Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)
Hester White (b. circa 1824 - d. 1833)
MSA SC 5496-51343
Maryland State Colonization Society Emigrant to Liberia from Caroline
County, 1832
Biography:
Hester was born free to Willoughby
and Sarah
White, freeborn blacks of Caroline County.1 In 1832, the
Whites were enumerated on Caroline County's Free Negro Census, where they
indicated a desire to emigrate to Liberia.2
That same year,
Hester emigrated from the United States to Liberia with her parents and
five sisters: Maria,
Mary,
Amy,
Catharine,
and Eleanor.3
Departing from Baltimore on December 7 or 9, 1832, they arrived in Monrovia,
Liberia on February 7, 1833 before settling in Caldwell, Liberia, where
Hester died of fever later that year.4
1. SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS (Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society), Manumission
Lists, 1832-1839, MSA SC 5977, Film Number M 13248-1, Emigrants Line 35-42.
2. SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS (Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society), Free Negro
Census, Caroline County, 1832, MSA SC 5977, Film Number M 13255-1, Lines
829-838.
3. SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS (Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society), Manumission
Lists, 1832-1839, MSA SC 5977, Film Number M 13248-1, Emigrants Line 35-42.
4. Hall, Richard L. On Afric’s Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia,
1834-1857. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2003), p. 444.
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