Barney
Attack by Barney (unnamed) and his sentence, American Weekly Mercury, January 12, to January 18, 1743/4
- Record ID #: 17
- Ancestry tree: Barney Family Tree
- Confidence Level: Slightly Confident
- gender: Male
- Race/ethnicity: Black
- Age at death: 17
- Date of death: 1744
- Master / Mistress: Jonathan Allyn (Alling)
- Additional Relationships: Allyn later owned a man named Pompey, whom he manumitted and gave 20 pounds. It isn't known whether Barney's time with Allyn overlapped with Pompey's.
- Relationship tree link: https://relationshiptree.org/graph/maravela/gallows
- Most recent residence: Middletown, CT
- Longest place of residence: Middletown, CT
- 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.
- Bibliographic sources: Goodheart, 63; CCR, 8: 578-579; CT Arc., Crim & Misd., Volume IV, doc. 67.
