Given the dates, it is clearly possible that the girls may have been fathered by James and/or John; it is also possible that the enslaved woman had a husband on one of the nearby farms. We will never know.
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Given the dates, it is clearly possible that the girls may have been fathered by James and/or John; it is also possible that the enslaved woman had a husband on one of the nearby farms. We will never know.
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In 1860 each household had an additional child that did not appear in the US census. The 1860 slave census recorded that each owned an enslaved girl, aged 9 and 10. The adult slave woman has disappeared. It is most likely that she had died, leaving two daughters.