Virginia Emigrants to Liberia

Data

Individual Type
Age at Emigration	55.0 specified
Emigration Origin	Albemarle Co., Virginia
Emigration Destination	Liberia
Sex	male
Legal Status	Enslaved

Individuals

Jacob Twine

Recorded Names

Jacob Twine 2 8 10

Associated Individuals

enslaved by Mrs. F. W. Meriweather (slaveholder) 2 8

facilitated by James H. Minor (facilitator) 10

Events

	Albemarle Co., Virginia (Origin) Liberia (Destination)	circa 1856 2 8 10 11	View Event Details	Enslaved
ship's passage	Baltimore, Maryland (Origin) Monrovia (Destination)	26 Nov 1856 to 21 Jan 1857 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9	View Event Details	Enslaved

Notes

10 Nov 1856 letter from James H. Minor states that Jacob Twine was the father of several people on the ship list who had been enslaved by James Terrell. Minor does not name Jacob Twine's children.

Citations

[1] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 26 Nov 1856, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 Dec 1856, Norfolk, Virginia", 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/46670100 : accessed 20 Mar 2021).
[2] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 26 Nov 1856, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 Dec 1856, Norfolk, Virginia", 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/46670160 : accessed 21 Mar 2021).
[3] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 26 Nov 1856, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 Dec 1856, Norfolk, Virginia", 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/46670113 : accessed 21 Mar 2021).
[4] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 26 Nov 1856, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 Dec 1856, Norfolk, Virginia", Outgoing Correspondence, 1839-1912, Letters from Liberia, 1843-1874, American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress; digital image, Fold3.com. Microfilm Reel 240 (https://www.fold3.com/image/31877737 : accessed 21 Mar 2021).
[5] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 26 Nov 1856, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 Dec 1856, Norfolk, Virginia", Outgoing Correspondence, 1839-1912, Letters from Liberia, 1843-1874, American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress; digital image, Fold3.com. Microfilm Reel 240 (https://www.fold3.com/image/31877843 : accessed 21 Mar 2021).
[6] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 26 Nov 1856, Baltimore, Maryland, 6 Dec 1856, Norfolk, Virginia", 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_scm13250-0362.html : accessed 30 Mar 2021).
[7] "Voyages of the Ship M. C. Stevens." Maryland Colonization Journal, New Series, Vol. 9, No. 6 (Nov 1857): 81.
[8] "List of Emigrants by the Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, From Baltimore Nov. 29th, and Norfolk Dec. 6, 1856." African Repository, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jan 1857): 21.
[9] "Annual Report of the American Colonization Society" African Repository, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Mar 1858): 73.
[10] J. H. Minor (Albemarle Co., Virgnia) to (n.p.), letter, 10 Nov 1856; "Incoming Correspondence, Domestic Letters"; American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress, digital image, Fold3.com, Microfilm Reel 80; (https://www.fold3.com/image/30217507: accessed 3 Mar 2022).
[11] Will of James H. Terrell, digital image, Albemarle Co., Virginia Will Book 24: 6, signed 12 Aug 1854, recorded 7 Apr 1856 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99P7-9G66?i=7&cat=279536 : accessed 3 Mar 2022).