Two women called Cretia and one called Lucretia on Lansquinet

In the 1817 slave register for John Tharp's Lansquinet plantation, three children were listed with a mother called Cretia: Charlotte (b. 1805), Eleana (for Elena or Eleanor?) (b. 1811) and Mary (b. 1815). Later returns added Robert Simpson (28th of July 1817-1824),* Charles (b. 1822), Mary (1822-1823), and Alick (b. 1824), bringing the total to seven. In addition, when Juba was born in 1823, her mother was named as Lucretia.

Robert Simpson, Charles and Mary were all described as Sambo, indicating that they had a white ancestor in their grandparents' generation or earlier, but only on one side. Since there is no record of the death of Mary (b. 1815), it's likely that Mary (1822-1823) had a different mother.

There were three women on the estate who could have been the mother of these children. All three were described as creole (born in Jamaica) and Negro (of entirely African ancestry):

1. Cretia (b. 1789), who would have been between 16 and 35 when these children were born. She was the only one old enough to have been Charlotte's mother, but could also have been the mother of any of the other children listed above. 

Going down a generation, the 1832 return lists two children born on the estate to a mother called Charlotte Barnett: Alexander Williams (b. 1830) and Mary Morgan (b. 1831). The only Charlotte on the estate was Cretia's daughter, so Alexander Williams and Mary Morgan were the grandchildren of the older Cretia. 

 

2. Lucretia (b. 1794), whose mother was Rose (see  'Bessy Cook of Lansquinet'). Lucretia would have been eleven when Charlotte was born, but she could have given birth to Elena when she was 17, and to any or all of the younger children by the age of 30. However, she was listed in the 1817 register and in the record of Juba's birth with her full name of Lucretia, and it's possible that this form of her name was used consistently to avoid confusion with the two Cretias. This is why I have marked her with a question mark in the family tree below. 

3. Cretia (b. 1806), whose mother was called Nelly (see 'Several women called Nelly on Lansquinet'). She was too young to be the mother of the four older children, but could have given birth to Charles, Mary and Alick when she was 16-18.







* Robert's Simpson's birth was recorded in the 1820 return of 'increases' and 'decreases', which is the only one that gives dates.


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