Virginia Emigrants to Liberia

Data

Individual Type
Age at Emigration	13.0 specified
Emigration Origin	Albemarle Co., Virginia
Emigration Destination	Liberia
Sex	male
Legal Status	Enslaved

Individuals

Willis Paxton

Recorded Names

Willis Paxton 1 2

Associated Individuals

child of Fanny Paxton (emigrant) 4

enslaved by Rev. John D. Paxton (slaveholder) 3 4

Events

	Albemarle Co., Virginia (Origin) Liberia (Destination)	circa 1826 1 3 4	View Event Details	Enslaved
ship's passage	Norfolk, Norfolk Co., Virginia (Origin)	22 Mar 1826 to unknown 1 3	View Event Details	Enslaved

Citations

[1] "Ship Indian Chief, 22 Mar 1826", Subject File, 1792-1964, American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress; digital image, Fold3.com. Microfilm Reel 314 (https://www.fold3.com/image/46670241 : accessed 27 Jan 2021).
[2] 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).
[3] "Departure of the Ship Indian Chief. [From the Norfolk Beacon]" African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 1, No. 12 (Feb 1826): 369.
[4] "Interesting Facts" African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 1, No. 10 (Dec 1825): 318.