Anna Madgigine (Jai) Kingsley (1793 - 1870)

Born 1793 in Senegal [uncertain]

Died 1870 at about age 77 in St. John's River, Florida

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Biography

Anna (Jai) Kingsley is Notable.

Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley was a West African woman from present-day Senegal, who was enslaved and sold in Cuba. She was purchased, as a wife, by plantation owner and slave trader Zephaniah Kingsley. After his death, she became a planter and slave owner in her own right, as a free Black woman in early 19th-century Florida.

Zephaniah Kingsley purchased her in Cuba at 13 years old. He manumitted her in 1811. She became his common-law wife and bore four children.

According to Florida historian Stetson Kennedy, Anna and her sons, John and George, and their families removed in 1839 to that part of Haiti that would become the Dominican Republic. Zephaniah's son Micanopy by Sarah Murphy went with them. Zephaniah's Wikipedia article states that this move occurred between 1835-1837 and that they settled on his plantation "Mayorasgo de Koka" in the Puerto Plata province of what is now the Dominican Republic.

Slaves

Names of Negroes recovered by Anna M. Kingsley from estate of Zephaniah Kingsley (p 573):^[1]

• Linda
• Qualla, Letitia, and Victorine
• Abdalla, Bellor(?), Amy
• Elsey
• Jim
• Stepney(?), son of Elsey born since appraisement of estate

Sources

1. ↑ Florida Probate Records, 1784-1990: "Florida Probate Records, 1784-1990"
   Catalog: Probate packets, approx. 1805-1906; index, 1805-1960 Probate packets, no. 1190-1204.
   Image path: Florida Probate Records, 1784-1990 > Duval > Probate packets 1805-1906 no 1190-1204 > image 573 of 1456
   FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-L9QR-M6CR (accessed 15 May 2022)
   • loose probate papers, Duval Co, FL,