Three women called Hannah on Lansquinet




The 1817 slave register for John Tharp's Lansquinet plantation records that Nancy Kerr or Carr was born in 1799 to a mother called Hannah and a white father. There were three women called Hannah who could have given birth to her, born in 1749, 1774 and 1786. The oldest would have been 50, the middle one 25 and the youngest only 13, so while they could all theoretically have been Nancy's mother, the Hannah born in 1774 is the most likely.

The youngest Hannah's mother was called Louisa, and she was listed in her own right as having been born in 1764.

The birth of Robert MacGoun on the 13th of February 1819 was recorded in the 1820 return of 'increases' and 'decreases', the only one that gives dates. His mother's name was given as M[ulatto] Nancy, and he was described as Quadroon.



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