Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Sarah White (b. circa 1795 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-51346
Maryland State Colonization Society Emigrant to Liberia from Caroline County, 1832

Biography:

A free born resident of Caroline County, Sarah White was married to Willoughby White with whom she had six daughters: Mary, Maria, Amy, Catharine, Eleanor, and Hester.1 The Whites were enumerated on the 1832 Caroline County Free Negro Census, where they indicated a desire to emigrate to Liberia.2 On December 9, 1832, the Whites sailed from Baltimore to Monrovia, Liberia on the ship Lafayette. They arrived in Monrovia on February 7, 1833 but soon settled in Caldwell, Liberia. The following year they moved to the settlement at Cape Palmas, where Willoughby died suddenly in 1835.3 It is not clear if Sarah also passed away. At various times in the 1830s and 1840s, her daughters Catharine, Mary, and Maria were living together, suggesting that Sarah was not able to take care of them.4, 5


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. Hall, Richard L. On Afric’s Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia, 1834-1857. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2003), p. 443.

4. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society), Subscribers Reports Census, 1817-1902, MSA SC 5977, Film Number M 13247-1, 1839 Census.

5. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society), Subscribers Reports Census, 1817-1902, MSA SC 5977, Film Number M 13247-1, 1843 Census.
 

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