Delaware’s only documented surviving log slave quarter was a 1 1/2 story framed building measuring 24 feet by 16 feet with a porch and interior walls of lath and plaster. Governor Ross had as many as fourteen slaves, some of whom probably lived in the mansion or other barns. After the Civil War and the end of slavery, the building was moved northeast of the mansion, and at its new location the roof was raised to create a two story house for tenant farmers. The Ross family owned the property until 1924, when bankruptcy forced them to give it up, and as the property passed to others the tenant farm was neglected and fell into disrepair. In 1989, a great-great-grandson of Governor Ross discovered the quarter while exploring the property, then owned by the University of Delaware. The university president appointed an eight member research team to document the 19th century log structure that had been incorporated into the two story tenant house, and in 1992 the University of Delaware donated the quarter to the Seaford Historical Society.