MAGILL, H.P. - Putnam

A recent report on slavery in Indiana showed that there was one slave that lived as late as 1840 in Putnam County. The Greencastle Banner advertised to learn the details of this matter and P. H. Magill, of this city, replied as follows:

“My father, who with his mother, came to Indiana in 1836, brought this colored woman with them. She was the property of my grandfather, H. P. Magill, who lived in Lancaster County, Ky. She was not held as a slave in Indiana, but was a free woman. My father’s youngest sister married Caleb Osborne. The old woman lived with them forty years ago, as Mr. Lloyd says, and was a member of the M. E. Church at Pisgah, near Portland Mills.”