Joseph Hollinshead Jr. (b. 1751)
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This white person has 1 related event in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-05576
- Given Name
- Joseph
- Family Name
- Hollinshead
- Alternate Name
- Hollingshead
- Birth Date
- 1751
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
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Joseph Hollinshead Jr was a white man who resided in Burlington, New Jersey, in the late 18th century. Burlington County historical records variously record this family's name as Hollinshead or Hollingshead.
He was a clockmaker. He had in his household an enslaved young man named Peter Hill. Hollinshead taught Peter Hill the craft and business of clockmaking and then set him free when Peter was 27 years old. Peter Hill went on to establish a clockmaking business of his own and is known as the first African American clockmaker. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Places
- Burlington
- Enslaver of
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Peter Hill (1767-1820)
- References
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“Hill, Peter (1767-1820),” in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, by Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston (Norton, 1982), http://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer00loga, pages 310-311.
Silvio A. Bedini, “Peter Hill, the First African American Clockmaker,” in A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men’s History and Masculinity, ed. Darlene Clark Hine and Earnestine Jenkins, vol. 1, 2 vols. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), 252–73.
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1795-04-16 Manumission: Peter Hill (Role: Enslaver, Manumitter)