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Title
Compensation claim of Dr. Noble Young, May 2, 1862
Subject
Slaves--Emancipation--Washington (D.C.)
Description
At 1862, Dr. Noble Young, Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in Georgetown College's Medical Department, petitioned the federal government for compensation for the freedom of seven persons he owned, who were released by the 1862 DC Emancipation Act. Lucy Lancaster and her children, Henry, Matthew, Rachel, Henny, Eliza, and John, were included in Young's petition. Dr. Young estimated the family's worth at $8600, but the government only paid him $2,737.50 in compensation.
Dr. Noble Young was one of four doctors who helped establish Georgetown College's Medical Department in 1850. In the 1860 census, two more people, Flodoardo Howard and Johnson Elliot, are named as slaveowners. Dr. Young also worked as a physician in the United States Penitentiary in Washington, DC, for many years.
A "Certificate of Slaves Manumitted" from the DC Emancipation records, which is included here, reveals that Lucy Lancaster's children had the surname Douglass rather than Lancaster (as Young had indicated in his petition), and they appear in later census and other records with the surname Douglass rather than Lancaster. Lucy Lancaster is listed as a cook in Dr. Young's home in 1870, along with her children, Rachel Wright and Eliza Douglass.
Dr. Noble Young was one of four doctors who helped establish Georgetown College's Medical Department in 1850. In the 1860 census, two more people, Flodoardo Howard and Johnson Elliot, are named as slaveowners. Dr. Young also worked as a physician in the United States Penitentiary in Washington, DC, for many years.
A "Certificate of Slaves Manumitted" from the DC Emancipation records, which is included here, reveals that Lucy Lancaster's children had the surname Douglass rather than Lancaster (as Young had indicated in his petition), and they appear in later census and other records with the surname Douglass rather than Lancaster. Lucy Lancaster is listed as a cook in Dr. Young's home in 1870, along with her children, Rachel Wright and Eliza Douglass.
Creator
Civil War Washington
Source
Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia, 1862-1863, M520, National Archives. Available through Ancestry.com. See also Civil War Washington for a transcription of Young's petition.
Publisher
Georgetown Slavery Archive.
Date
1862-05-02
Contributor
Adam Rothman. Transcribed by Civil War Washington.
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Petition
Identifier
GSA217