Skip to main content

Autobiography and Reminiscence of Alvin Aaron Coffey, Mills Seminary P.O., 1901

Thumbnail for Autobiography and Reminiscence of Alvin Aaron Coffey, Mills Seminary P.O., 1901
View
@ Society of California Pioneers

Description

Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the readerAutobiography & Reminiscence of Alvin Aaron Coffey, Mills Seminary, P.O., 1901. The Society of California PioneersAlvin Aaron Coffey, born on July 14th, 1822, began life as the slave of Margaret Cook of Mason County, Kentucky. His parents were Larkin Coffey and Nellie Cook. He married Mahala Tindall on October 9, 1842 in Kentucky. Cook sold Coffey in 1834 to Henry H. Duvall and in 1846, Duvall sold Coffey to Dr. Bassett for $600. Coffey worked on Bassett's farm for 3 years, going to California with him in 1849. The Bassett party left St. Louis on April 2, 1849, for St. Joseph leaving there on May 5th. The group endured a cholera epidemic and at Deer Creek (Sacramento Valley), they divided up the wagons. The Bassett party moved to Clear Creek and began dry-digging where Coffey worked for Bassett for 13 months in Cal. saving $616 to buy his freedom. Bassett took Coffey's money travelling with him back to Missouri, via New Orleans, and sold him again for the amount of $1000. Coffey returned to California in 1854 and lived in Shasta County...
Type:
Text
Contributors:
Coffey, Alvin Aaron, 1822-1902, creator
Rights:
Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader.
View Original At:

Record Contributed By

Society of California Pioneers

Record Harvested From

California Digital Library

Keywords

  1. African American Pioneers
  2. African Americans
  3. Biography
  4. California
  5. Coffey, Alvin Aaron
  6. Freedmen
  7. Frontier And Pioneer Life
  8. Gold Mines And Mining
  9. History
  10. Overland Journeys To The Pacific
  11. Pioneers
  12. Pioneers, Black
  13. San Francisco
  14. Slave Narratives
  15. Slaver

Related Content

Autobiography and Reminiscence of Roberts Vandercook, San Francisco, 1901 Autobiography and Reminiscence of Jesse Healy, (Deceased), 1901 Autobiography and Reminiscence of Edward Percy Reed, San Jose, 1901 Autobiography and Reminiscence of Samuel Wirt Holladay, San Francisco, 1901 Autobiography and Reminiscence of William Kennedy Casement, Elmhurst, Cal., 1901 The Negro trail blazers of California : a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley, and from the diaries, old papers and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California : it is a true record of facts, as they pertain to the history of the pioneer and present day Negroes of California Aunt Sally: Or, The Cross The Way of Freedom: A Narrative of the Slave-Life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man Last of the Pioneers: Or, Old Times in East Tenn., Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years) A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley, a colored man, local preacher and missionary, : who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three at the North; who never went to school a day in his life, and only commenced to learn his letters when nineteen years and eight months old; the emancipation of his mother and her three children; how he learned to read while living in a slave state, and supported himself from the time he was nine years old until he was twenty-one Rambles of a runaway from Southern slavery / (By Henry Goings.) The covered wagon Gunpowder Jim, or, the mystery of Demon Hollow / by J. Milton Hoffman. Autobiography of David Lewis [microform]: 1854
Autobiography and Reminiscence of Capt. Joseph S. Garcia, San Francisco, 1904 A slave's adventures toward freedom : not fiction, but the true story of a struggle The life of Charles Freeman, once an American slave Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. Twelve years a slave : the thrilling story of a free colored man, kidnapped in Washington in 1841, sold into slavery, and after a twelve years' bondage, reclaimed by state authority from a cotton plantation in Louisiana
Download JSON