Jepthah Pharaoh

first name
Jepthah
last name
Pharaoh
gender
male
birth, death year
circa 1775 , circa 1840
first, last year in records
--, --
confidence level
confirmed identity
freed status (year freed)
unknown
enslaver(s)
location(s)
Amherst, MA  
place of origin

Bio

Jepthah lived in Amherst, Massachusetts and was married to Margaret Sash, who was Indigenous. They worked for, and perhaps lived with, General Ebenezer Mattoon. Jepthah was his valet and usually worked in uniform. The Pharaohs had five children- Sylvia, born about 1797; Dolly T., born circa 1808; Margaret Sash, born about 1812; Adaline, born about 1814; and William, born in 1816.

Sources Consulted
History of the Black Population of Amherst, Massachusetts, James Avery Smith, 1999, pp.108 & 109