Lois Way

first name
Lois
last name
Way
gender
female
birth, death year
circa 1725 , --
first, last year in records
--, --
confidence level
confirmed identity
freed status (year freed)
unknown
enslaver(s)
location(s)
Hadley, MA  
place of origin

Bio

Lois was married to a formerly enslaved man, Ralph Way, Sr. of Hadley, Massachusetts. They had at least one child, Ralph, Jr., who was born about 1740. 

The marriage did not last. In October of 1751, the Massachusetts General Court, in a rare decision, granted the couple a divorce because Lois had cheated on her husband with a man named Boston, resulting in a son. Lois might have married and moved to eastern Massachusetts.

Sources Consulted

History of Hadley, Massachusetts, Sylvester Judd, 1905, p. 239