Nancy (Harrison) Queen (abt. 1816 - abt. 1847)

Born about 1816 in Maryland, USA [uncertain]

Ancestors

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Biography

Nancy was born about 1816. Baptized 4 Jun 1820 at White Marsh Farm in Arundel, Maryland, United States. She was the daughter of Ned Harrison and Rachel Unknown. She died between 1847 and 1851.

Nancy was one of 272 slaves in 1838 sold by Maryland's Jesuit priests to Southern plantations to raise money for Georgetown University. Georgetown Memory Project code: GMP-038.

Nancy, John, and their son, Patrick, were enumerated on a passenger list for the Katherine Jackson which arrived in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana on 6 Dec 1838.^[1]

Who Are GU272?

In 1838, the Maryland Jesuits sold more than 300 enslaved people to sugar plantations in southern Louisiana, in order to rescue Georgetown University from bankruptcy. In all, the Jesuits sold 314 men, women and children over a 5-year period stretching from 1838 to 1843. Today, these enslaved people are known collectively as the “GU272 Ancestors.” Genealogists have identified many of the original people who were sold, along with 8,425 of their descendants, living and dead.

Sources

1. ↑ "Louisiana, New Orleans, Slave Manifests of Coastwise Vessels, 1807-1860", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4W8J-BBW2 : 17 August 2020), John Queen, 1838.

• GU272 Descendants, 1785-2000. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2756/i/55296/2/73566470

• GU272 Descendants, 1785-2000. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2756/i/55296/3/73566471