Sylvia (Seawell) Hinton (1835)

Born 1835 in North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Biography

Sylvia (Seawell) Hinton is a part of US Black heritage.

Sylvia was born in 1853.

Sylvia's son Jerry Hinton was interviewed about 1937 in Oberlin, North Carolina about his life and his time as an enslaved person.

"My full name is Jerry Hinton. I wus borned in February, 1855."

"I wus born on a plantation in Wake County. My master wus Richard Seawell, an' Missus wus named Adelaide. His plantation wus on Neuse River."

"My mother, before marriage, wus named Silvia Seawell, an' father wus named Andrew Hinton. Atter they wus married mother went by the name of Hinton, my father's family name."

"Master had two boys ter go off to de war."

"Atter de surrender my mother moved over on de plantation where my father stayed. We stayed dere a long time, an' den we moved back to Richard Seawell's, old master's plantation, stayin' dere a long time. Den we moved to Jessie Taylor's place below Raleigh between Crabtree Creek an' Neuse River. When we lef' Taylor's we moved ter Banner Dam northeast of Raleigh near Boone's Pond. Mother an' father both died dere. Atter leaving dere I come here. I have lived in Oberlin eber since."

"I been married twice. I married Henrietta Nunn first, an' den Henritta Jones. I had three children by first marriage, an' none by second marriage. My wife is over seventy years old."

Interview: Jerry Hinton was interviewed in Oberlin, North Carolina by T. Pat Matthews as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Jerry Hinton - Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1; pages 427-432, images 432-437 of 465.

• "United States Census, 1880", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCXB-QLP : Sat Mar 09 00:06:34 UTC 2024), Entry for Andrew Hinton and Sylvia Hinton, 1880.

• "United States Census, 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS19-FYP : Wed Mar 06 14:45:16 UTC 2024), Entry for Andrew Henton and Sylva Henton, 1900.