slave schedule

Oldfields enslavers.

The 1860 slave schedule is the only known surviving, contemporaneous list of the men and women who enslaved black people in Wilson County. It is not a list of the enslaved themselves, as none are named in that census. Rather, the schedule described people by “color” (black or mulatto), sex, and age.

Organized by township, this series will set forth these enslavers, the number of people they held in 1860, and the ages of the youngest and oldest people held. Where possible, I will also name people known to be enslaved by each person. They may or may not correspond to people described in the 1860 slave schedule. The paucity of such identifications is heartbreaking, and I continue to search.

Oldfields district was the southeast corner of Nash County prior to 1855. The 1860 slave schedule lists 47 enslavers in this section of Wilson County, the largest of whom — Bartley Deans, who traded enslaved people as a little sideline — held 44 people in bondage. Other than Deans, Oldfield township’s slaveholders were yeoman farmers, not plantation owners.

Phebe Boykin — 3, ages 1 to 62 years

Garry Williamson — 8, ages 8 months to 31 years

Bartley Deans — 44, ages 1 month to 55 years

  • Hester, Jerry, Bunyan, Sithey, Zilley, Mosey, Hack, Ben, Isaac, Molley, Patty, Matey and her youngest child Amos, Creasy and her youngest child June, Mendy, Linda, Charity, Pashey, Lear and her child John, blacksmith Harry, Mingo, Virgil and Rachel and their children Henry and Louis, Thaney, Jason, Nisey, Louisa and Edmund, Darkes, Rhuben, Peter, Silvey and her children Louisa and Piety, Bryant, Ransom, Joseph, James, Randel

Stephen Boykin — 10, ages 8 months to 55 years

  • Anthony, Nancy, Rose, Henry, Chaney, Thom, Jason

Willie [Wiley] Deans — 11, ages 2 months to 33 years

William Haynes — 1, age 14 years

Jesse Haynes — 2, ages 11 and 36 years

Bithel Haynes — 1, age 5 years

Jethro Harrison — 1, age 20 years

Bennett Flowers — 5, age 4 months to 70 years

Temperance Eatmon — 2, ages 18 and 22 years

Elizabeth Simpson — 1, age 65 years

Bennet Bullock [Jr.] — 1, age 45 years

William Peele — 5, age 3 to 30 years

Henry Stott — 6, ages 1 to 40 years

Nancy Flowers — 3, ages 7 to 90 years

Adam Flowers — 1, age 9 years

Alfred Thompson — 5, ages 10 to 75 years

Alfred Thompson, in trust — 9, ages 1 to 35 years

Benjamin Parker — 3, ages 1 to 25 years

Arthur Thompson — 4, ages 1 to 38 years

Hilliard Boykin — 8, ages 1 month to 33 years

Williamson Fulghum — 1, age 16 years

Dempsey Peele — 2, ages 1 and 32 years

Bryant L. Bunn — 1, age 35 years

John Morris — 3, age 3 months to 21 years

Theo Parker — 9, age 2 to 37 years

Stephen Peele — 1, age 17 years

James Boyett — 8, age 2 to 28 years

William Taylor — 7, age 6 to 80 years

Jarman Eatmon — 6, age 1 to 25 years

Thomas Eatmon — 1, age 50 years

Hackney High — 1, age 26 years

Ephraim Davis — 1, age 7 years

Peter Eatmon — 4, ages 11 to 30 years

John Peele — 1, age 50 years

Alison High — 1, age 26 years

Richmond Boykin — 2, ages 14 and 21 years

Stephen Morris — 1, age 56 years

Thomas Mercer — 2, ages 1 and 18 years

Josse Peele — 3, ages 7 to 50

Selitia Eatmon — 5, ages 7 to 60

John B. High — 6, ages 3 months to 28 years

Levi Bailey — 11, ages 1 to 60 years

Needham Bailey — 4, ages 3 to 27 years

Alfred Boykin — 5, ages 7 to 26 years

Robert Simpson — 1, age 70 years

Kirbys enslavers.

The 1860 slave schedule is the only known surviving, contemporaneous list of the men and women who enslaved black people in Wilson County. It is not a list of the enslaved themselves, as none are named in that census. Rather, the schedule described people by “color” (black or mulatto), sex, and age.

Organized by township, this series will set forth these enslavers, the number of people they held in 1860, and the ages of the youngest and oldest people held. Where possible, I will also name people known to be enslaved by each person. They may or may not correspond to people described in the 1860 slave schedule. The paucity of such identifications is heartbreaking, and I continue to search.

Kirbys district was essentially present-day Cross Roads and Springhill townships and was part of Wayne and Johnston Counties prior to 1855. The 1860 slave schedule lists 29 enslavers in this section of Wilson County, the largest of whom held 16 people in bondage. Southwestern Wilson County consisted predominantly of yeoman farmers, not plantation owners, in contrast to county’s eastern districts.

Jacob Rentfro — 2, ages 67 and 72 years

Kinchen Crumpler — 3, age 1 to 49 years

Joseph Raper — 1, age 13 years

Thomas Woodard — 2, ages 50 and 67 years

John Revell — 3, age 10 to 27 years

Ashley Atkinson — 1, age 8

Pitts Kirby — 2, ages 17 and 19 years

Dempsey Watson — 2, ages 9 and 11

Geraldus Sullivant — 1, age 67

Mabry Rentfro — 4, ages 3 to 30 years

Lovett Atkinson — 9, ages 1 month to 30 years

Matthew Peel — 1, age 59 years

  • Sampson

Rufus Rentfro — 1, age 12 years

J.T. Rentfro — 1, age 48 years

Hinyard Rentfro — 2, ages 7 and 17 years

Simon Barnes and 7 others — 4, ages 5 to 40 years

Simon Barnes, in trust — 12, ages 6 months to 48 years

Ransom Hinnant — 5, age 5 to 53 years

Sallie Hinnant — 3, age 14 to 46 years

John H. Barnes — 8, ages 3 months to 34 years

Sarah Boykin — 1, age 14 years

M.M. Godwin — 1, age 18 years

Roberson Raper — 1, age 19 years

Nelson Kent — 7, age 6 months to 40 years

William Hinnant — 9, age 2 months to 53 years

W.H. Hinnant in trust — 16, age 3 to 50 years

Andrew Scott — 5, age 2 to 55 years

David A. Scott — 2, ages 7 and 10 years

John D. Adams — 3, age 13 to 80 years

 

Joyners & Gardners enslavers.

The 1860 slave schedule is the only known surviving, contemporaneous list of the men and women who enslaved black people in Wilson County. It is not a list of the enslaved themselves, as none are named in that census. Rather, the schedule described people by “color” (black or mulatto), sex, and age.

Organized by township, this series will set forth these enslavers, the number of people they held in 1860, and the ages of the youngest and oldest people held. Where possible, I will also name people known to be enslaved by each person. They may or may not correspond to people described in the 1860 slave schedule. The paucity of such identifications is heartbreaking, and I continue to search.

Here we have a combined Joyners & Gardners district, which were part of Edgecombe County prior to 1855. The 1860 slave schedule lists 76 enslavers in this section of Wilson County. The largest were Robert Bynum and James Reddick Barnes:

William G. Sharpe — 9, age 3 to 39 years

Rolin [Rowland] Wiggins — 1, age 75 years

D.W. Barnes — 7, age 1 to 26 years

Jesse Farmer — 5, age 12 to 34 years

Thomas H. Bridgers — 13, age 3 months to 34 years

Bartley Williams — 3, age 3 months to 21 years

Hardy Barnes — 11, age 9 months to 40 years

Augustin Farmer — 9, age 1 to 35 years

John Batts — 1, age 8 years

William Thomas — 7, age 6 to 61 years

Hilliard Thomas — 9, age 10 to 74 years

John B. Batts — 7, age 2 to 55 years

William D. Farmer — 9, age 3 to 50 years

A.J. Williford — 3, age 14 to 50 years

J.H. Barnes — 15, age 1 to 30 years

Thomas G. Dixon — 4, age 5 months to 38 years

Henry Dixon — 2, ages 16 and 37

  • Anny

John J. Sharpe, in trust — 6, age 1 to 45 years

Hansel Wells — 3, age 1 to 45 years

Harris Winstead — 6, age 5 to 25 years

Willie Wells — 1, age 20 years

Catherine Armstrong — 5, age 6 to 53 years

Caroline Armstrong — 2, age 18 and 24

James G. Armstrong — 7, age 6 to 52 years

George W. Armstrong — 6, age 7 to 28 years

John Wilkins — 14, age 2 months to 37 years

W.H. Williams — 1, age 27 years

Nancy Ruffin — 1, age 20 years

James Pender — 14, age 1 to 66 years

Joseph W. Taylor — 1, age 50 years

J.J. [Joseph J.] Pender — 25, age 6 months to 75 years

John G. Williams — 9, age 8 to 63 years

Elizabeth Flowers — 3, age 12 to 20 years

E.H. Flowers — 2, age 1 month and 16 years

Willie G. Barnes — 13, age 9 months to 50 years

  • Quinny, Harry, Scilla and her child

Joseph L. Petway — 1, age 60 years

Franklin Bridgers — 1, age 11 years

Milly Bridgers — 24, age 6 months to 50 years

John Bridgers — 9, age 2 months to 45 years

Holiway Ethridge — 1, age 47 years

Benjamin Sharpe — 15, age 1 to 42 years

Martin Thomas — 8, age 3 to 60 years

David Sharpe — 5, age 5 months to 26 years

Elizabeth Barnes — 10, age 10 months to 60 years

James W. Barnes — 14, age 3 months to 33 years

James J. Taylor — 30, age 8 months to 55 years

Mary A. Rountree — 7, age 8 to 50 years

Hartwell Williford — 4, age 8 to 45 years

Elizabeth Williford — 6, age 5 to 23 years

Benjamin Edwards — 1, age 14 years

A.J. Pender — 12, age 9 months to 16 years

Sallie Gill — 1, age 65 years

D.W. Barnes, in trust — 1, age 18 years

James Woodard — 14, age 4 to 68 years

Hiram Forbs — 10, age 6 months to 35 years

James S. Barnes — 14, age 1 to 51 years

Stephen Cherry — 7, age 9 months to 35 years

W.W. Batts — 7, age 6 to 62 years

Martha Batts — 5, age 16 to 60 years

Elisha Robbins — 5, age 16 to 45 years

Jesse Pitman — 3, age 13 to 55 years

John Carter — 1, age 3 years

Willie Walston — 1, age 50 years

William Skinner — 6, age 1 to 48 years

W.W. Flowers — 1, age 18 years

Martha Thorn — 1, age 16 years

D.W. Barnes, in trust — 4, age 3 to 26 years

Milliann Eason — 4, age 1 to 26 years

William Woodard — 19, age 10 to 65 years

Calvin Woodard — 18, age 2 to 60 years

James R. Barnes — 41, age 1 to 60 years

James R. Barnes, in trust — 32, age 9 months to 55 years

James S. Woodard — 14, age 1 to 35 years

Moses Farmer — 24, age 1 to 60 years

Elizabeth Woodard — 10, age 12 to 60 years

Robert Bynum — 46, age 1 month to 52 years

Slave schedule.

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Prior to 1850, enslaved people were enumerated only as numbers in columns designated for sex and age. In 1850 and 1860, the federal government expanded the census to include “slave schedules.” Though enslaved people still were not recorded by name, they were enumerated individually by age, sex and color and grouped by slaveowner (or representative). Additional columns tallied “fugitives from the state,” “number manumitted,” “deaf, dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic,” and “no. of slave houses.”

These pages are the first and second in the 1860 slave schedule of Black Creek township, Wilson County. In them,

  • Sallie Simms reported that she owned ten slaves aged 7 months to 72 and sheltered them in two houses.
  • William Thompson reported that he owned 22 slaves aged 7 months to 44 and sheltered them in five houses.
  • Dr. A.G. Brooks reported that he owned 29 slaves aged 1 to 55 and sheltered them in four houses.
  • Enos Barnes reported that he owned two teenaged boys and sheltered them in one house.
  • Celia Barnes reported that she owned 28 year-old and 53 year-old men.
  • James Barnes reported that he owned nine slaves aged 3 to 50 and sheltered them in four houses.
  • Jesse Watson reported that he owned one ten year-old boy.
  • James Daniel reported that he owned four male slaves aged 9 to 60 and sheltered them in two houses.
  • Joseph Farrell reported that he owned nine slaves aged 5 months to 38 and sheltered them in one house.
  • James Nusom reported that he owned 22 slaves aged 1 to 28 and sheltered them in four houses.
  • Jesse Sauls reported that he owned seven slaves aged 3 to 26 and sheltered them in two houses.
  • Nancy Bass reported that she owned eight slaves aged 5 months to 36 and sheltered them in two houses.
  • Belinda Aycock reported that she owned six slaves aged 3 to 38 and sheltered them in two houses.
  • Sallie Daniel reported that she owned 14 slaves aged 11 months to 53 and sheltered them in four houses.
  • Elisha Bass reported reported that he owned six slaves aged 3 months to 30 and sheltered them in one house.
  • Jeremiah Bass reported that he owned a 17 year-old girl and two babies, aged 2 years and 4 months, who were probably her children.
  • Ephraim Bass reported that he owned a 36 year-old man.