1850 Census - African Americans in Dauphin County

T Surnames

• Tailor, Curry (Taylor)
  location: Harrisburg, East Ward
  visitation (house/family): 145/147
  description (age/sex/color): 48/M/M
  occupation: Oysterman
  value of real estate owned:
  place of birth: Pennsylvania
  notes:  Egle refers to him as a "well-remembered caterer." (Notes and Queries, Third Series, Volume II, CXXX, p.287)
  census page: 85B
  other members in household:
  • Elizabeth Tailor
    description: 40/F/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:
  • Walter Tailor
    description: 22/M/M
    occupation: Waiter
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:
  • Samuel Tailor
    description: 19/M/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:
  • Susan Tailor
    description: 4/F/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:
  • Zilla Ann Tailor
    description: 2/F/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:
  • James Milburn
    description: 38/M/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:

• Tarpin, Nelson T.
  location: Harrisburg, West Ward
  visitation (house/family): 465/516
  description (age/sex/color): 33/M/M
  occupation: Clergyman Met. (Methodist)
  value of real estate owned: (Tenant)
  place of birth: Delaware
  notes:
  census page: 35A
  other members in household:
  • Harriett do
    description: 30/F/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes: "Cannot read and write."
  • Martha do
    description: 12/F/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes: "Attended school within the year."
  • Jeremiah do
    description: 10/M/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes: "Attended school within the year."
  • Mary do
    description: 7/F/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes: "Attended school within the year."
  • David do
    description: 5/M/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:
  
  other families in dwelling:
  • Rebecca Belt
    visitation (house/family): 465/517
    description: 53/F/B
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes: "Cannot read and write."
  • Martha do
    description: 22/F/B
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes: "Cannot read and write."
  • Henrietta Belt
    description: 17/F/B
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes: "Attended school within the year."
  • Phoeba do
    description: 24/F/B
    occupation: Cook
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes: "Attended school within the year."

• Thomas, Franklin
  description: 5/M/M
  place of birth: Pennsylvania
  notes: Franklin and Joanna Thomas are two children living in the household of Berry, John (see listing)
• Joanna Thomas
  description: 2/F/M
  place of birth: Pennsylvania
  notes:

• Thomas, Margaret
  location: Harrisburg, West Ward (496/553)
  description (age/sex/color): 18/F/B
  occupation: (none listed) possibly a household servant
  place of birth: Maryland
  notes: In the household of Alexander Piper, clerk. "Cannot read and write."
  census page: 37B

• Thomas, Richard
  description: 25/M/M
  occupation: Shoemaker
  place of birth: Virginia
  notes: Living in the household of Chester, George (see listing).

• Thompson, Betsey
  location: Harrisburg, East Ward
  visitation (house/family): 11/11
  description (age/sex/color): 35/F/M
  occupation: (none listed) possibly hotel employees
  value of real estate owned: 300
  place of birth: Pennsylvania
  notes: Enumerated at Wells Coverly's hotel.  This was the Union Hotel, located on the southeast corner of Market Square and Blackberry Alley.
  census page: 75A
  other members in household: All African Americans enumerated at this hotel: Joshua Mills, John Gaiter, Mark Gaiter, Rachel Cox, Hannah Kelley, Betsey Thompson, Sarah Atlee, Adeline Dromiry and Teresa Smith.

• Thompson, Charles
  location: Harrisburg, North Ward
  visitation (house/family): 207/265
  description (age/sex/color): 48/M/B
  occupation: (none listed)
  place of birth: Pennsylvania
  notes: Living in dwelling of Childs, John (see listing).
  census page: 68A
  other members in household:
  • Margaret Thompson
    description: 26/F/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:
  • David Thompson
    description: 1/M/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:

• Thompson, Edward
  location: Harrisburg, North Ward
  visitation (house/family): 200/255
  description (age/sex/color): 34/M/M
  occupation: Laborer
  place of birth: Maryland
  notes: Living in dwelling of Brown, James (see listing)  Edward Thompson was an anti-slavery activist.  One of two persons who paid the legal fees of Charles C. Rawn in the August 1850 fugitive slave case--the other was William M. "Pap" Jones--Thompson and another Harrisburg African American, James A. Williams, also brought charges of kidnapping against constables Solomon Snyder and John Sanders, and again hired Rawn, in a November 1850 case involving fugitives who were taken directly to Baltimore instead of before Commissioner McAllister for a hearing.
  census page: 67B
  other members in household:
  • Sarah Thompson
    description: 32/F/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:
  • Edward Thompson
    description: 5/M/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:
  • James Thompson
    description: 3/M/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:

• Thompson, James
  description: 19/M/M
  occupation: Barber
  place of birth: Pennsylvania
  notes: Living in household of Bradley, Henry, barber (see listing)

• Thompson, Rachael
  location: Harrisburg, West Ward (419/468)
  description (age/sex/color): 35/F/B
  occupation: (none listed)
  place of birth: Pennsylvania
  notes: In the household of John W. Fitch, livery keeper. "Cannot read and write."
  census page: 31B

• Thompson, Rosett
  location: Harrisburg, West Ward (432/481)
  description (age/sex/color): 55/F/M
  occupation: (none listed)
  place of birth: Pennsylvania
  notes: In the household of Henry Omit, hotel keeper. Another African American in the same household is Hanna Gibson.
  census page: 32B

• Thompson, Samuel
  location: Harrisburg, North Ward
  visitation (house/family): 1887/235
  description (age/sex/color): 31/M/B
  occupation: Laborer
  place of birth: Pennsylvania
  notes: Living in dwelling of Scott, James (see listing). "Cannot read and write."
  census page: 66A
  other members in household:
  • Eliza Thompson
    description: 25/F/B
    place of birth: Maryland
    notes:
  • William Thompson
    description: (no age recorded)/M/B
    place of birth: Maryland
    notes:
  • Alexander Thompson
    description: 3/M/B
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:
  • Ann Freedom
    description: 54/F/B
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:

• Titus, Stephen
  location: Harrisburg, West Ward (417/466)
  description (age/sex/color): 19/M/B
  occupation: Servant
  place of birth: New York
  notes: In the household of Louis Blanch, reporter. Blanch and his family were tenants, all New York born except the youngest child, Emma Jane, 1 year old. There appears to be a mark in the column signifying that Titus "cannot read and write."
  census page: 31A

• Toop, William
  location: Harrisburg, East Ward
  visitation (house/family): 108/108
  description (age/sex/color): 30/M/M
  occupation: Oysterman
  value of real estate owned:
  place of birth: Maryland
  notes: There is a mark in the column indicating that one child "attended school within the year," but it does not identify the child.
  census page: 81B
  other members in household:
  • Elizabeth Toop
    description: 26/F/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:
  • Clara Toop
    description: 3/F/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:
  • Jane Toop
    description: 1/F/M
    place of birth: Pennsylvania
    notes:

• Trusty, Eliza
  location: Harrisburg, West Ward (458/510)
  description (age/sex/color): 18/F/B
  occupation: (none listed)
  place of birth: Pennsylvania
  notes: Living in hotel kept by Edward Perkins, apparently as staff. Other African Americans living here are Martha Batten, Alfred Batten and Joseph Scott.
  census page: 34B

• Tums, Samuel
  location: Harrisburg, North Ward (23/24)
  description (age/sex/color): 27/M/B
  occupation: Laborer
  place of birth: Maryland
  notes: In the household of John Sanders. Possibly a boarding house. Other African Americans listed at this dwelling: William Clark, Maria Marks, Thomas Brise, Peter Jacobs, Henery Williams, James Dehaven and William Franks. "Cannot read and write."
  census page: 49A

• Turner, Perry
  location: Harrisburg, South Ward
  visitation (house/family): 46/52
  description (age/sex/color): 62/M/B
  occupation: Laborer
  value of real estate owned: (Tenant)
  place of birth: Maryland
  notes: "Cannot read and write."
  census page: 3B
  other members in household:
  • Mary do
    description: 38/F/B
    place of birth: Penna.
    notes: "Cannot read and write."
  • Elizabeth do
    description: 20/F/B
    place of birth: Penna.
    notes: "Cannot read and write."

• Tyler, Hanna
  description: 60/F/M
  place of birth: Maryland
  notes: "Cannot read and write." Grandmother of noted African American landscape artist Grafton Tyler Brown. Living in household of Brown, Thomas (her son-in-law). (see listing)

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