1755 Census of Slaves Older than Fourteen in the "Mannour of Pelham"

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On June 8, 2007, I presented a paper to attendees at the 28th Annual Conference on New York State History entitled  “Slavery in the Manor of Pelham and the Town of Pelham During the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries".  Among the many, many resources on which I relied in the preparation of that paper was a census of slaves older than fourteen in the "Mannour of Pelham" prepared by John Pell on April 12, 1755.  I have transcribed the text of that brief census below.


"MANOR OF PELHAM.
A True List of all the Slaves both Male & Female in the mannour of Pelham above the Age of Fourteen Years according to Report to me made in Submission to the present Malitia Act of General Assembly of this province

....................................................................................Numb,
Joshua Pells numbr males 2......................................... 2
Caleb Pells numbr males two Femals two.................. 4
Philip Pells numb males two Femals two.................... 4
Samll Rodmans number Males two Femals two........ 4
Bernard Rylanders males two Femals one................. 3
Phebe Pell wd Jos. pell Deed one male one Femal...2 
Executive of Isaac Contine Deed males one...............1
for my own possession males three, Female 1.......... 4
................................................number of the Whole.    24 

From your Honnours Most Humble Servant
JOHN PELL, Captain
of the Mannor of pelham.

Aprill the 12th 1755"

Source:  O'Callaghan, E.B., ed., The Documentary History of the State of New-York Arranged Under Direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, Secretary of State, Vol. III, p. 854 (Albany, NY:  Weed, Parsons & Co., Public Printers 1850).

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1755 Advertisement Announcing Sale at "Publick Vendue" of Pelham Lands Along Boston Post Road

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On July 21, 1755, a brief advertisement appeared in The New-York Mercury announcing an upcoming public sale of lands "in the tenure and occupation of Daniel Angovan in the manor of Pelham". According to the advertisement, the lands adjoined Boston Post Road. The advertisement, in its entirety, appears below. A citation to its source follows the text of the advertisement.

"To be sold at publick vendue, on friday, the first day of August next, the plantation now in the tenure and occupation of Daniel Angovan, in the manor of Pelham, adjoining the post road, between East-chester and New-Rochell, and to lands belonging to Benjamin Brown, and to Jane and Susannah Contayn, containing about 25 acres, of which six acres are wood-land, and has on it a good dwelling house, garden, and a large orchard, of a great variety of fruit trees, and a great part of it in good fence: Its very commodious for a country seat, a shop-keeper or tradesman. For title and conditions of sale, enquire of Mary Bayona, at New Rochelle, or John Beekman at New-York."

Source: To Be Sold at Publick Vendue, The New-York Mercury, Jul. 21, 1755, Issue 154, p. 1, col. 3.

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