Slaves at the Smithfield Plantation of Wm. Mason Smith, Colleton, SC, 1852

The estate inventory of William Mason Smith, made in January of 1852, lists the names of enslaved ancestors at Smithfield Plantation on the Combahee River in Colleton District, SC.

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Ancestors listed at Smithfield Plantation were:

· Moses - slave

· Minty - slave

· Mike - slave

· Eliza - slave

· Nanny - slave

· Primus - slave

· Nat - slave

· Bella - slave

· Tommy - slave

· O Hagar - slave

· Dorset - slave

· Hannah - slave

· Bess - slave

· Libby - slave

· Sarah - slave

· Affey - slave

· John - slave

· Hester - slave

· Infant - slave

· Renty - slave

· Susy - slave

· Cuffy - slave

· Daphne - slave

· Blake - slave

· Washington - slave

· Paul - slave

· Cain - slave

· Binky - slave

· Lavinia - slave

· Andrew - slave

· Phoebe - slave

· Emanuel - slave

· Polly - slave

· Pinckney - slave

· Susannah - slave

· Nelly - slave

· Harry - slave

· Anson - slave

· Josiah - slave

· Isaac - slave

· Rhina - slave

· Simon - slave

· Vincent - slave

· January - slave

· Pino - slave

· anson - slave

· Jeffy - slave

· Judy - slave

· Lucy - slave

· Frank - slave

· Philander - slave

· Dinah - slave

· Julia - slave

· Fanny - slave

· Betty - slave

· Jerry - slave

· Ishmael - slave

· Kate - slave

· Hannah - slave

· Robert - slave

· Witter - slave

· Cate - slave

· Billy - slave

· O Charles - slave

· Cook Renty - slave

· Caroline - slave

· Handy - slave

Please see the related page Slaves in the Estate of William Mason Smith, Beaufort, SC, 1852.

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.

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This document was indexed and made searchable by Khalisa Jacobs.