Patience Gum
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Between 1745 and 1746 - Delaware 1
Death: Between 1821 and 1830 - Lawrence County, Indiana 1
Burial:
Events
• Alt. Birth, 1750
• Alt. Death, Lawrence County, Indiana, 1820
Parents
Father: John Gum 1
Mother: Alice Unknown 1
Father: John Gum 1
Mother: Alice
Spouses and Children
1. *John Chestnut
Marriage: Between 1765 and 1766 - Augusta County, Virginia 1
Children:
1. William Gordon Chesnut 1
2. Nancy Chestnut
3. William Gordon Chestnut
4. Ann Chestnut
5. John Chestnut Jr.
6. Jacob Chestnut
7. Benjamin Chestnut
8. Abraham Chestnut
Notes
General:
Notes from Knox County Order Book
FIRST COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER
At a Court of Oyer and Terminer called and held at the courthouse in
Barbourville by the justices of the Knox County Court on, the 26th day of
October 1805, for the trial of Silas (alias Watson Owens), a mulatto slave, the property of Henry Taulman, charged with breaking open the dwelling house of Julias Howard in the night time of the 21st of September last past, did burglariously and feloniously steal and carry away sundry goods and chattels of John Benneger and George Francisco both of the city of Baltimore, one coat of an olive colour, buttons lined with green baize, one blue superfine cloth coat, with gilt buttons and sundry other articles,
and also on the night of the 23rd of said September last past did as aforesaid burglariously and feloniously break open the dwelling house of Patience Chestnut and did then and there steal and carry away three hundred and thirty-three dollars the right and property of the Patience and Benjamin, her son, also one pair of saddle bags, and sundry articles of clothing,
at the same time and place and manner af'd did steal and carry away the sum of two hundred and thirty-nine dollars the right and property of John Sasley, of Wyth County, State of Virginia with other articles of clothing.
Present John Reddick, John Ballinger, Thomas Johnson and Richardson Herndon, they being the four oldest Justices.
The said Silas, a slave afs'd was led to the bar in custody of the jailer for burglary and thereupon arrained and on his arraignment pleated not guilty, and for his trial put himself upon God and his country, whereupon came a jury. To wit, John Neil, George Bunch, James Mahan, James Johnson, Henry Woodson, Robert Lyons, Robert McWhorter and William Baker who being elected, meet and sworn in, and upon the premises to speak, and having heard the evidence, upon their oaths do say, we of the jury find the prisoner guilty of the burglary before mentioned in manner and form as against hath been alledged, and thereupon he is remanded to jail. The prisoner again being led to the bar to receive his sentence and it being again demanded of him what he has to say, why the court should not proceed to give judgement and cause execution according to law, whereupon he saith that he hath nothing more to say than what he had said before, wherefore it is ordered by the court that on the twenty seventh day of November, being on Wednesday, that the said Silas be taken from the jail of this county between the hours of one and two in the evening to the lower end of Captain Richardson Herndon's Race Ground and there hung by the neck until he is dead, and that the sheriff of this county cause execution there of accordingly.
Therefore it is the further opinion of the said Court that the said Negro man Silas is worth one hundred pounds.
Courts of Oyer and Terminer were held for the trial of slaves, arrested for criminal acts and their offenses. This court was abolished when circuit courts were established. Under the law upon the execution of a slave his owner was reimbursed for his loss.