Population

settlement, origins, trades, slaves, immigrants

Prehistory

Land Tracts

Immigrant Names

Who Settled Georgetown?

Wilberforce

Black Households of Upper Georgetown

Upper Georgetown, 1874

Kinds of Work

Local Slaveholders

Slaves of John Threlkeld

Slaves of Margaret Barber

Georgetown’s Meat Industry

The Manumission of Ann Shorter and Her Children

In Bondage, on the Heights

Slave Burials in the Old College Ground

Murray Barker and His Descendants

Slave Burials in Holy Rood Cemetery

Drovers’ Rest

Emancipation on Georgetown Heights

The Georgetown Market War

Peter Colter and Daniel Scheele

Master Butchers of Georgetown

Dashiell Family Notes

Homiller Family Notes