Samuel Congo

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31551942/samuel-congo (also search under Attleboro Pa., Langhorne's prior name)

Samuel is shown as "Mulatto" in the 1850 census

Mount Olive was established when the cemetery behind the Bethlehem AME Church became full. Please see Bethlehem AME Cemetery. > Contact information: Brenda Cowan

• 226 W. Richardson Ave.
• Langhorne, PA 19047
  • https://www.bucksgen.org/index.php/component/chronoforms5/?chronofo...
• see also: https://soleburyhistory.org/on-line-exhibits/interactive-maps/under...

Perhaps the father of Samuel Congo who worked on the Delaware and was buried in the Slate Hill cemetery. See: Samuel Congo

other research

• Perhaps related to William Congo of New Hanover Township, Burlington County who appears in the 1830 Census with a host of other Blacks who are heads of households.

Sources of Interest

• “The Manumission Book of Monmouth County, N.J., 1791-1844” and “The Black Birth Book, 1804-1848.”
• “Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865” by Graham Russell Hodges, a history professor at Colgate University