Virginia Emigrants to Liberia

Data

Individual Type
Age at Emigration	22.0 specified
Emigration Origin	Washington Co., Maryland
Emigration Destination	Liberia
Sex	male
Legal Status	Enslaved

Individuals

Hanson Dent

Recorded Names

Hanson Dent 1

Associated Individuals

child of James Dent (emigrant) 6

enslaved by Adam Weaver/Wever (emancipator, slaveholder) 1

Events

	Jefferson Co., Virginia (Origin) Washington Co., Maryland (Destination)	4	View Event Details	Enslaved
	Washington Co., Maryland (Origin) Liberia (Destination)	circa 1839 1	View Event Details
ship's passage	Cape Palmas (Destination) Baltimore, Maryland (Origin)	12 Dec 1839 to unknown 1 2 3	View Event Details

Citations

[1] "Brig Boxer, 12 Dec 1839, 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_scm13250-0348.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; Brig Boxer, sailed Dec 1839", 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/m3172-0855.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.; Brig Boxer, sailed Dec 1839"; digital image, Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/committecoloured00mary/page/26/mode/2up : accessed 6 Mar 2021).
[4] Adam Weaver, Washington Co., Maryland Deed Book UU: 706, signed 29 Nov 1839, recorded 30 Nov 1839.
[5] Adam Weaver, Washington Co., Maryland Deed Book UU: 714, signed 2 Dec 1839, recorded 2 Dec 1839.
[6] "Jim Dent." African Repository, Vol. 34, No. 8 (Aug 1853): 247, 248.
[7] F. Knight (Fredericktown, Maryland) to S. Wilkeson (n. p.), letter, 1 Jan 1839; "Incoming Correspondence, Domestic Letters"; American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress, digital image, Fold3.com, Microfilm Reel 31; (https://www.fold3.com/image/27404000: accessed 24 Aug 2022).