Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives"

Fugitive Slaves > T - W > Tompkins, Elizabeth

   
   
   
slave name: Tompkins, Elizabeth
owner name: Cooper, Arthur
occupation: clergyman
state: Virginia
town: Norfolk
census: Arthur Cooper farmer, Elizabeth River, Norfolk, 1860, 1 slave, female age 8; age 34, liv with wife, 4 children, 2 other children and black female domestic 16.  1200 pers property
place sent: New Bedford, Mass.  
comments: bro-in-law in New Bedford; party of 13 on schooner

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