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Henriette, Abram, Rachel, Cassandra, David, Benjamin, Henry Fitz Edward, Leah, Priscilla, Charles David, Robert, Anna, Rebecca, Jamima, Daniel, Ester, William, Dinah, Elizabeth, Charity, and George. There were 282 enslaved people in Fayette County in 1790, meaning that the individuals with ties to the Goe, Hutton, and Magruder families constituted a significant percentage of the region's Black community.
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wheat, flax, wool, cows, lambs, and pigs. This suggests that the people whom Hutton enslaved labored primarily as farmers and domestic servants. There were some people, however, who had acquired more specialized skills. Henry Fitz Edward and Charles David possessed knowledge of tailoring and shoemaking respectively.
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of the twenty-six people she still enslaved. She generally allowed that older people should have their freedom within a year of her death, while younger people were to be sold for a period of years before having their freedom. Hutton also allowed most of this group to collect cash and goods from her
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In her last will and testament, Hutton bequeathed a variety of tools to the people she enslaved, including axes, hoes, sickles, scythes, and ploughs for the men, as well as spinning wheels, pots, kettles, and skillets for the women. Hutton also bequeathed various crops and livestock, including corn,
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Margaret Goe was born on August 19, 1727, in Prince George's County, Maryland, to William Goe and Mary Boyd. She married Richard Hutton and the couple had a daughter they named Mary. When Richard died in 1772, he bequeathed to Mary a boy named Edward Simpson and a girl named Hannah. When Mary Hutton
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Tony Burroughs identifies at least thirty-six people whom Hutton held in bondage during her lifetime. Their names are as follows: "Old Catherine," "Old Rachel," "Old Jeremiah," Tobias, Hannah, William Edward Simpson, Thomas Simpson, Sarah, Susannah, Alice, Isaac, Philimona, Terrementa, Alice,
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along with between twenty and thirty enslaved people they brought from Maryland. The death of Margaret's husband, followed by her son-in-law in 1787, left Hutton one of the wealthiest women in the region, as she inherited land and enslaved people from both men.
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executors in order to support themselves in freedom. Her decision to leave property to the community she had enslaved during her lifetime helped to establish a free Black community in the
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Frontier Capitalism and Unfree Labor in Middle Appalachia: The Development of Western Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1760-1840
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History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men
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When Margaret Hutton composed her last will and testament on February 12, 1795, she provided for the conditional
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The Goes, Huttons, and Magruders moved to southwestern Pennsylvania in 1773, settling near
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The Goe Family, 1996: A Revised and Updated Edition of The Goe Family, 1702-1978 ...
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married Hezekiah Magruder, Mary and Edward became his property under the law of
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largest enslaver in Pennsylvania at the time of the first federal census
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William Goe (brother), Hezekiah Magruder (son-in-law)
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Prince George's County, Maryland
Washington Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
née
settler colonist
enslaver
first federal census
coverture
Redstone Creek
Fayette County
Genealogist
manumission
Monongahela Valley
List of slave owners
Curtis Grubb


The Goe Family, 1996: A Revised and Updated Edition of The Goe Family, 1702-1978 ...
"Hutton, Margaret"
A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790-1900
History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men
"From North to Natchez during the Age of Gradual Abolition"
doi
10.1353/pmh.2019.0014
ISSN
2169-8546
S2CID
151098017
"Invisible Hands: Slaves, Bound Laborers, and the Development of Western Pennsylvania, 1780-1820"
doi
10.2307/27778659

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