115 Slaves, Estate of Gilbert Geddes, Geddes Hall Plantation, SC, 1842

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The estate inventory of Gilbert C Geddes, filed in 1842, lists the names of enslaved ancestors on Johns Island and at Geddes Hall Plantation in St Andrews Parish, Charleston, SC. We invite you to contribute to this page.

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115 Slaves in the Estate of Gilbert Geddes, Johns Island and Geddes Hall Plantation, SC, 1842

| Charleston, SC

The estate inventory of Gilbert C Geddes, filed in 1842, lists the names of enslaved ancestors on Johns Island and at Geddes Hall Plantation in St Andrews Parish, Charleston, SC.

We invite you to contribute images, stories and information to this page.

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This record was indexed and made searchable by Vickie.

Slaves Listed on Johns Island, Estate of Gilbert C Geddes

| Johns Island, Charleston, SC

Enslaved ancestors listed on Johns Island were:

· Junius - slave

· Amy - slave

· Cymon - slave

· Molly - slave

· Sally - slave

· Sam - slave

· Jimmy - slave

· Juddy - slave

· Silvy - slave

· Nelly - slave

· Nancy - slave

· Jolly - slave

· Junius - slave

· Daphne - slave

· David - slave

· Harriet - slave

· James - slave

· Tom - slave

· John - slave

· Ned - slave

· Joan - slave

· Lucy - slave

· Dick - slave

· Nancy - slave

· George - slave

· John - slave

· Liddy - slave

· Kate - slave

· Tom - slave

· Molly - slave

· Israel - slave

· Frank - slave

· Taffy - slave

· Rintha - slave

· Hannah - slave

· Anthony - slave

· Roger - slave

· Scipio - slave

· Harriet - slave

· Oscar - slave

· infant - slave

· Toney - slave

· Jinny - slave

· Bristol - slave

· Ben - slave

· Ben - slave

· Peter - slave

· Dora - slave

· Nancy - slave

· Jim - slave

· Betsey - slave

Slaves Listed at Geddes Hall Plantation, St. Andrews Parish, Charleston, SC, 1842

| Geddes Hall Plantation, St Andrews Parish, Charleston, SC

Enslaved ancestors listed at Geddes Hall Plantation were:

· Cyrus - slave

· Clarissa - slave

· William - slave

· Venus - slave

· Tom - slave

· Joan - slave

· Amy - slave

· Peter - slave

· Sophy - slave

· Margaret - slave

· Martha - slave

· Rebecca - slave

· Rosenna - slave

· Maria - slave

· Cyrus - slave

· Cephronia - slave

· Sarah - slave

· Peter - slave

· Ancrum - slave

· Minda - slave

· Binah - slave

· Selina - slave

· Cardis - slave

· Juno - slave

· Isaac - slave

· Betty - slave

· Neptune - slave

· Sarah - slave

· Christmas - slave

· Friday - slave

· Jackson - slave

· Kate - slave

· Josey - slave

· Adam - slave

· Robert - slave

· Bess - slave

· Juddy - slave

· Dick - slave

· Cresty - slave

· Violet - slave

· Lucy - slave

· George - slave

· Isaac - slave

· infant - slave

· Abram - slave

· Anson - slave

· Junius - slave

· May - slave

· Dye - slave

· Lena - slave

· Dolfin - slave

· Robbin - slave

· Phillis - slave

· Alfred - slave

· Cordelia - slave

· Susan - slave

· Rose - slave

· Jolly - slave

· Jessy - slave

· Sam - slave

· Kate - slave

· Betty - slave

· Sampson - slave

· Tom - slave

About This Document: Volunteer to Index This Free Collection

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 and volunteer, please CLICK HERE.

This document was indexed and made searchable by Vickie Everhart. 

Comments

I live on the site of the old Geddes Hall Plantation. Four years ago I discovered a privy in my backyard containing artifacts dated 1790-1815. Does anyone have a map of the plantation from that time-frame?

11 May 2012