Freedom seeking of people enslaved in Cumberland County, 1781

Event Record
Status: FreedomSeeker
EVENT DETAILS
Eleven people enslaved by Thomas Jefferson escape from Cumberland County during a British invasion, most of them part of Hannibal and Patty’s family.
Event Type: Subtype Status: FreedomSeeker
Date 1781
Location From Cumberland To British Encampment
SOURCES
Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, page 29
Jefferson’s Statement of Losses to the British at His Cumberland Plantations in 1781, [27 January 1783]
Thomas Jefferson to William Gordon, 16 July 1788
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EVENT PARTICIPANTS
Participant Role Status Occupation Notes
Recorded together in source
Hannibal (d. 1781) Freedom Seeker Liminal Status
Patty (1754-1781) Freedom Seeker Liminal Status
Isabel (b. 1770) Freedom Seeker Liminal Status
Sam (1772-1781) Freedom Seeker Liminal Status
Sally (1776-1781) Freedom Seeker Liminal Status
Nanny (1778-1781) Freedom Seeker Liminal Status
Fanny (1780-1781) Freedom Seeker Liminal Status
Prince (1769-1781) Freedom Seeker Liminal Status
Nancy (d. 1781) Freedom Seeker Liminal Status
Sam Freedom Seeker Liminal Status
Recorded individually
Lucy (d. 1781) Freedom Seeker Liminal Status