Caroline C. Scott (b. circa 1816 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-51369
Maryland State Colonization Society Emigrant to Liberia from Talbot
County, 1835
Biography:
Caroline Chambers Scott was a freeborn resident of Talbot County.1 She emigrated to Liberia with her husband, William Scott, a manumitted slave who was also from Talbot County. Anna Maria Scott, another manumitted slave from Talbot County, appeared to travel with them and may have been related to William. The Scotts departed from Baltimore on June 28, 1835 on the schooner Harmony, arriving at Cape Palmas, Liberia on August 23, 1835.2, 3 William Scott died shortly after his arrival in Liberia. By 1837, Caroline's shipboard companion, Anna Maria, was married to Thomas Jackson, a mason.4
Caroline, too, found a husband in Liberia. On February 2, 1837, she married Daniel Banks, a rough carpenter.5, 6 Less than three months later, she gave birth to their daughter, Georgiana, on April 29, 1837.7 By the 1840 census, and perhaps as early as 1839, Daniel Banks was dead.8, 9 Teenager Ellen Gibson lived with the Banks from 1838 to at least 1840, probably helping Caroline care for the young Georgiana.10, 11 In 1843, Ellen was once again with living her aunt, Rebecca Gibson Delaney.12 Ellen's departure may explain why Caroline and Georgiana were living with or near Anna Maria Scott Jackson and her husband in 1843.13 Caroline later married Henry Pinkett, a ship carpenter who arrived in Liberia on the Globe on February 11, 1843.14, 15 The father of four children, Henry was widowed before 1848 when the census shows him married to Caroline.16, 17 Caroline and Henry were still married and living with their children as of the 1852 census.18
2. Ibid.
3. Hall, Richard L. On Afric’s Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia, 1834-1857. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2003), 451.
4. Ibid, 451, 452.
5. Maryland Colonization Journal, September 1837, Vol. 1, No.12, p. 52.
7. Hall, 451.
10. Ibid.
12. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Papers of the Maryland State Colonization Society), Subscribers Reports Census, 1817-1902, MSA SC 5977, Film Number M 13247-1, 1843 a Census.1843 b Ellen Gibson.
14. Hall, 451, 480.
16. Ibid.
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