Joseph Pownall Scarlet^[1]

1821 - 1882  (61 years)

• Name	Joseph Pownall Scarlet
  Birth	15 Mar 1821	Robeson Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Miscellaneous	Sep 1851	Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  	Tried for Treason for participation in Christiana Anti-Slavery riot
  Death	8 Jul 1882	Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Burial	West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I10687	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	John Scarlet, IV,   b. 17 Jul 1780, Pennsylvania, USA d. 10 Aug 1826, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 46 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Pownall,   b. 25 Mar 1787, Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 26 Jun 1839 (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	20 Mar 1811	Sadsbury Friends Burial Ground, Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Family ID	F3223	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Amanda Elvina Cain,   b. 8 Apr 1818, Pennsylvania, USA d. 28 May 1890 (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	8 Feb 1843
  Children	1. John Scarlett,   b. 1844   d. 1844 (Age 0 years)   2. Joseph P Scarlett, Jr,   b. 11 Mar 1846, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 14 Jan 1912, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 65 years)   3. Edwin Way Scarlett,   b. 9 Dec 1847, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 23 Jan 1904, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 56 years)   4. Sophia Elizabeth Scarlett,   b. 26 Mar 1850, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 19 Jan 1906, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 55 years)   5. Mary E Scarlett,   b. 23 Aug 1853   d. 4 Aug 1941 (Age 87 years)   6. Ella A Scarlett,   b. 9 Oct 1855, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 23 Jun 1933 (Age 77 years)   7. William Scarlett,   b. 14 Jan 1858, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 20 Jun 1933 (Age 75 years)   8. Annie V Scarlett,   b. 20 Aug 1860
  Family ID	F3234	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2023

  
  

• Notes

  60y Married Grocer 5311 Paschall Street, 24th Ward 1882-07-19; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer "THE SLAVES' FRIEND The death of Mr. Joseph P. Scarlet in this city on Saturday revives an almost forgotten item of history, Mr. Scarlet being one of the three white men tried for treason before the Supreme Court for participation in the slave riot at Christiana in September, 1851. The suit against them was abandoned after the acquittal of Castner Hanway, who was also arrested on the same charge. Mr. Scarlet was engaged in the green grocery business and was aged sixty-two years. He was buried at West Laurel Hill." https://www.readingnaacp.org/woven-underground Scarlet Mills Scarlet Mills was one of the most well-known stations on the Pennsylvania Underground Railroad. “The Forrest,” the home of Quaker widow Elizabeth Scarlet and her son, Joseph, was in Robeson Township near Birdsboro, a remote region safe from slave hunters (Blockson 1981, 84-85). According to historian Wayne E. Homan, “[t]he Scarlet Mansion at Scarlet Mills...probably housed more Negro escapees over a longer period than any other Berks station stop” (1958, 114). While he was living in Lancaster County, Joseph Scarlet was indicted for participation in the Christiana Riot of 1851; “[h]e had galloped on horseback through...Christiana warning abolitionists that kidnappers had come to arrest several fugitives” (Blockson 1981, 84-85). Historian Wayne E. Homan explains that once, while visiting Pennington (Atglen), Joseph Scarlet saw an African American chained to a bar in a public house, awaiting trial in Lancaster. Later that evening, the captive was freed—the bar rail had been sawed through by someone. “For many years thereafter,” Homan reports, “a damaged pair of handcuffs hung on the wall of Scarlet's home” (1958, 117).

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Website: Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree (Reliability: 0). http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=53028956&pid=10688 [S3] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1964, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania, USA; Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1965; Certificate Number Range: 007001-010269 (Reliability: 0). [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87337897/joseph-p-scarlett.