Two women called Marina on Covey
The 1817 slave register for John Tharp's Covey estate includes six individuals with a mother called Marina: Yanthes (b. 1789), Dido (1795-1821), Ben Young aka Francis (b. 1800), who was described as Mulatto, Maria (b. 1809), Charity (b. 1812) and Louisa (b. 1816). The 1823 return adds George Spencer (b. 1822).
There were two women called Marina on the estate who were old enough to have been the mother of any of these children. I have drawn up separate family trees showing relationships that were possible marked with a question mark, and those that are certain without.
The family tree of Marina Little (b. 1773) is discussed in a post called 'Three women called Sally on Covey'). Marina Little was between the ages of 16 and 49 when these children were born and could, in theory, have given birth to any or all of them. Charity's mother was named specifically as 'Marina (little)'.
Because Marina Big was younger than Marina Little, the epithets presumably indicate that the older Marina was physically smaller.
The mother of Sarah Rodney (b. 1831) was named as Maria Shackleton. No woman of that name was included in the 1817 slave register, but there were two women called Maria. The other Maria (b. 1795) could have been Sarah Rodney's mother (see 'Fanny of Covey'), which is why the relationship is marked with a question mark in the family tree.
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