Dorcas

Dorcas
b: 1780 or 1781
d:
Biography
<183> Dorcas (also referred to as "Darcus") -- Born 1780 or
1781. Daughter of Betty Hollady (435>. Residing at Old
Ordinary in 1781. Sent from Old Ordinary to the Shenandoah
tract in April 1787. Residing at Aquarius in 1788 and 1791;
unlocated in 1796. Named in 1791 deed of emancipation.
Scheduled for emancipation in 1800, but name is not listed
among those presented for freedom in that year. Sources:
Deed of Emancipation, August 1, 1791, Pt. 1, pp. 6, 29, and
Pt. 2, pp. 7, 25; "2d Book of Miscellanies," p. 53; James
Harrison's Inventory of Sundry Effects at Old Ordinary
Plantation, January 1, 1785, Chicago Historical Society;
Letterbook, 1785-1787, pp. 251-53, 255-56.
Facts
  • 1780 or 1781 - Birth -
  • Death - Y
Ancestors
   
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James Banks
- by 1788
  
  
  
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Dorcas
1780 or 1781 -
  
 
  
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Family Group Sheet - Child
PARENT (M) James Banks
Birth
Deathby 1788
Marriageto Betty Hollady
Father?
Mother?
PARENT (F) Betty Hollady
Birth1753
Death
Marriageto James Banks
Father?
Mother?
CHILDREN
MJames
Birth1784
Death
FDorcas
Birth1780 or 1781
Death
FKate Johnson
Birth1777
Death
FJudith Banks
Birth1776
Death