Virginia Emigrants to Liberia

Data

Individual Type
Age at Emigration	22.0 specified
Emigration Origin	Rappahannock Co., Virginia
Emigration Destination	Liberia
Sex	male
Occupation	farmer

Individuals

Charles Williams

Recorded Names

Charles Williams 3

Associated Individuals

enslaved by Mr. Fristoe (slaveholder) 3

Events

	Rappahannock Co., Virginia (Origin) Liberia (Destination)	circa 1834 1	View Event Details
ship's passage	Norfolk, Norfolk Co., Virginia (Origin) Bassa Cove (Destination)	26 Oct 1834 to unknown 1 2 3	View Event Details

Notes

The Ninus ship list notes: "manumitted by Mr. Fristoe of Rappahannock Co. Drowned Dec 1834"

Citations

[1] "Intelligence.: Emigrants to Africa." African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 10, No. 9 (Nov 1834): 286.
[2] Eli Seifman, "The United Colonization Societies of New-York and Pennsylvania and the Establishment of the African Colony of Bassa Cove" Pennsylvania History, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Jan 1968): 23-44, digital images (https://journals.psu.edu/phj/article/view/23277 : accessed 28 Aug 2023).
[3] "Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania Minute Book, 1834-1841", Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, Colonization Society; digital image, Lincoln.edu (https://www.lincoln.edu/langston-hughes-memorial-library/special-collections-and-archives/digital-collections/library-colonization-society.html : accessed 8 Dec 2023).
[4] Elliott Cresson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) to U.S. Senate (Washington City), letter, 30 Oct 1834; "Incoming Correspondence, Domestic Letters"; American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress, digital image, Fold3.com, Microfilm Reel 21; (https://www.fold3.com/image/27400762: accessed 3 Jan 2024).