Jonathan Hoyt had been captured during the 1704 raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts. After he was redeemed, he served as a scout and became an officer in the military, seeing action locally in 1746 and 1747. He had five children who lived to adulthood.
Jonathan enslaved a man named Caesar whom he had baptized in 1741. He might have rented out Caesar to at least one other person in town.
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