Claritta of Good Hope
The 1817 slave register for John Tharp's Good Hope estate lists seven individuals whose mother was called Claretta: John Small* (b. 1783), Minerva (b. 1785), Hercules (b. 1787), Toney (b. 1795), Quaw (m) (b. 1797), Dixon (b. 1801) and Venus (b. 1805).
With her name spelt Claritta, their mother is recorded as being 48 years old (b. 1769) and born in Jamaica.
Going down a generation, Minerva was named as the mother of Catherine (b. 1808) in the 1817 register. The 1832 return from the estate records the birth of Clarissa (b. 1832), whose mother was Venus, and that same return records the death of Toney at the age of 36.
Possible children for Catherine are discussed in a post called 'Three women and a baby called Catherine on Good Hope'.
* Small could be a surname, a well-established epithet to distinguish him from other men of the same name, or an adjective applied on the spur of the moment as this register was compiled. It may not be used consistently in other documents.
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