Samuel Vaughan

Samuel Vaughan was the proprietor of the estate at Flamstead where Moses Baker preached regularly to a large congregation of slaves. Vaughan allowed Baker much freedom in ministering to the slaves in the early 1800s, except in the area of marriage, to which Vaughan had to give his assent. Vaughan received much criticism from other slave-owners about what was occurring on his estate, but he allowed it nevertheless. He wrote in 1802, “The labours of Mr. Baker have been pursued nearly eight years, viz. from the 15th of October, 1794, and with increasing advantages to the property and to the negroes.” Vaughan assisted in protecting Thomas Burchell from angry mobs in March 1832 during the riots directed at the missionaries and their chapels. For Vaughan’s statement on Baker, see Clarke, Memorials, 29; also Cox, History, 2:117.