Tag: Logan

African American Slave Born in 1686 Dies at Age 116 in 1802!

By Thomas Jay Kemp on June 5, 2015

While doing genealogy research recently in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives, I came upon the obituary of a woman identified only as “a female slave named Alice,” who died at Bristol, Pennsylvania, at the remarkable age of 116! Alice was only 10 when she was taken from her parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Bristol, Pennsylvania... (Read More)

A Wife & Mother’s Plea in the Newspaper after the War of 1812

By Thomas Jay Kemp on February 1, 2013

The War of 1812 had been over for more than a year, and Catharine Logan had heard nothing from her husband or son since they marched off to fight the British in the summer of 1812. For four years she’d been waiting and hoping for news about her missing family…so she wrote a letter... (Read More)