Goffy

first name: Goffy
last name
gender: male
birth, death year: circa 1748 , --
first, last year in records: --, --
confidence level: confirmed identity
freed status (year freed): enslaved
enslaver(s): David Parsons;
location(s): Amherst, MA
place of origin: Amherst, MA

Bio

Goffy's parents, Rose and Pompey, were enslaved by the Rev. David Parsons of Amherst, Massachusetts and likely lived in Chicopee, Massachusetts before that. Church records show that Pompey was admitted to membership in the Amherst church in 1758 via a transfer letter from a church there.

Sources Consulted
Black Families in Hampden County, Massachusetts, Joseph Carvalho III, 2011, p. 286