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Slightly Confident
There are 36 posts in this category.
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Anderson, John (Record # 13)
- Notes: 05/11/1776 Gov. Cuff resigned and Anderson took over as Black Governor. The transition was controversial.
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Barney (Record # 17)
- Notes: Barney was given a severe punishment for sexually maiming the 6 year old son of his master; he was whipped twice with 39 lashes and castrated. It is doubtful he could have survived the castration and the second whipping.
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Benn (Record # 22)
- Notes: "Ben, Indian, Hartford, complaint of his threatening Thos. Andrews with a knife," 11/06/1706 Crims and Misd 1:457b
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Betty (Record # 25)
- Notes: Baptised in Middletown but described in ch rec as "free Negro woman of Hartford"
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Caesar (Record # 44)
- Notes: Willed to Capt. Hosmer's widow, Ann, who died 1753. By that time it appears Caesar had died, unless he was sold.
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Candace (Record # 45)
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Castle, Ruben (Record # 48)
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Chirchbel, Cale (Record # 57)
- Notes: Cale Chirchbell was born in 1753. Captain Keith=former owner
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Demerant, Jack (Record # 74)
- Notes: Served in the French and Indian War, priv. service, 1755-56 and revolutionary war.
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Dick (Record # 77)
- Notes: Dick is willed to Cyrpian's widow, Mary for her life. Dick was either sold or died before 1770.
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Dige (Record # 79)
- Notes: Dige was bequeathed to his wife. Valued at £40.
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Drusus (Record # 92)
- Notes: With other Indians and Negro slaves were summoned to answer charges of nightwalking on November 10, 1710. The name Drusus was not the Native American name. It is a Roman name, the Father of the Emperor Claudius. It was common to use names from antiquity for Native American or African servants and enslaved people.
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Hagar (Record # 120)
- Notes: Possibly the daughter of Hagar who died in 1760. See below.
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Heber (Record # 126)
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Hero, Hagar (Record # 127)
- Notes: Hagar Hero was born in 1748; after 1805 (age 57) she does not appear in any census or city directory.
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Isabella (Record # 150)
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Lew (Record # 182)
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London (Record # 186)
- Notes: 14 years old at the time of purchase
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Margaret (Record # 201)
- Notes: Mentioned as the mother of Naomi.
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Mingoe (Record # 212)
- Notes: This child may have been Amy Pewompskin of Farmington, but that cannot be proven. Thomas Olmsted moved to the West Division in Hartford and was a founding member of that church. No record of Mingoe in his will.