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Negro Girl

first name
last name
gender
female
birth, death year
-- , --
first, last year in records
1757, 1757
confidence level
only enslaver known
freed status (year freed)
enslaved
enslaver(s)
Williams, Thomas;
location(s)
Deerfield, MA  
place of origin

Bio

Dr. Thomas Williams of Deerfield, Massachusetts mentioned in a 1757 letter "our poor Negro Girl." She was seriously ill and he described her symptoms and treatments.

Primary Source Entries for Negro Girl

Entry Source Vol Name Date entry id
• our poor Negro Girl is yet living after 36 days confinement with ye Slow fever; her case Appears as yet very dubious, her blisters much canker'd, tumified, & threaten a Mortification, thro the Acrid, putred, & Alkaline State of her blood, & Medicines have not (nor ever had in my practice) much sensible effect upon that Nation. Dr. Thomas Williams Letter to his Father-in-Law Single 1757 Aug 23 915

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