The Enslaved Community

Amos

Amos was owned by Major William Croghan and was inherited by William Croghan Jr. after his death.

Amos was owned by Major William Croghan and was inherited by William Croghan Jr. after his death. There are few details, but it appears that Amos was then managed by George Hancock when he purchased Locust Grove from his brother-in-law, William Jr.

Later, Hancock writes that an enslaved man named Amos died in Louisville during the Cholera epidemic in 1832. This is the same epidemic that would take the life of Eliza Croghan Hancock, William Jr.’s sister and George Hancock’s wife.

This is not the same man that Dr. Croghan sold in New Orleans.