Slaves of Peter Adams, North Carolina

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: Adams slavery

Introduction

This page's purpose is to record the people enslaved by Peter Adams (1802-1883) and attempt to connect them to their families.

Slaves

At the 1850 census^[1]:

• 25 M B
• 23 M B
• 24 F B
• 24 F B
• 13 F B
• 11 F B
• 10 F B
• 10 M B
• 7 F B
• 4 F B
• 3 F B
• 6 months M B
• 6 mos M B
• 8 F B
• 12 F B

In 1860, housed in 2 "slave houses"^[2]:

• F 35 B
• m 35 b
• m 32 b
• F 30 B
• F 22 B (box for "deaf & dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic" is checked)
• M 20 B
• F 18 B
• F 14 B
• F 13 B
• M 10 B
• M 10 B
• F 9 B
• F 7 B
• M 7 B
• M 7 B
• M 5 B
• M 3 B
• F 5 B
• F 2 B
• F 3 months B
• M 1 M (fugitive from the state box is marked "124")
• M 8 B

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 ", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HRW7-JW2M : 15 March 2022), Peter Adams in entry for MM9.1.1/MVCG-NP5:, 1850.
2. ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBS4-6YG?cc=3161105&wc=8BFB-GP8%3A1610492401%2C1610523901%2C1610309201 : 16 October 2019), North Carolina > Guilford County > North Division > image 25 of 28; citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).