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Willoughby White (b. circa 1786 - d. circa 1835)
MSA SC 5496-51347
Maryland State Colonization Society Emigrant to Liberia from Caroline County, 1832

Biography:

A free born resident of Caroline County, Willoughby and his wife Sarah had six daughters: Mary, Maria, Amy, Catharine, Eleanor, and Hester.1 In 1832, the family was enumerated on the Caroline County Free Negro Census, where they indicated a desire to emigrate to Liberia.2 Later that year, on December 9, they departed from Baltimore, sailing to Monrovia, Liberia on the ship Lafayette. They arrived on February 7, 1883 but moved to Cape Palmas, Liberia the following year. There, Willoughby was elected sheriff on March 2, 1835. Shortly afterwards, he died suddenly in April 1835.3


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.
 

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