Sarah Newport

first name
Sarah
last name
Newport
gender
female
birth, death year
1780 , 1820
first, last year in records
--, --
confidence level
confirmed identity
freed status (year freed)
unknown
enslaver(s)
location(s)
place of origin

Bio

Sarah married Eliphalet Newport, who had once lived in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. The 1800 federal census shows that Sarah, Eliphalet, and son Ralph were living in New York City. In 1820, when Eliphalet was 49, Sarah was 40, and Ralph was 17, the family emigrated to Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone, via the American Colonization Society. Eliphalet and Sarah, along with other emigrants, died several weeks later of disease, and in 1833, Ralph drowned.

Sources Consulted

 "'His Own Proper Negro Slave': Amos Newport & his Descendants in Hatfield, Williamsburg & Amherst", Eric W. Weber, 2014