Virginia Emigrants to Liberia

Data

Individual Type
Age at Emigration	10.0 specified
Emigration Origin	Frederick Co., Maryland
Emigration Destination	Liberia
Sex	male
Legal Status	Enslaved

Individuals

Lewis Balch Davenport

Recorded Names

Lewis B. Davenport 3
Lewis Balch Davenport 5

Recorded Ages

9

Associated Individuals

child of Frances Davenport (emigrant) 5

enslaved by Adam Weaver/Wever (emancipator, slaveholder) 5

Events

	Jefferson Co., Virginia (primary location)	6	View Event Details	Enslaved
	Frederick Co., Maryland (Origin) Liberia (Destination)	circa 1836 3	View Event Details
ship's passage	Cape Palmas (Destination) Baltimore, Maryland (Origin)	9 Jul 1836 to unknown 1 2 3 4	View Event Details

Citations

[1] "Schooner Financier, 9 Jul 1836, Baltimore, Maryland", Manumissions and Emigrants, Emigration, Record of Emigrants, Maryland State Colonization Society Papers, Maryland Historical Society; digital image, Maryland State Archives. Microfilm Reel 27 (http://mdhistory.msa.maryland.gov/msa_sc5977/scm013250/html/msa_sc5977_scm13250-0344.html : accessed 30 Mar 2021).
[2] Maryland House of Delegates, "Document F. Report of the Colonization Society, in Answer to an Order of the House of Delegates of the Second January, Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Four;: Document A, Emigrants sent from Baltimore by the Maryland Colonization Society; Schooner Financier, sailed Jul 1836", Library of Congress, Records of the States of the United States of America: A Microfilm Compilation; digital image, Maryland State Archives. Microfilm Reel MSA SC M 3172 (https://teaching.msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/003172/html/m3172-0849.html : accessed 6 Mar 2021).
[3] Maryland House of Delegates, "Document 4. Report of the Committee on the Coloured Population, of Answers of the President of the Colonization Society of Maryland, in Obedience to the Order Adopted by the House of Delegates, on the 4th January, 1841.: Document A, Referred to in the Foregoing Report. Emigrants sent from Baltimore by the Maryland State Colonization Society.; Schooner Financier, sailed Jul 1836"; digital image, Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/committecoloured00mary/page/20/mode/2up : accessed 6 Mar 2021).
[4] "The Maryland State Colonization Society." African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Apr 1837): 117.
[5] Adam Weaver to Davenport family, Frederick Co., Maryland Deed Book 3: 70-71, signed 24 Jun 1836, recorded 1 Jul 1836.
[6] Casper W. Wever [Weaver] (Frederick, Maryland) to R. R. Gurley (Washington City), letter, 19 Nov 1835; "Incoming Correspondence, Domestic Letters"; American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress, digital image, Fold3.com, Microfilm Reel 24; (https://www.fold3.com/image/27456706: accessed 15 Dec 2021).
[7] "Mr. Adam Wever's Letter to His Servants." Maryland Colonization Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Sep 1845): 35.