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Schuyler Salisbury

first name
Schuyler
last name
Salisbury
gender
male
birth, death year
1805 , 1832
first, last year in records
1817, 1832
confidence level
confirmed identity
freed status (year freed)
always free (1805)
enslaver(s)
location(s)
Deerfield, MA  
place of origin

Bio

lived in Deerfield, MA; bound out in 1826

Primary Source Entries for Schuyler Salisbury

Entry Source Vol Name Date entry id
Jermemiah Gray Dr for 1 pt Cider [brandy?] [.10] 1 lb sugar del Schyler Orlando Ware Day Book Volume 1 1817 Feb 14 1280
• .....a negro man residing in the said town of Deerfield by the name of Schuyler Salisbury unmarried person upwards of twenty one years of age who is able of body, but has no visible means of support...... Town of Deerfield, MA, Overseers of the Poor Box 9 1826 Apr 21 1340
• Schuyler, _____ May 14, 1832, a 27 y, CRI Deerfield Vital Records to 1850 Deaths 1832 May 14 830
• Church record notes Schyler Salisbury's death 1832 by pleurisy, at age 27 Leavitt, Sarah A., The African American Presence in 19th Century Deerfield Single 1832 1503

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