Prince

first name
Prince
last name
gender
male
birth, death year
-- , 1752
first, last year in records
1741, 1741
confidence level
confirmed identity
freed status (year freed)
enslaved
enslaver(s)
Barnard, Joseph; Wells, Thomas;
location(s)
Deerfield, MA  
place of origin

Bio

In 1741, Dr. Thomas Wells hired out Prince to clear land for Joseph Barnard. Two years later, Dr. Wells sold "his Negro fellow" to Barnard for £160. In 1745, Barnard paid Wells's widow Sarah for "princes Bcos [bedclothes], Bedsted and Cord and a Blankit."

Barnard earned money by hiring Prince out to work for others. In 1744, Barnard bought him a coat, breeches, and other items. He also paid for Dr. Thomas Williams to treat Prince after a fall he took in the spring of 1749. Prince was a musician, as evidenced by a 1743 entry in Elijah Williams's daybook noting that he paid cash for a violin. When he escaped the fall of 1749, he took the violin with him, among other things. Joseph Barnard placed a notice in the Boston Post-Boy offering a reward for Prince's capture but by July of 1750, he was once again in Deerfield under Barnard's control. Two years later, Barnard paid carpenter James Crouch for making Prince's coffin.

Primary Source Entries for Prince

Entry Source Vol Name Date entry id
1744 May 1 to Clearing Land one Day at ye Great River myselfe & prince... 16/    Joseph Barnard Account Book Joseph Barnard Account Book 1737-1785 1744 May 1 1160
2 to myselfe & prince a Day 16/  0 16 0 Joseph Barnard Account Book Joseph Barnard Account Book 1737-1785 1744 May 2 1161
4 to Ditto myselfe & prince a day 16/  0 16 0 Joseph Barnard Account Book Joseph Barnard Account Book 1737-1785 1744 May 4 1162
7 to Do. myselfe & Prince one Day 16    0 16 0 Joseph Barnard Account Book Joseph Barnard Account Book 1737-1785 1744 May 7 3227
9 to Do myselfe & prince a Day 16/  0 16 0 Joseph Barnard Account Book Joseph Barnard Account Book 1737-1785 1744 May 9 3228
10 to Do myselfe & Prince a Day 16/  0 16 0 Joseph Barnard Account Book Joseph Barnard Account Book 1737-1785 1744 May 10 3229
12 to myselfe Abner & prince a Day   1 4 0 Joseph Barnard Account Book Joseph Barnard Account Book 1737-1785 1744 May 12 3230
to myselfe & prince a Day to rite up the fence at Green Lott & moa Brake  18/ Joseph Barnard Account Book Joseph Barnard Account Book 1737-1785 1745 Jun 1175
Pd Doct Wells for Prince four days to Clear land on Cors's Island 1-10-0 Joseph Barnard Day Book 5/1737 - 8/1785 1741 May 28 1148

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