Madam of Good Hope
Six daughters are listed in the slave lists for John Tharp's Good Hope estate with a mother called Madam. They were: Nelly (b. 1802), Grace (b. 1807), Hagar (1810-1830), Diana (b. 1813), Rebecca (b. 11th of May 1818)* and Jenny (b. 1821).
Madam was listed in the 1817 register as having been born in Africa in about 1778. Even allowing for imprecise age estimates, this makes her an unlikely mother for another individual whose mother was named as Madam: Napier (b. 1778). It is possible that there had been another woman called Madam on the estate who had died before the first list was drawn up in 1817. It may also be possible that Napier was the father of some or all of these children and that Madam is named not as his mother but as the matriarch of the family he belonged to.
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