Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives"

Fugitive Slaves > J - L > Lewey, Rebecca

   
   
   
slave name: Lewey, Rebecca
owner name: Anderson, Eliza
occupation: merchant (dry goods)
state: Virginia
town: Norfolk
census: 1850, 48, liv w Richard Riddick, dry goods merchant and family; 1860,
57, milliner, 12,500 pers, liv w Rebecca Riddick, other women
place sent: Boston, Mass., and Canada
comments: party of 13 on schooner; husband a slave, und rr agent, joined in Boston or Canada

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