Lenoir County, NC - Slave Schedule – Census of 1860 NOTE: The data from the slave schedule of 1860 transcribed and posted on Ancestry.com is useful but not completely reliable, since the names of several slaveholders are found on the schedule more than once, probably because a slaveholder’s name appears on each page that lists his or her slaves. I have thus relied heavily on my own transcription of the images of the original schedule, which I believe to be more accurate. Nevertheless, difficulties still arise from the way the information in the schedule was recorded. While the large majority of slaves can be identified as the property of a single individual who usually appears as a head of household in the federal census of 1860, there are several exceptions to this rule. Slaves who were bequeathed to minors are usually (but not always) listed under the name of the minor’s guardian, often immediately below the guardian’s own slaves. Since these slaves were not the property of the guardian, they are not listed as such, which results in reducing the size of some of the county’s larger slave holdings. Other slaves are listed as belonging to an estate which had not yet been settled, and were presumably divided among the heirs at a later date. On a few occasions, slaves may be listed as belonging to more than one owner. Finally, the names of a few slave owners that appear in the schedule do not also appear in the federal census of 1860, leading one to conclude that the owner must have lived outside the county but owned land within it on which these slaves lived and worked. To sum up the problem: Slaveholdings can not always be linked to a single head of household, or even to a single individual. Despite these problems, an analysis of the data taken from the slave schedule yields some interesting results. In 1860, when the county’s total inhabitants numbered just over 10,000, slaves made-up some 50.4% of the population, making Lenoir one of only fourteen counties in North Carolina with a slave majority. In the state as a whole, slaves were 33.5% of the population, and for the eleven states that would shortly make-up the Confederacy, 30.8%. Since 1820, the county’s slave population had hovered around 50%, yet during these four decades (1820- 1860), thousands of slaves were either sold or moved with their owners from Lenoir and other counties in eastern North Carolina to the cotton states farther south and west. What these figures suggest is that, despite a huge outward migration, the county’s slave population still managed to reproduce at a rate sufficiently rapid to maintain its relative size. It is interesting to compare Lenoir’s patterns of slaveholding in this year with those of other regions. In Lenoir, 47% of all households owned one or more slaves; for North Carolina and for the Confederate states as a whole, these figures are 28% and 31%, respectively. Slavery was thus an important institution in the county; in fact, the patterns of slaveholding in Lenoir resemble the patterns found in most of North Carolina and in the Upper South less than they resemble those found in such Deep South states as South Carolina and Mississippi, whose populations were also more than 50% slave, and where 45 to 50% of all households also owned at least one slave. Those individuals who owned twenty or more slaves--the number most often used to designate a "planter"--were approximately 12% of all slaveholders in the South and the same is true North Carolina as well. In Lenoir, however, 19% of all slaveholders owned more than twenty slaves, once again a figure closer to that found in South Carolina (20%) and Mississippi (19%) than to those found in North Carolina and the Upper South. On the other hand, 67% of the county’s planters owned less than thirty slaves, while only ten (11%) owned fifty or more. This contrasts with the Deep South, where holdings of fifty or more slaves were far more common. Geographically, Lenoir’s slave population was very unevenly distributed, with 75% of the total found north of the Neuse (Bear Creek, Contentnea, and Kinston districts). In this region, slaves made up nearly 55% of the population. Of those slaveholders who owned 20 or more slaves, 73% lived north of the river as well, as did all ten of those planters who owned fifty or more slaves. South of the Neuse (Sand Hill, Trent, and Woodington districts), in which only 27% of the county’s planters resided, slaves made-up 42.5% of the population. Not surprisingly, slaves were more numerous in those parts of the county where land was most fertile, such as the Bucklesberry, Falling Creek, and Contentnea neck regions north of the Neuse, and less so in the southern part of the county, in which much of Lenoir’s poorer soil was found. (RESULTS OF ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS AND OF AN ANALYSIS OF THE 1850 SLAVE SCHEDULE TO BE PRESENTED AT A LATER DATE) Slave Schedule – Census of 1860 – Lenoir County, NC Ranked by Holdings Slave Owner Age No. of slaves District >100 John Tull 28 148 Kinston Council Wooten 56 127 Bear Creek 80-99 John C. Washington 58 85 Kinston James W. Cox 54 80 Kinston-Town 60-79 James Wood 44 65 Bear Creek James M. Parrott 36 63 Kinston William Herring 49 61 Kinston 50-59 Walter Dunn 39 53 Kinston Thomas J. Kennedy 44 52 Bear Creek L. C. Desmond 58 51 Kinston 40-49 James M. Hines 48 49 Bear Creek William Carraway 22 48 Contentnea Shade Wooten 61 47 Bear Creek Mary E. Bright 22 44 Kinston Jesse Lassiter 60 42 Bear Creek Dr. J. B. Jones __ 42 Bear Creek John King 78 42 Contentnea James Davis 41 Trent 30-39 John Joyner 39 39 Bear Creek Bright Kennedy 40 39 Bear Creek Parrott Hardy 50 37 Bear Creek Henry Bond 45 37 Kinston Guardians of Stephen Miller 35 Contentnea Aretas Jones 77 34 Trent Lucy Wooten 76 33 Trent B & J. G. Whitfield, exec __ 31 Kinston S. E. Loftin 48 31 Kinston-Town John A. Parrott 38 30 Woodington Ann B. Cobb 63 30 Woodington 20-29 Benjamin Sutton Sr 65 29 Bear Creek S. E. I. Warters heirs ? 29 Bear Creek Thomas Harvey 17 29 Contentnea Thomas Becton 48 29 Woodington Thomas H. Dawson 40 28 Bear Creek Charlotte Harper 45 28 Bear Creek William Sutton 64 28 Kinston E. I. Dunn 34 28 Kinston-Town William H. Rountree 18 27 Contentnea Dempsey Wood 43 26 Bear Creek Marg. Hutchins 77 26 Kinston R. W. King 40 26 Kinston-Town Stephen Phillips 46 25 Contentnea Nancy Hodges & L Taylor 52 25 Kinston Whitfield Grady 62 25 Woodington Harriet Parrott& 4 others 54 24 Bear Creek John Coward 32 24 Contentnea Caleb Wiggins 70 24 Contentnea Mrs. Benj. Miller 55 24 Woodington Nancy Taylor ? 24 Woodington Hardy Sutton 54 23 Bear Creek Elbert Edwards 36 23 Contentnea L. H. McDaniel 38 23 Kinston-Town Lewis Miller 32 23 Kinston-Town James Nunn 54 23 Trent Nathan B. Whitfield 24 23 Trent Ann C. Davis 23 Trent Joshua J. Herring 38 22 Bear Creek J. J. Hines ? 22 Bear Creek James Kilpatrick 70 22 Contentnea William Pope 30 22 Contentnea Richard Rouse 72 22 Trent Benj F. Davis 22 Woodington John Loftin 53 22 Woodington John C. Wooten 37 22 Woodington Robert H. Bruton 22 Woodington James Warters 48 21 Bear Creek Noah and Eliza Palmer. guardians of Noah Rouse 10, 12 21 Bear Creek Charlton Edwards 39 21 Contentnea Simon E, Hodges 28 21 Kinston James T. Albritton 31 21 Kinston Calvin Rouse 44 21 Kinston John H. Peebles 46 21 Kinston-Town John Rhem 44 21 Sand Hill Richard Noble ? 21 Trent James Davis ? 21 Trent William Warters 44 20 Bear Creek J. F. I. Sutton 37 20 Bear Creek Thomas Dawson 79 20 Bear Creek John P. Dunn Estate 20 Contentnea Mrs. Mary Edwards 36 20 Contentnea Calvin Tucker 38 20 Kinston J. M. Pridgen 21 20 Kinston John F. Wooten 37 20 Kinston-Town Alexander Nicol 36 20 Kinston-Town John S. Davis# 34 20 Trent Jesse Jackson 43 20 Woodington 10-19 Ava Allen 34 19 Bear Creek Elizabeth Sutton 65 19 Bear Creek Noah Rouse 30 19 Bear Creek Sarah M. Dunn 37 19 Contentnea Curtis Phillips 66 19 Contentnea Needham Moore 53 19 Kinston George Washington 42 19 Kinston-Town Pinckney Hardee 58 19 Kinston-Town William Fields 46 19 Kinston-Town Wiley Rouse 42 19 Trent Josiah Sutton 49 18 Bear Creek Stephen Miller 35 18 Contentnea Cynthia Dunn 56 18 Kinston John M. Aldridge 40 18 Kinston-Town Reuben Barrow 60 18 Kinston-Town John Stubbs 50 18 Kinston-Town Jesse Kinsey 29 18 Trent Wm T. Wooten 18 Trent Oliver Herring 61 18 Woodington Josiah Wooten 42 17 Bear Creek Samuel Aldredge 17 Contentnea Lemuel J. Mewborn 27 17 Kinston Susan Mewborn 49 17 Kinston Thomas Davis 40 17 Trent Allen W. Wooten 52 17 Trent Richard L. Wooten 8 16 Bear Creek Thomas W. Rouse 28 16 Bear Creek Tully Moseley 52 16 Contentnea Thomas A. Heath, guard. 8 minors 16 Contentnea Susan Mewborne 18 16 Kinston L. A. Byrd 16 Kinston B. F. Parrott 22 16 Kinston John W. Cobb, guardian 16 Kinston-Town John B. Stanly 29 16 Kinston-Town Jacob West 42 16 Sand Hill H. W. Blount 39 16 Trent Wm J. Hunter 32 16 Woodington Adam C. Davis 38 15 Bear Creek Benj. Rouse 15 Bear Creek James Kilpatrick 70 15 Contentnea Jacob A Hartsfield 38 15 Kinston Joseph P. Hardy 27 15 Kinston 5 minors, guard. of Susan Mewborn 15 Kinston Guard. to Nannie & Albert Coward 16, 11 Kinston-Town Anna(?) Stanly 15 Trent Alex L. Rouse 46 15 Woodington Mrs. Nancy Sugg 52 14 Bear Creek Susan Waters 72 14 Bear Creek Guardians of James M. Parrott 14 Kinston R. E. Davis 32 14 Trent Mrs. S. E. Whitfield 50 14 Trent Nathan B. Whitfield 24 14 Trent John P. Miller 26 14 Woodington Elizabeth Cauly 64 14 Woodington William Daily 46 13 Bear Creek Wm Ormond 60 13 Contentnea Joshua Rouse 44 13 Contentnea Alfred Moore 47 13 Kinston J. H. Rountree 29 13 Kinston Joseph Williams 27 13 Kinston John Jackson 57 13 Sand Hill John H. Jackson 22 13 Sand Hill W. L. Kilpatrick 13 Sand Hill Daniel Hines 46 13 Trent Stephen Gooding 38 13 Woodington Anthony Davis 41 12 Trent John Leary 12 Trent Miss S. E. Whitfield 22 12 Trent Penelope Taylor 59 12 Woodington Chas Holland 35 12 Woodington Benj F. Sutton 32 11 Bear Creek Matthew H. Carr 66 11 Contentnea Rachel Bright 57 11 Kinston Willis Pipkin 40 11 Trent William G. Taylor 33 11 Woodington Stephen Hines 48 11 Woodington Mary Parker 59 11 Woodington William Cummings 30 11 Woodington Alexander Wilson 46 10 Bear Creek James M. Patrick 49 10 Bear Creek Luther Babbitt 45 10 Bear Creek Nancy Herring 10 Bear Creek Richard B. Taylor 39 10 Contentnea F. H. Laroque 42 10 Contentnea E. F. Albritton 29 10 Kinston Walter Kennedy 48 10 Kinston Evan Williams 40 10 Kinston-Town R. D. Nunn 54 10 Kinston-Town John Pearce 38 10 Sand Hill Geo W. Jones 10 Trent Redding Croom 66 10 Woodington R. B. Cauly 22 10 Woodington Zack Davis 52 10 Woodington <10 Wright Phillips 56 9 Contentnea Jacob Langston 60 9 Contentnea J. T. Askew 27 9 Kinston Ann E. Green 60 9 Kinston-Town Lewis B. Cox 23 9 Kinston-Town D. S. Block 9 Kinston-Town Mary Allen 50 9 Kinston-Town E. F. Cox 21 9 Kinston-Town Smithy Powell 48 9 Kinston-Town Trustee Nancy Tull 9 Kinston-Town Samuel Howard 9 Sand Hill Sarah Loftin 9 Woodington Thomas Hill 8 Bear Creek Jerre Sutton 8 Bear Creek Thomas Moseley 30 8 Contentnea Lemuel H. Mewborn 8 Contentnea Nancy Hodges 52 8 Kinston R. F. Bright 32 8 Kinston Amos Harvey 43 8 Kinston-Town Elizabeth Blount 60 8 Kinston-Town Harry C, Barwick 46 8 Sand Hill W. H. West 32 8 Sand Hill John B. Bryan 34 8 Sand Hill Isaac Stroud 8 Trent Wm. A. Croom 32 8 Trent Hayward Waller 36 8 Woodington Penelope Becton 39 8 Woodington Shepherd Jones 64 8 Woodington Alexander M. Dawson 12 7 Bear Creek Stephen Hardy 26 7 Bear Creek Geo. F. Whitfield 28 7 Bear Creek Haywood Warters 45 7 Bear Creek Bettie Gray, guardian, and 4 others 17 7 Bear Creek Josephus Pittman 40 7 Contentnea 5 heirs, guardians of Wm Pope ? 7 Contentnea Warren Kilpatrick 50 7 Kinston F. B. Taylor 40 7 Kinston M. H. Dunn. Guardian 7 Kinston William W. Dunn 28 7 Kinston 4 minors, guardians of Edith Barwick 7 Kinston Susan Holland 49 7 Kinston-Town Lewis Jones 52 7 Trent John W. Hardy and 3 others 7 Trent Joseph Waller 68 7 Woodington W. H. Cunningham 6 Bear Creek Levi Dawson (held by Tho Dawson) 6 Bear Creek Wm H. Whitfield 48 6 Bear Creek Susan Daily Jr. 35 6 Bear Creek J. M. Pridgen and 6 others 21 6 Kinston D. A. Hill 34 6 Kinston William Gray 44 6 Kinston A. D. Smith 30 6 Kinston Sarah C. Hodges 16 6 Kinston Simon W. Bright 29 6 Kinston W. F. Loftin 20 6 Sand Hill J. W. Kinsey, guardian 38 6 Trent Zenas Davis 7 6 Trent Abram Armanie 48 6 Trent Benj. Rouse Jr. 29 6 Trent Wilson Tilghman 39 6 Trent Council Hooten 42 6 Trent Robert B. Vause 30 6 Woodington James Jones 6 Woodington E. P. Loftin 26 6 Woodington Chancey Gray 38 6 Woodington John A. Sutton 38 6 Woodington Stephen Phillips, as administrator 6 Woodington Sukie 5 Bear Creek Franklin Brothers 42 5 Bear Creek Blany W. Pridgen 39 5 Bear Creek Elizabeth Fields 50 5 Bear Creek Benj. G. Hardy 27 5 Bear Creek Lemuel Sutton 23 5 Bear Creek Joel Elmore 39 5 Bear Creek Thomas Sutton 5 Bear Creek Samuel Aldredge, guard to 4 minors 5 Contentnea Thomas Hill 5 Kinston John Kennedy 53 5 Kinston W. J. Herring 27 5 Kinston Alex Hill 5 Kinston Pinckney Hill 30 5 Kinston Moses Patterson 35 5 Kinston-Town Justus Kinsey 29 5 Kinston-Town Math. Harvey 30 5 Kinston-Town Guard. to Nannie Stanly 11 5 Kinston-Town John T. Walsh 44 5 Kinston-Town Mary E. Barwick 44 5 Sand Hill C. H. Clark 26 5 Trent W. H. Sutton 27 5 Woodington Henry N. Croom 30 5 Woodington Charles S. Croom 20 5 Woodington Wm L. Parker 21 5 Woodington Mary Herring 5 Woodington Josiah Aldridge 4 Bear Creek William Arthur 25 4 Bear Creek S. B. Dozier 38 4 Bear Creek R. H. & Clarissa Best 53, 53 4 Bear Creek Wm Aldredge 4 Bear Creek Jesse W. Aldredge 22 4 Bear Creek Frederick Fields 20 4 Bear Creek D. A. Murphy 4 Bear Creek Richard Abbott 38 4 Contentnea D. H. Phillips 41 4 Contentnea Lany Dixon 34 4 Contentnea Travis King 35 4 Contentnea Winnie Wiggins 40 4 Contentnea F. M. Pittman 30 4 Contentnea J. C. Hartsfield 30 4 Kinston Josiah Sugg 26 4 Kinston Major Hill 26 4 Kinston Edith Barwick 37 4 Kinston John T. Coleman 29 4 Kinston-Town J. G. Herring 43 4 Kinston-Town E. H. Chadwick 29 4 Kinston-Town Sarah Stevenson 38 4 Kinston-Town L. B. Hardy 24 4 Kinston-Town J. M. Turner, guardian 46 4 Trent Daniel Hines 46 4 Trent John L. Lee 4 Trent Guardian to Rebecca Croom 16 4 Trent George Jones 45 4 Trent Nancy Williams 4 Woodington Stephen Waller 40 4 Woodington Jarman Becton 26 4 Woodington John Taylor 4 Woodington A. H. Evans 32 4 Woodington Stephen Cauly 38 4 Woodington William Sutton 35 4 Woodington Silas Lassiter 65 3 Bear Creek Thomas W. Dawson 40 3 Bear Creek Robert Daily 42 3 Bear Creek John W. Sutton 22 3 Bear Creek Alsa Gregory 53 3 Bear Creek Alexander Fields 3 Bear Creek Jeremiah Waters 32 3 Bear Creek J. H. Coward, guardian to 6 minors 3 Contentnea Arden Wiggins 34 3 Contentnea Augustus Moseley 37 3 Contentnea Administrator of N. Loftin estate 3 Kinston W. H. Hill 30 3 Kinston Patsy Henby 40 3 Kinston C. M. Griffin 30 3 Kinston-Town Richard W. Davis 3 Kinston-Town Guard. To W. F. Stanly 16 3 Kinston-Town W. B. Moye 19 3 Kinston-Town Stephen White 48 3 Kinston-Town W. L. Kilpatrick, guardian to 3 3 Sand Hill W. H. West, guardian to minors 3 Sand Hill Mr. C. C. Lawson 29 3 Trent Michael Tilghman 51 3 Trent James G. Davis 25 3 Trent Saml Croom 36 3 Trent Frank Jones 3 Trent W. C. R. Loftin 3 Woodington Jesse Holland 25 3 Woodington Chas. Fuller 63 2 Bear Creek Deborah Nethercutt 22 2 Bear Creek Wm H. Warters 27 2 Bear Creek H. H. Gibbons 40 2 Bear Creek Jesse H. Rouse 2 Bear Creek Wm Aldredge 2 Bear Creek Employ. From Canadys’ estate 2 Bear Creek M. Fields estate 2 Bear Creek Joseph Hines 2 Bear Creek Celis (?) 2 Bear Creek James Sutton 2 Bear Creek Wm L. Phillips 27 2 Contentnea Elizabeth Tuton 41 2 Contentnea Catherine Abbott and 4 others 45 2 Contentnea B. Langston 31 2 Contentnea Franklin Harvey 2 Contentnea R. J. Herring 37 2 Kinston Wiley Dupree 2 Kinston Henderson Loftin 43 2 Kinston James R. Hodges 14 2 Kinston W. C. Brown 29 2 Kinston-Town S. B. West 25 2 Kinston-Town Amos Shelfer 50 2 Kinston-Town Nicholas Hunter 41 2 Kinston-Town W. A. J. Pollock 45 2 Kinston-Town Jacob Daugherty 59 2 Sand Hill Smithy Davis 55 2 Trent Elizabeth Clark 50 2 Trent Jason Loftin 2 Woodington Ivy Becton 55 2 Woodington Eli Loftin 2 Woodington Wm H. Whitfield 48 2 Woodington Frank Cauly 26 2 Woodington Lott Croom 21 2 Woodington Josiah Bell 35 1 Bear Creek Drury Hill 69 1 Bear Creek D. C. Styron 24 1 Bear Creek Wm B. Reid 32 1 Bear Creek Elizabeth Whitley 52 1 Bear Creek Nancy Elliott 59 1 Bear Creek Levi Branson 28 1 Bear Creek Richard Hill 1 Bear Creek James Fields 45 1 Bear Creek Wilie Gurganus 46 1 Bear Creek Wilie Canadys 1 Bear Creek Benj. Canadys estate 1 Bear Creek Benj. M. Fields estate 1 Bear Creek Henry Fields 37 1 Bear Creek employ. From Parker 1 Bear Creek Benj. Warters 30 1 Bear Creek James M. Kirkpatrick 25 1 Bear Creek John Fields 40 1 Bear Creek William Dawson 62 1 Bear Creek Susan Daily 69 1 Bear Creek Joshua Daily 40 1 Bear Creek Hardy Sutton 25 1 Bear Creek Nancy Sutton 1 Bear Creek Winny Barwick 68 1 Bear Creek James Uzzell 45 1 Bear Creek Saml Chesnutt 33 1 Contentnea James P. Thomas 32 1 Contentnea Susan Dunn 36 1 Contentnea Margaret Phillips 67 1 Contentnea Walter Tuton 13 1 Contentnea Wm T. Harts 43 1 Contentnea Edward Brooks 48 1 Contentnea Wm M. Cox 8 1 Contentnea Joseph Allen and 8 others 1 Contentnea Jos. B. Taylor 28 1 Contentnea P. N. Pittman 33 1 Contentnea Lewis Kilpatrick 40 1 Contentnea Levi A. Mewborn 17 1 Contentnea James L. Cannady 41 1 Contentnea B. W. Cannady 5 1 Contentnea John Sutton 1 Kinston Celina Lewis 35 1 Kinston Oliver Bedard 40 1 Kinston Elizabeth Harper 67 1 Kinston F. G. Griffin 37 1 Kinston-Town Stephen Nunn 26 1 Kinston-Town J. A. Patterson 43 1 Kinston-Town H. M. Hines 30 1 Kinston-Town M. W. Campbell 46 1 Kinston-Town H. R. Strong 25 1 Kinston-Town A. R. Miller 30 1 Kinston-Town E. H. Dill 27 1 Kinston-Town Winny J. Miller 25 1 Kinston-Town W. H. Patrick 1 Kinston-Town R. C. Hay 37 1 Kinston-Town Bryan McCullen 39 1 Kinston-Town Dibble and Bro. 1 Kinston-Town B. C. West 28 1 Kinston-Town J. H. Stevenson 36 1 Kinston-Town James P. Bryan 30 1 Kinston-Town William Moore 26 1 Sand Hill Mary Daugherty 46 1 Sand Hill Evan E. Noble 29 1 Trent Wm. Davenport 48 1 Trent Winnie Stroud 45 1 Trent Constantine Whitfield 72 1 Trent F. G. Dupree 45 1 Trent Jesse Hardy 1 Trent Mary Hill 1 Woodington Mary __?__ 1 Woodington Zach Howard 54 1 Woodington Wilie Davis 48 1 Woodington William Cummings 30 1 Woodington Mary Becton 11 1 Woodington James A. Hood 36 1 Woodington Thomas Cauly 21 1 Woodington Robert A. Hill 37 1 Woodington William Sutton, as guardian 1 Woodington Much of the comparative information found in this and the following paragraphs was determined by consulting the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center of the University of Virginia as found on the world wide web. ______________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Francis R. Hodges [frhodges42@yahoo.com] ______________________________________________________________________