Quasheba of Covey
The 1817 slave register for John Tharp's Covey estate lists two women with a mother called Quasheba: Roundhill (b. 1794) and Eliza Atkinson aka Cretia (b. 1795). The mother of Eliza Atkinson/Cretia was named as A. Quasheba.
The register lists two women called Quasheba: one who was born in 1763 and died on the 1st of April 1818, and one who was born in 1777. Both were born in Jamaica, and the older Quasheba was described as Sambo, suggesting that one of her parents had some European ancestry, which indicates that she was at least the third generation of her family to have been enslaved.
Unfortunately, it isn't clear which of the two women was 'A. Quasheba', or what the 'A' stood for. It also isn't clear whether or not Roundhill and Eliza Atkinson/Cretia were sisters.
The family of Eliza Atkinson/Cretia is anything but straightforward. See 'Three or four women called Lucretia or Cretia on Covey'.
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