Patience (Lowe) Hall (1805 - aft. 1863)

Born 13 Apr 1805 in Bahamas

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Patience (Lowe) Hall is part of a Bahamian family.

Many Halls of the Current descend from John Hall (b abt 1790) and Patience Lowe.

According to the Dolly Mae CD, Harbour Island, 2007 Edition, Patience Lowe was married to John Hall before 1831 in Current, Eleuthera, Bahamas but a marriage date is not cited and no marriage is recorded. No marriage record has been found for the couple yet the birth records for the children of Patience all list John Hall as the father.

The May 2, 1862 Will of John Hall of Current gives to Patience Lowe, spinster, one fourth of his estate. Given her status in the will, one may assume that the couple did not marry. The will further states that if Patience dies or marries, that one fourth reverts to John children. The other three quarters are left to his children: John Alexander Hall, Mathew Henry Hall, Robert Vincent Hall, Emily Sophia Hall Atwell (wife of Thomas Atwell), Mary Florence Hall and Adeline Elizabeth Hall. Executors are Mathew Lowe (Matthew J. Lowe, brother of Patience?)

John's will further states that if Patience dies or marries, that one fourth reverts to his children. The other three quarters are left to his children: John Alexander Hall, Mathew Henry Hall, Robert Vincent Hall, Emily Sophia Hall Atwell (wife of Thomas Atwell), Mary Florence Hall and Adeline Elizabeth Hall. Executors are Mathew Lowe (Matthew J. Lowe? brother of Patience?) and William Williamson Webb. The witnesses are: Joseph H. Algreen, Thomas E. Griffin, and Robert H. Weech.

The Colonial Slave Registers of 1822, 25, 28 and 1831 record the slave of Patience Lowe and provide insight into her familial relationships.

9 March 1825: In a record for slave Brum b abt 1794 of Eleuthera, Patience's brother-in law, John Miller Kelly swears to extreme ill health of her father John Lowe: http://interactive.ancestry.com/1129/CSUK1817_133726-00538?pid=3017291&backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3dBritishSlaves%26gss%3dangs-d%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3dbrum%26msrpn__ftp%3dBahamas%26msrpn%3d5030%26msrpn_PInfo%3d3-%257c0%257c1652393%257c0%257c5030%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c%26MSAV%3d1%26uidh%3dmi9%26pcat%3d36%26fh%3d3%26h%3d3017291%26recoff%3d5%26ml_rpos%3d4%26hovR%3d1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true#?imageId=CSUK1817_133726-00539

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On 1 January 1828 Brum (or Burn), a 34 year old male slave is jointly owned by Matthew J. Lowe, Patience Lowe, John Miller Kelly, Mary Curry and Sarah Curry. A note on the record states that Brum was "acquired of the Estate of John Lowe in 1826", revealing the date of John Lowe's death.

The inheritance of Brum suggests that the five parties are related. Sarah Lowe Curry is his daunter and John Miler Kelly is his son in law. Mary Lowe Curry is the the wife of John Curry. Martha LOWE b: 24 MAR 1807 is not mentioned, suggesting that she may have passed away before 1826. http://interactive.ancestry.com/1129/CSUK1817_133728-00213?pid=3029512&backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3dBritishSlaves%26gss%3dangs-d%26new%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3dbrum%26msrpn__ftp%3dBahamas%26msrpn%3d5030%26msrpn_PInfo%3d3-%257c0%257c1652393%257c0%257c5030%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c%26MSAV%3d1%26uidh%3dmi9%26rank%3d1%26pcat%3d36%26fh%3d4%26h%3d3029512%26recoff%3d5%26ml_rpos%3d5&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true

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In 1831, Brum, now 37 is still jointly owned by the same parties: http://interactive.ancestry.com/1129/csuk1817_133729-00000/?backlabel=ReturnBrowsing#?imageId=CSUK1817_133729-00497

A death record for Patience Lowe has not yet been found but her inclusion in the will of May 1862 suggests that she died after that date. Records for residents of the Current were lost and damaged during the Great Bahamas Hurricane of 1866 and record-keeping may have been interrupted for the following years. Patience is not memorialized in the Report of the Jubilee Fund of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society which was printed in 1868.Perhaps she was still alive then.

As for how James and Brum fared after emancipation, in July 1834, Bruin, a Creole, 40 yrs, 7 mo was a mariner, "at sea" and his (?opportunities?) or his adjustment to emancipation are rated "effective". http://interactive.ancestry.com/1129/CSUK1817_133730-00712?pid=3061690&backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3dBritishSlaves%26gss%3dangs-d%26new%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3dbrum%26msrpn__ftp%3dBahamas%26msrpn%3d5030%26msrpn_PInfo%3d3-%257c0%257c1652393%257c0%257c5030%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c%26MSAV%3d1%26uidh%3dmi9%26rank%3d1%26pcat%3d36%26fh%3d14%26h%3d3061690%26recoff%3d5%26ml_rpos%3d15&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true

xxxxxx In the Bah Civil Reg, Matthew J. Lowe, registrar forCurrent, Bluff, etc recorded the birth of Henrietta Lowe (#2) b 18 Feb 1854 and James Lowe (Jr) 23 February 1857 to a couple of African ancestry; James Lowe, field laborer and Frances (formerly Monroe?) Lowe. Since Eleuthera has a relatively small population and since the age is in the right range, perhaps this is the Jim/James found in the slave register. Although his parents had been slaves, James (jr) became a schoolteacher and died in W. Eleuthera on 22 Feb 1919.

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<(Deed Book G-7, pages 393-3). Source: Dolly Mae CD, Harbour Island, 2007 Edition. Source: Roots Webb, Parker Brady Tree / Slave record for one Brum, age 37, owned by 5 people; http://interactive.ancestry.com/1129/csuk1817_133729-00000/?backlabel=ReturnBrowsing#?imageId=CSUK1817_133729-00497 !825 Record for Brum: Class: T71 Source Information Ancestry.com. Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1813-1834 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Office of Registry of Colonial Slaves and Slave Compensation Commission: Records; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication T71); Records created and inherited by HM Treasury; The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.>