Portrait of Jemima Pearsall Castleman
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Portrait of Jemima Pearsall Castleman
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Jemima Pearsall Castleman married Johannes "Lewis" Castleman in Frederick, Virginia, in 1765, when she was approximately fifteen years of age. She was the mother of eight children that were born between 1770 and 1797. She came to the frontier with her husband sometime between 1787 and 1800. They lived on a farm along Clear Creek in Woodford County that included a tannery and a distillery that made apple brandy. The Castlemans enslaved ten persons in 1810 and eighteen persons in 1819.
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2021.24.2
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“Portrait of Jemima Pearsall Castleman,” The Filson Historical Society Digital Projects, accessed October 4, 2024, https://filsonhistorical.omeka.net/items/show/5812.