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Slaveholding in Newtown, Queens County — Data Overview
529 documented enslaver households, drawn from the 1790–1820 U.S. Federal Census and the surviving Newtown manumission record (1791–1827). Filter, sort, and search the full dataset below.
Ghosts of Newtown / Buried Twice — working research compilation, updated from project census transcriptions and Newtown_Manumissions_Master.xlsx.
Households With the Most Recorded Enslavement
By surname, summed across all census years documented (highest single-year count per household)
Total Enslaved Population, Newtown Census Returns
Sum reported across all documented households, by census year
New York’s gradual emancipation law took full effect July 4, 1827 — no Newtown household reports enslaved persons in the 1830 census. The decline shown reflects manumission, sale, death, and relocation across four decades, not a single event.
| № | Name▾ | 1790 | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | Max▾ | Occupation | Manumission Record |
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