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Wiggins with his former enslaver, General James N. Bethune Tom spent the next ten years as a ward of Eliza and her husband, who divided their time between New York City and New Jersey's Navesink Highlands .
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Charity was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Prebble. She married Edward Wiggins. They were the parents of: 1. Thomas 2. Nancy 3. Margaret 4. Eleanor 5. Mary 6. Charity 7. Edward 8. Elizabeth 9. John
Source: #S26Page: 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Wellsburg, Brooke, Virginia; Page: 98; NARA Roll: M33_132; Image: 75Source: #S35Source: #S36Page: Year: 1810; Census Place: Brooke, Virginia; Roll: 66; Page: 685; Image: 0181426; Family History Library Film: 00675Source: #S35Preble-155 was created by Gary Nicholsonthrough the import of John Harris Elson 2nd_2015-03-04.ged on Mar 4, 2015.
- Female
- February 17, 1745
- Edward Wiggins
- July 1, 1832
Jul 19, 2021 · Bethune, a lawyer from Columbus, Georgia, who had become a general during the Creek War of 1832, purchased Charity, her husband Domingo, and Thomas and his two older siblings. The General changed Thomas’s name to Thomas Greene Bethune.
Thomas was born autistic and without sight on May 25, 1849 to Mungo and Charity Wiggins, two Georgia plantation slaves owned by Wiley Edward Jones. His family was sold soon after to Colonel James Neil Bethune, and Tom was “thrown in as a bargain.”
Mar 14, 2021 · Wiggins made a bold plea to Gen. James Neil Bethune, a fiercely proslavery lawyer and newspaper editor in Columbus, Ga., to keep her family together; probably out of pity, he agreed and...
Sep 13, 2019 · Blind Tom, as he was called, was an African American musical piano prodigy born on 24 May 1849 on a plantation owed by Wiley Edward Jones in Harris County, Georgia, to Charity and Domingo “Mingo” Wiggins.
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Mar 5, 2000 · To forestall the seemingly inevitable loss of income that would come from Emancipation in 1863, Bethune persuaded Charity and Mingo Wiggins to sign an indenture agreement that bound Tom to...
