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Town Negro

first name
Town
last name
gender
male
birth, death year
-- , --
first, last year in records
1761, 1763
confidence level
confirmed identity
freed status (year freed)
enslaved
enslaver(s)
Williams, Elijah;
location(s)
Deerfield, MA  
place of origin

Bio

Town was one of at least three people enslaved by Elijah Williams (1712-1771) of Deerfield, Massachusetts. From 1761-1765, Town had an account at Elijah Williams’s store where he bought a variety of small items. His purchases included a cotton handkerchief, fishing line, shoe buckles, various kinds of fabric and sewing notions, gloves, and a mouth harp, also called a Jew’s harp, or mouth harp. Town paid for his purchases with fox pelts, tobacco, and cash.

Primary Source Entries for Town Negro

Entry Source Vol Name Date entry id
• To Fish Line 0-0-10  Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1761 May 3037
• May 138 To Cotton Hankd 0-1-8  Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1761 May 1610
• 140 To Sundrys 0-5-0   1:9:3  Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1761 May 3041
•  May 139 To Sundrys 0-11-5  Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1761 May 3040
• To 3 1/2 Garlick 0-9-4  Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1761 May 3039
• To pair Shoe Buckls 0-1-0  Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1761 May 3038
• By red fox £0-2-8   11:2 Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1761 3032
• By Cash of Warner 10      2-1-[page torn]  Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1761 1611
• 284 By 22lb tobacco 0-5-1  Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1761 3031
• By 2 Fox 0-6-8 Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1761 3033
• By 18lb of Tobacco @ 4   0-6- [page torn]    1-3- [page torn] Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1761 3034
• By red fox £0-2-8 Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1761 3035
• 1764 To pd Hannah Catlin 0-9-4    1-10-7  Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1764 3042
• 1765 May 29 80 To Sundries 0-1-7-2 Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1765 May 29 3043
• 80 By 3 3/4 Tobacco 0-1-3 Elijah Williams Account Book Volume 5, 1759-1769 1765 3036
• Town Dr to 1 pr Buckels 1/ Elijah Williams Day Book Dec 14, 1757-Jan 22, 1765 1765 162
• to 3 1/4 yd thick felt - 10 - 3 Elijah Williams Day Book Dec 1, 1760 - July 27, 1762; Volume 12 1761 May 25 1969
• to 1 Scain mohare 6d - - 6 Elijah Williams Day Book Dec 1, 1760 - July 27, 1762; Volume 12 1761 May 25 1970
• Town negro Dr to 1 scain Silk - - 8 Elijah Williams Day Book Dec 1, 1760 - July 27, 1762; Volume 12 1761 May 25 1971
• to 1 3/4 yd Shelloon @ 2/8 - 4 - 8 Elijah Williams Day Book Dec 1, 1760 - July 27, 1762; Volume 12 1761 May 26 1973
• Town negro Dr to 10 Buttons @ 8d - - 7 Elijah Williams Day Book Dec 1, 1760 - July 27, 1762; Volume 12 1761 May 26 1972
• Town Negro Dr To a pare of gloves old tenor 1-4-0 To juse harp 0-2-6 John Russell Account Book 1763 - 1791, Vol 1 1763 Nov 646
• To 4 ounces of snuff 0 -2-6 total 0-18-0 John Russell Account Book 1763 - 1791, Vol 1 1763 1039

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