Meshack Horn (abt. 1770)

Born about 1770 in Wayne, North Carolina

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Biography

Meshack Horn is a part of US Black heritage.

Meshack Horn was born about 1770 in Wayne County, North Carolina. Last name at birth is the surname of the Slave Holder, Henry Horn.

Henry Horn - 1790 Census, Wayne Co., NC: 5 Enslaved People.

Meshack is mentioned with other enslaved persons in Henry Horn's Will: 1798 Will:

"Item I give and bequeath to my Negroes, Will & Jude, their freedom & to them two Cows, two sows and piggs to their only use and benefit.

Item my will & desire respecting my other negroes (To wit) Isaac, Shadrach, Meshack, Duck or Patience, is that if at any time the laws of our Country will admit of their freedom, then they shall be free, but until then, I do hereby deorile (sp?) them in the care of my Executors as Gargians [guardian] over them, and my Executors hereafter named are hereby authorized to direct them in all cases with equal authority as if I had made an absolute legace of them, to them, yet not so as to sell them for gain.

Item I do constitute & appoint my sons Jacob, Thomas, and Jeremiah Horn executors of this my last Will & Testament..."

Slave Holder

Henry Horn Horn-452 - pre-1798, Wayne County, North Carolina

Jacob Horn-5947, Thomas Horn-770, and Jeremiah Horn Horn-3919 - 1798 - Wayne County, North Carolina

Sources

• 1790; Census Place: Wayne County, North Carolina

• North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998. Henry Horn; male; residence place: Wayne County, North Carolina; probate date: 1798; probate place: Wayne, North Carolina; inferred death year: 1798; inferred death place: North Carolina; Item Description: Original Wills, Etheridge, William - McKinnie, Richard.