Zipporah
Age at death: 80
Age at death: 10/7/1795
Master / Mistress: Anne Burnham
Manumission date: 08/23/1764
Occupation: Servant
Additional Relationships: Lived with Cato, Prime (transcribed incorrectly as Lume or Quame) and Nunny
Most recent residence: Hartford, CT
Longest place of residence: perhaps Lebanon if she belonged to Anne Burnham's son Joseph Buckingham
Notes: Anne Burnham freed the servants; "Zipporah, a Negro Woman. [died of] Old Age. Dropsy. 80 years." on October 7, 1795. On the last page of Joseph Buckingham's (d. 1761) papers on Ancestry.com it lists Cato, Zipporah, Nunny and an infant, and Paul, as being Joseph's slaves. Since he never married or had children, his mother Anne inherited his estate. The First Church record of her burial says, "Siperah Negro, Burlal charges the Town."
Bibliographic sources: CPCR (Anne Burnham's will, 1764); HSCC, 381; CTCHRec, Reel 505, records and papers, 54 (spelled Siperah)
Anne Burnham freed the servants; “Zipporah, a Negro Woman. [died of] Old Age. Dropsy. 80 years.” on October 7, 1795. On the last page of Joseph Buckingham’s (d. 1761) papers on Ancestry.com it lists Cato, Zipporah, Nunny and an infant, and Paul, as being Joseph’s slaves. Since he never married or had children, his mother Anne inherited his estate. The First Church record of her burial says, “Siperah Negro, Burlal charges the Town.”
Ethnicity/Race/Tribal Affiliation:
Black (defined as Unknown origins, but listed as a person of color)
Gender:
Female
