Sam and Mima were named in the March 9, 1811 purchase of slaves from Richard Relf and Beverly Chew by John Palfrey that included my Gibson family (Aime, Tom, Bob, Joe, Ben & Caroline) . An image of that sale is included below:
The transcribed text pertaining to Sam and Mima reads thus: one other male Negro slave named Sam aged about thirty years together with one other female slave named Mima aged abut twenty-five years and two slave children of the said Sam and Mima towit: Sally and Anna and slave Maria niece of Mima.
Sally was my 3rd great-grandmother. She and James Morgan were the parents of Ambrose Morgan, my 2nd great-grandfather. This means that Anna was my great-great aunt, making her children: Moses, Charles, William and Caroline and their descendants my distant cousins!!! I traced the Woodlins out of curiosity without knowing that they were DNA kin. And now I’ve found an Ancestry DNA match that includes those names!
Surprise of all surprises!!
Read about Sam and Mima’s grand children who were freed in 1843 and lived in NY, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky.
Best,
My Maryland-Louisiana Roots 