Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives"

Fugitive Slaves > J - L > Latham, Major

   
   
   
slave name: Latham, Major (Miller)
owner name: Latham, John
occupation: carpenter
state: North Carolina
town: Williamston
county: Martin County
census: 1850, 44, carpenter, w wife, 4 ch, 10 slaves; 1860 w wife, 2 sons, 2000 real, 200 pers
comments: 44-5, with three others on Wilmington schooner, first wife and 3 children sold, remaried, 3 more ch; Canada Census 1861, mulatto, married to Irish-born woman 39, illiterate, Etobicoke, York, Canada West

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