Iredell County North Carolina Slave Owners

Date: 1788 to 1865
Location: Iredell, North Carolina, United States
Surnames/tags: Iredell_County Slave_Owners

Contents 1 Summary 1.1 1790 US Census Data 1.2 Slave Owners in 1850/1860 1.3 Plantations 1.4 Slaves 2 Sources

Summary

This is a space for information about slaves and slave owners in Iredell County, North Carolina. Research of US Federal Census data and other sources was used to obtain data about slave owners and slaves. An older History of Iredell county by Homer Keever^[1] contains some discussions of slavery and a recent review of that work by Hager^[2] provides new insight. Profiles for slave owners are linked to or created, as time permits. Many of these slave owners were listed in early Census records and also had estates that included named slaves.

1790 US Census Data

There were 762 Heads of Household in the 1790 US Federal Census for Iredell County, North Carolina.^[3] There were 229 Heads of Household (30 percent) that owned one or more slave. There were a total of 858 slaves in the Census. There was a total of 1,118 Free White Males 16 and over, a total of 1,217 Free White Males Under 16, a total of 2,239 Free White Females, and 3 Others.^[4]

The table below shows the entries for heads of household with six or more slaves for Iredell County, North Carolina. Heads of household are included in the numbers, whether they were a Free White Male or Free White Female. There were three persons that were listed as "All Others", which included Native Americans. The slave owner with the largest number of slaves, twenty-five, was Alexander Work. There were 13 Heads of Household that owned 10 or more slaves. Those slave owners that currently exist in WikiTree have links to their profile pages. The table is sortable on each column. We are currently adding and discovering new profiles with sources for these slave owners. Most also had wills and probate records, Revolutionary War records, and some of their wills mention names of slaves. The estate records, military recrods, and Census data is being added to each of these profiles.

Iredell County Slave Owners in 1790 from the Census and owning more than six slaves

Page	Owner's Name	No of Slaves	Free White Males 16 and over	Free White Males under 16	Free White Females	All Other Free Persons
388	Work, Alexander	25	1	0	2	0
387	Biars, Joseph	21	2	0	0	0
400	Martin, William	20	1	1	3	0
388	Osborne, Adlai	19	2	5	5	0
387	Ewing, Nathaniel	6	1	3	4	0
400	Caldwell, David	14	2	4	2	0
399	Sharpe, James	11	2	2	7	0
400	Young, Thomas	13	2	3	2	0
398	Nichols, Jacob	12	3	0	4	0
388	Hannah, Samuel	11	1	2	3	0
387	Brevard, Alexr	12	2	2	3	0
387	Cooke, John	11	3	1	8	0
387	Davidson, George	11	5	0	3	1
395	King, James	8	2	2	4	0
387	Brown, John	8	1	1	3	0
388	McConnell, John, Sr.	8	1	0	1	0
387	Brevard, Robert	8	2	0	4	0
399	Sharpe, Wm.	8	3	5	3	0
392	Guy, James	7	2	3	4	0
393	Purviance, James	7	2	3	7	0
389	Winslow, Moses	7	1	0	4	0
392	Harris, Samuel	7	1	2	3	0
387	Batey, Thomas	7	3	3	4	0
400	Marlow, Thos.	7	3	0	1	0
400	Baird, William	7	1	0	1	0
401	Allison, Adam	6	2	3	4	0
399	Huston, Christopher	6	2	3	4	0
388	McKnight, Hugh	6	4	2	5	0
387	Biars, James	6	2	3	4	1
390	Kerr, James	6	1	0	2	0
397	Dobbins, John	6	2	0	0	0
392	Nesbitt, John	6	2	4	5	0
388	Thompson, John	6	3	0	2	0
390	Knox, Mary	6	1	4	4	0
395	Cooke, Richard	6	1	0	1	0
398	King, Richard	6	1	0	2	0
394	Snodey, Samuel	6	2	0	1	0
397	Williams, Samuel	6	1	4	3	0
401	Allison, Thomas	6	2	2	2	0

Slave Owners in 1850/1860

UNDER CONSTRUCTION See Space:Iredell County North Carolina 1860 Slave Schedule. Dashes indicate the owner died before 1860.

• Allison, Andrew, 81/90 slaves
• Allison, Thomas A., 42/66 slaves
• Byers, Smith, 67/ slaves
• Chambers, Major Pinckney Brown, 89/76 slaves
• Campbell, Perciphul, Sr., 21/- slaves
• Davidson, George F., 68/ slaves
• Houston, Placebo, 26/- slaves
• Huggins, Alexander, 23/-
• Reid, Major Rufus, 84/- slaves

Plantations

• Farmville Plantation, owned by Major Pinckney Brown Chambers, near Elmwood^[5]
• Fort Dobbs Plantation, owned by Alexander Huggins, along Fourth Creek, just North of Statesville^[6]
• Hoover Plantation, owned by John Hoover, who was hung in 1840 for killing one of his slaves, near Troutman
• Johnson-Neel Plantation, near Mooresville, owned by John Johnson and William Cook^[7]
• Mount Mourne, owned by Rufus Reid, located in Mount Mourne^[8]
• Woodlawn, near Mount Mourne, built by Dr. George Washington Stinson^[9]
• Perciphull Campbell House, near Union Grove, built by Perciphull Campbell^[10]
• Daltonia in Houstonville^[11]

Slaves

In 1800 there were 140,000 African Americans living in North Carolina. By 1860 the number had risen to 361,522.^[12]

The North Carolina Slave Code of 1715 prevented slaves from gathering in groups for any reason, including religious worship, and required slaves to carry a ticket from their master whenever they left the plantation. Stricter laws were put into place in 1741 preventing slaves from raising their own livestock and from carrying guns without their master’s permission, even for hunting. In 1830, the state passed a statute making it a crime to teach a slave to read or write. By 1835, a state law was passed making it illegal for any black person — free or slave — to vote, attend school or preach in public.^[13]

Slave References:

• The Alexander County NCGenWeb has a listing of slave records for Iredell County.^[14]
• Troutman Slaves, John Sidney Troutman of Mooresville,

Link

• Scuffalong Slave Genealogy of North Carolina, Feb 16, 2015, Henderson

Sources

1. ↑ #Keever
2. ↑ #Hager
3. ↑ used [[#C1790Digitial since the FamilySearch #C1790 index is missing several pages.
4. ↑ #C1790
5. ↑ Wikipedia, accessed Aug 19, 2017
6. ↑ pp 118-119 #Keever
7. ↑ Wikipedia, accessed Aug 19, 2017
8. ↑ Wikipedia, accessed Aug 19, 2017
9. ↑ Wikipedia, accessed Aug 19, 2017
10. ↑ Wikipedia Wikipedia
11. ↑ Wikipedia:Daltonia
12. ↑ #Bailey
13. ↑ #Bailey
14. ↑ #SlaveRecs

• Iredell Piedmont County, by Homer M. Keever, with illustrations by Louise Gilbert and maps by Mild red Jenkins Miller, published for the Iredell County Bicentennial Commission by Brady Printing Company from type set by the Statesville Record and Landmark, copyright, November 1976, see Iredell, Piedmont County
• TOWARDS A NEW HISTORY: IREDELL COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, A Thesis by JAMIE LEANNE HAGER, Submitted to the Graduate School Appalachian State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS, May 2010 Department of History, Link
• Search Results for the 1790 US Census for Iredell County, North Carolina using Family.Search.org
• Digital Copy of the 1790 Census for Iredell County, Link, noted some errors but working on fixing them
• Slave Records for Iredell County, courtesy of the Alexander County NCGENWEB, accessed Aug 19, 2017
• Statesville Record and Landmark, Jan 29, 2014, article by Joel Reese. Iredell County native Phyllis Bailey presented a special program, "The History of Black Churches in Iredell County,” as part of the Iredell County Public Library Local History Department’s Black History Month celebration.
• Slave Sales Link