Peter Young

first name
Peter
last name
Young
gender
male
birth, death year
circa 1758 , 1848
first, last year in records
1848, 1848
confidence level
confirmed identity
freed status (year freed)
enslaved, then free
enslaver(s)
location(s)
Shelburne, MA  
place of origin

Bio

Shelburne, Massachusetts vital records lists Peter as being "a coloured man" and "slave once, pauper." He was born in Connecticut. He was a farmer and by the time he died, a widower. He might have had a son named Peter who died in 1804, at the age of one year.

Sources Consulted

Shelburne, Massachusetts vital records

 

Primary Source Entries for Peter Young

Entry Source Vol Name Date entry id
Young, Peter, "a colored man" ["slave once, pauper," C.R.I.], widr. farmer, b. Connecticut, old age, May 10, 1848, a. abt. 90 y. Shelburne Vital Records to 1850 Deaths 1848 May 10 1666

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