Margaret was born free to formerly ensalved Amos, Sr. and Bathsheba Hull of Northampton, Massachusetts. She was the youngest of four children, born the same year that her father died. As a widow, her mother was a landowner, but in 1767, Bathsheba was forced to sell her home to the town or see her house destroyed. She opted to sell and moved back to Northampton proper. Her second husband, Philemon Lee, had been "warned out" of Northampton and was in prison in nearby Springfield. In New England towns, people who couldn't support themselves were warned out- ordered to leave, so that the town would not have to support them. Fourteen-year-old Amos, Jr. went to nearby Hadley, 13-year-old Asaph was placed by the town's Overseers of the Poor in an apprenticeship in Connecticut, Agrippa, age nine, was sent to be fostered by friends of the Hulls in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and Margaret, age 7, stayed in Northampton, but it is unknown whether she was allowed to live with her mother. Bathsheba and Margaret moved to Springfield in 1768, but were warned out and moved to Stockbridge without Lee. On March 24, 1783, Margaret married Cesar Freeman of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The couple lived in Stockbridge in the 1790s, and might have had three children.
Sources Consulted
"Extended Biographies of Both Enslaved People and Free Black People" in the "Slavery Research Project" of Historic Northampton (Massachusetts), Slavery Research Project