daughter of Peter Newport

first name
last name: Newport
gender: female
birth, death year: 1775 , 1775
first, last year in records: 1775, 1775
confidence level: confirmed identity
freed status (year freed): enslaved
enslaver(s): Billings, Joseph;
location(s): Hatfield, MA
place of origin: Hatfield, MA

Bio

This unnamed daughter was the youngest child of Azubah and Peter Newport, Sr. They were enslaved to Joseph Billings of Hatfield, Massachusetts. The daughter was born on April 26, 1775, and died on May 13. Azubah had died on May 1, probably from complications giving birth.

Sources Consulted

"'His Own Proper Negro Slave': Amos Newport & his Descendants in Hatfield, Williamsburg & Amherst", Eric W. Weber, 2014