Virginia Emigrants to Liberia

Data

Individual Type
Age at Emigration	3.0 specified
Emigration Origin	Brownsburg, Rockbridge Co., Virginia
Emigration Destination	Liberia
Sex	female
Legal Status

Individuals

Elsey/Eley Porterfield

Recorded Names

Eley Porterfield 1
Elsey Porterfield 2

Associated Individuals

enslaved by Hugh Adams (slaveholder) 1

Events

	Rockbridge Co., Virginia (primary location)	14 Sep 1857 5	View Event Details
	Brownsburg, Rockbridge Co., Virginia (Origin) Liberia (Destination)	circa 1860 1 2	View Event Details
ship's passage	Baltimore, Maryland (Origin)	21 Apr 1860 to unknown 1 2 3 4	View Event Details

Citations

[1] "List of Emigrants, Per Ship M. C. Stevens, From Baltimore, April 21, and Savannah, May 2, 1860." African Repository, Vol. 36, No. 5 (May 1860): 140.
[2] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 21 Apr 1860, Baltimore, Maryland, 2 May 1860, Savannah, Georgia", 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/31879168 : accessed 25 Mar 2021).
[3] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 21 Apr 1860, Baltimore, Maryland, 2 May 1860, Savannah, Georgia", 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/31879240 : accessed 25 Mar 2021).
[4] "Ship Mary Caroline Stevens, 21 Apr 1860, Baltimore, Maryland, 2 May 1860, Savannah, Georgia", 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_scm13250-0363.html : accessed 31 Mar 2021).
[5] Will of Hugh Adams, Rockbridge Co., Virginia Circuit Court Will Book 1: 136, signed 24 Aug 1857, recorded 14 Sep 1857.