince - slave

· Molly - slave

· Pros - slave

· Phoebe - slave

· Jeremiah - slave

· Polly - slave

· Moll - slave

· Bob - slave

· Rose - slave

· James - slave

· Nanny - slave

· Isaac - slave

· Abraham - slave

· Robbin - slave

· Geoffry - slave

· Cumba - slave

· Sam - slave

· Will - slave

· Sarey - slave

· Dickey - slave

· Harriett - slave

·  Juno - slave

· Maryann - slave

· Sandy - slave

· Lindy - slave

· Old June - slave

· Doll - slave

· Elsy - slave

· Claressa - slave

· Rachel - slave

· Hercules - slave

· Samson - slave

· Betty - slave

· Anthony - slave

· Martha - slave

· Dorinda - slave

· Cely - slave

· Juddy - slave

· Old Hester - slave

· Ben - slave

· Hester - slave

· Maria - slave

· Old Betty - slave

· Peter - slave

· Tenah - slave

· Caesar - slave

· Nancy - slave

· June - slave

· Binah - slave

· Pierce - slave

· Ann - slave

· Jemmy - slave

· Monday - slave

· Sue - slave

· Ephraim - slave

· Sandy - slave

· Cretia - slave

· March - slave

· Cuffy - slave

· Charlotte - slave

· Thomas - slave

· Samson - slave

· Yorick - slave

· Jemmy - slave

· Binah - slave

· Peter - slave

· Cloe - slave

· Phillis - slave

· Rose - slave

· Hannah - slave

· March - slave

· Silvy - slave

· Cuffy - slave

· Sarah - slave

· Jacob - slave

· Betsy - slave

· Toney - slave

· James - slave

· Jenny - slave

· Monday - slave

· George - slave

· Isaac - slave

· Amos - slave

· Nature - slave

· Kesiah - slave

· Sam - slave

· Jennette - slave

· Caesar - slave

· Tom - slave

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Near the end of the list of inventory of slaves there is a family grouping: James, Jennie, Monday, George, Isaac and Amos. In his Freedmen Bank Document of 1869 James Roper (born 1795) of Wadmalaw lists his wife Jennie (1792) and his 4 sons: Monday (1811), George (1818), Isaac (1830) and Amos (approx. 1831). As you can see from the list, the sons' names are written in their correct order of birth. Further up on the list we also find the names of women who later would marry these sons: Polly, Phoebe and Mollie. The 1870 and 1880 Census show that family as a group living on Wadmalaw; however, James and Jennie and son Isaac live out their days in Beaufort. James works as a house servant for Judge W. E. Wording. The rest of the family end up buying farms on Wadmalaw in the 1880's, and many Roper descendants live still on Wadmalaw on that property. A Bill of Sale dated 1828 (on Fold3.com) shows that George A. C. Rivers purchased James, Jennie, Monday and George (Isaac and Amos were not yet born) from the estate of B. [Benjamin] Reynolds, who also had a plantation on Wadmalaw.

Monday and Polly's son, John Roper (born 1844), served in the US Colored Troops, regiment 34 during the Civil War, and his Freedmen Bank document also gives a wealth of information about the children of Monday and Polly. These two Freedmen Bank documents, together with these documents on Fold3.com, have thus given a wealth of information about the Roper family ancestry.

Thank you for this document,

Ronald Craig, Oslo, Norway

(Monday Roper is my great great grandfather)