Black Utsman family On The 1880 Census in Salisbury, NC
Stephanie Hamilton Dwyer: I have information I would like to pass on in hopes of helping someone. I am the family historian and my ancestors had a very unusual surname, Utzman or Utsman.
I discovered a black Utsman family on the 1880 census in Salisbury, NC, where my ancestors are from.
I have connected the man in the census, Allen Utsman, to a man who is listed in the will of John Utzman (1780-1851). I am attaching his will, where all 4 of his enslaved persons are listed by name (Jake, Allen, Dice, and her daughter, Sarah).
Also, the 1850 slave schedule where they are listed by age, and the 1880 census where the Utsman family I referred to are mentioned.
Wills, 1757-1959; Author: North Carolina. Superior Court (Rowan County);
Probate Place: Rowan, North Carolina
"United States, Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 ", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVCT-YZN
Sat Jan 18 05:40:50 UTC 2025), Entry for and John Utzman, 1850.
Year: 1880; Census Place: Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina; Roll: 981;
Page: 425c; Enumeration District: 246