 The assessment shows that Shindler owned seven slaves of varying ages and sex.Whether or not these slaves occupied the building at Lot 17 is not known; Shindler also owned two tracts of farming land outside town where they may have lived and worked.After Shindler died, his property passed to his wife, Elizabeth Shindler, who is recorded in the 1869 Census as a 78-year-old woman living with her eldest son, John.