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Summer Young & Monday McConn, Screven County, Georgia

10/12/2021

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Labor Contract 1866 Screven County, Georgia page 1

​The labour contracts between formerly enslaved people and former slaveholders can give us vital information for the period 1865-1870. This is just one example. This contract was undertaken by Summer Young, Monday McConn, Cuffeee, Mike,  Ned and their families with Hope Brannen (1844-1894) of Screven County, Georgia. It makes for harrowing reading as it describes a life which is simply slavery by another name. The document clearly identifies Hope Brannen, an Irish descendant slaveholder, as the former enslaver of Summer Young, Monday McConn and Cuffee. Mike had been enslaved by M L Boykin. Ned had been enslaved by M Aldridge of South Carolina.
Hope Brannen Sr. died in 1862. His  headstone proudly states that he served in the Confederate States Army. In 1860, Hope Brannen Sr. enslaved twenty eight human beings ranging in age from a man aged 39 years to a new-born baby. His son also named Hope, took on the running of the plantation after his father's death.  

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Sources:
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Labor Contract 1866
familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9GF-PCN1?i=828&cc=2331267
US Federal Census 1850 Slave Schedules ( Hope Brannen Senior, Screven County)
www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKVD-XFPZ
Memorial
www.findagrave.com/memorial/61197352/hope-brannen

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Labor Contract 1866 Screven County, Georgia page 2
In 1870 Monday McConn, his wife Celia and their children were still living in Screven County, Georgia.  Summer Young, his wife Lucy and their children were also living in Screven County. It is important to note that both Celia and Lucy were rcorded as born in South Carolina as was Sophia E Humphries, the wife of Hope Brannen Sr. So there is a possibility that Celia and Lucy came to Georgia as part of the dowry of Sophia E Humphries in 1829. Sophia's mother was Sarah Cone which again raises the question of an older family connection as Monday chose the name McConn after Emancipation.
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Sources:
1870 US Federal Census Monday McConn
www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XXZQ-GLM?i=18&cc=1438024
1870 US Federal Census Summer Young
​www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XXZQ-RC5?i=22&cc=1438024
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labor Contract 1866 Screven County, Georgia page 3

In 1880, Monday McConn was living with his wife Lucy and children Henry, Strike, Wallace, Wick and Mary. Next door, Joice McConn and his wife Gracie lived.
The 1900 Census, once again, finds Monday McConn living in Screven County, Georgia with his wife Lucy, and  children John, widowed son Toby, married daughter Florence Scott, granddaughter Manuel Scott, grandson William Scott, daughter-in-law Anna Jasper, and nephew James Thomas. Lucy McConn is recorded as the mother of eight children of whom six were still living in 1900.


Sources
1880 US Federal Census  www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8GT-B9N
1900 US Federal Census  www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-67MQ-K2Y

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US Federal Census 1900, Screven County, Georgia


Summer Young was living in District 259, (the same District that Monday McConn was living in at that time) Screven County Georgia in 1880 with his wife Lucy. Also present in his household was Willis, Samuel, Jacob, Cuffie, Tarsh, Ella, Gideon, Ninevah and an unnamed infant. 
In 1900, Summer Young was living in Effingham, Georgia with his wife whose name is illegible, son Summer J Young and daughter Elizabeth.
Summer's sons, Mack Young and Samuel Young died in Georgia in 1940.


Sources
1880 US Federal Census www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8GT-1K9
1900 US Federal Census www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3NJ-6R5
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1940 Death Certificate, Mack Young www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJX9-XT5X
1940 Death Certificate, Samuel Young www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJX9-FBZC
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1880 US Federal Census, Screven County, Georgia
Notes
As always if you can contribute some new information or clear up any of the unresolved questions we would be delighted to hear from you. Descendants of these families are in contact with the project. If you too are a descendant please leave a contact email below so that we can pass it on. Twenty eight people were enslaved by Hope Brannen Senior in 1850 but these are the only names we have uncovered as yet.
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19 Jan 2022.
Many thanks to Angiela Tillman, a descendant of Summer (Sumner) & Lucy Young, who has recovered the following  names  recorded in The Daily Constitutionalist and Republic newspaper 19 Dec 1846. She has also discovered that in 1831, Hope Brannen Senior was a Justice of the Court in Screven County, Georgia, Research is ongoing into what became of these families but it is proving difficult to find the court documents concerning the Sheriff's Sale if indeed they have survived. Further information will be added as it is uncovered.


Names of those enslaved by Hope Brannen 1846
Sam
Handy
John
Isaac

Green
Quacco
Monday
Jinny
Judith
Betta
Hannah and her two children 
Fanny

Cuffee
Anaca
Mary
Emily.

Kit,
enslaved by David Freeman
Caroline and Joe, enslaved by Lewis Conner

The litigants named are 
John S Maner
Curtis Humpreys
A A Smetts
Edward J Black
Granvil Beoil.

David Freeman
A S Jones
A B Lovett, Adm'r
W L Lovett
Hampton Oliver
Lewis Conner
Ann D Bryen, guardian
John Dillon
George W Best


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The Daily Constitutionalist and Republic 19 Dec 1846
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The Daily Constitutionalist and Republic 19 Dec 1846
2 Comments

    Authors
    Martine Brennan M.A. Curator
    Contributors
    ​Steve Harper
    ​Angiela Tillman

    Not every Irish man and woman who found their way to North America before 1862 became a slaveholder. However a number of their children did. This blog will be about those people, the American-born children of Irish parents who adopted the slaveholding practises of their neighbours. Discussions with other researchers who have information about Irish descendant slaveholders has identified the need for a central space for this research. If you would like to contribute a short blog containing information about African American people enslaved by Irish descendant slaveholders, please use the contact page on this website. Thank you,
    ​Martine Brennan M.A.

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